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Veeam Backup & Replication v12.3: Configure, Manage, and Recover

H41HNS

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    Course ID

    H41HNS

    Duration

    4 days

    Format

    ILT, VILT

    Overview

    Veeam® Backup & Replication™ v12.3: Configure, Manage, and Recover is a technical course focused on teaching IT professionals the skills to configure, manage, and support a Veeam Backup & Replication v12.3 solution. With extensive hands-on labs, the class promotes situational resiliency in responding to recovery scenarios and enables administrators and engineers to effectively protect and manage data in an ever-changing technical and business environment, bringing tangible benefits to today’s businesses.


    This course is based on Veeam Backup & Replication v12.3, part of Veeam Data Platform, and is approximately 60% theory and 40% hands-on labs.

    Course ID

    H41HNS

    Duration

    4 days

    Format

    ILT, VILT

    Audience

    This course is ideal for anyone responsible for configuring, managing, or supporting a Veeam Backup & Replication v12.3 environment.

    Prerequisites

    Before taking this course, you should:

    • Have fundamental IT experience working with networking, servers, storage, cloud, virtualization, and operating systems.
    • Be familiar with the core fundamental concepts of Veeam Backup & Replication through hands-on experience.

    Objectives

    After completing this course, you should be able to:

    • Describe Veeam security concepts
    • Given a scenario, configure a backup job and a backup copy job
    • Explain network-attached storage (NAS) backups and configuration
    • Describe Veeam’s replication capabilities
    • Determine appropriate use case for backups, replicas, and/or continuous data protection
    • Configure backup infrastructure components, including proxy and repository servers
    • Given a scenario, evaluate when and how to apply immutability settings
    • Given a scenario, recover data from backups

    Certifications and related exams

    Completion of this course satisfies the prerequisite for taking the Veeam Certified Engineer (VMCE™) v12 exam.


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    Course outline

    Module 1: Data Protection Strategies

    • Review of key data protection strategies that ensure the safety of your data

    Module 2: Analysis of Risks to Data

    • Explore different risk scenarios, what risks do we face daily within our environment?

    Module 3: What is Protected?

    • Review of Veeam Data Platform and introduction to the class scenario

    Module 4: Security and Protection Considerations


    • Describe strategies and tools to secure the Veeam backup server to avoid unauthorized access and data leaks

    Module 5: Protecting Workloads

    • Efficiently protect VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines based on well-defined SLAs through the creation of backup jobs

    Module 6: Deploying Agents

    • Identify the use of protection groups to automate the installation of Veeam Agents and protecting workloads with agent backup jobs

    Module 7: Unstructured Data Backup

    • List required components and features available to protect unstructured data

    Module 8: Optimizing Your Backups

    • Analyze features and settings that allow backup storage optimization, faster backups, and data consistency

    Module 9: Immutability and Hardened Repositories

    • Describe backup data protection mechanisms to avoid premature deletion and unwanted modifications
    • Identify characteristics and deployment steps of Linux Hardened Repositories to achieve backup data immutability

    Module 10: Backup Infrastructure Optimization

    • List deployment options and additional settings to improve general backup solution performance

    Module 11: Replication

    • Describe use cases, architectures and features of replication jobs and continuous data protection (CDP) policies

    Module 12: Backup Copy Jobs

    • Ensure recoverability and adhere to the 3-2-1 Rule with backup copy jobs

    Module 13: Long-term Retention

    • List different mechanisms for data archiving, including grandfather-father-son retention policies

    Module 14: Scale-out Backup Repository™

    • Describe architecture, placement policies, data tiers, and management of scale-out backup repositories

    Module 15: Move and Copy Backups with VeeaMover

    • Identify use cases for virtual machine and backup migrations with VeeaMover

    Module 16: Recovery Verification

    • Create automated tests to ensure recoverability from backups and replicas

    Module 17: Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager

    • Describe the use cases for Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager

    Module 18: Incident Response Planning

    • Integrating Veeam Backup and Replication into your incident response plan

    Module 19: Advanced Recovery Features

    • Explore some more in-depth recovery features of Veeam Backup and Replication

    Module 20: Selecting the Ideal Recovery Method

    • What are the implications of different recovery methods and selecting the correct recovery method?

    Module 21: Enacting a Recovery

    • Get practice in recovering different recovery types with a variety of data types

    Module 22: Malware Detection

    • Using Veeam’s malware detection capabilities

    odule 23: Post-incident Processes

    • Investigate post-incident activities

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    Lab outline

    Lab 1: Secure Veeam Backup Server

    • Lab 1.1: Secure the Veeam backup server

    Lab 2: Protect Virtual Machines


    • Lab 2.1: Add the virtual infrastructure to the Veeam Backup & Replication inventory
    • Lab 2.2: Protect virtual workloads

    Lab 3: Veeam Agent Backup Capabilities


    • Lab 3.1: Automate deployment of Veeam Agents
    • Lab 3.2: Protect physical workloads

    Lab 4: Unstructured Data Backup Capabilities


    • Lab 4.1: Prepare Veeam infrastructure for file share backups
    • Lab 4.2: Protect file share workloads

    Lab 5: Backup Infrastructure Optimization


    • Lab 5.1: Deploy a dedicated VMware backup proxy
    • Lab 5.2: Deploy a Veeam Hardened Repository
    • Lab 5.3: Deploy immutable object storage

    Lab 6: Second Site Backup and Backup Management


    • Lab 6.1: Create a backup copy job
    • Lab 6.2: Create a Scale-out Backup Repository (SOBR)
    • Lab 6.3: Create a dynamic backup job
    • Lab 6.4: Migrate virtual machine backups to another job

    Lab 7: Building Replication Capabilities


    • Lab 7.1: Prepare Veeam infrastructure for virtual machine replication
    • Lab 7.2: Working with replication jobs
    • Lab 7.3: Working with CDP policies

    Lab 8: Testing Virtual Machine Backups


    • Lab 8.1: Create a SureBackup job to verify backups
    • Lab 8.2: Create a SureBackup job to verify replicas

    Lab 9: Working with Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager


    • Lab 9.1: Connect the backup server with Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager
    • Lab 9.2: Decrypt an imported encrypted file
    • Lab 9.3: Create a restore operator user

    Lab 10: Application Items Recovery


    • Lab 10.1: Perform a Microsoft SQL Server instant database recovery
    • Lab 10.2: Restore an Active Directory user

    Lab 11: Recovering a Guest OS File


    • Lab 11.1: Restore a guest operating system file
    • Lab 11.2: Restore a guest operating system file with disk publishing

    Lab 12: Full Virtual Machines Recovery


    • Lab 12.1: Recover a virtual machine with Instant Recovery
    • Lab 12.2: Recover a virtual machine with full VM recovery and quick rollback

    Lab 13: Restore a Physical Machine from an Agent backup

    • Lab 13.1: Perform a bare metal recovery of a Windows physical machine from an Agent backup
    • Lab 13.2: Perform an instant VM recovery of a Linux physical machine from an Agent backup

    Lab 14: Restore from a Replica


    • Lab 14.1: Disaster failover to a VMware vSphere® replica and failback to production
    • Lab 14.2: Working with replica failover plans
    • Lab 14.3: Planned failover to a Microsoft Hyper-V replica

    Lab 15: Restore from a File Share Backup


    • Lab 15.1: Recover a file share folder from backup
    • Lab 15.2: Recover an entire file share with instant file share recovery

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