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Veeam Backup & Replication v13: Configure, Manage, and Recover

H54GGS

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Table of Contents

    Course ID

    H54GGS

    Duration

    4 days

    Format

    ILT/VILT

    Overview

    The Veeam® Backup & Replication™ v13: Configure, Manage, and Recover training course is a technical course focused on teaching IT professionals the skills to configure, manage and support a Veeam Backup & Replication v13 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 benefit to business in the digital world. This course is based on Veeam Backup & Replication v13, part of Veeam Data Platform.


    This course is approximately 60% lecture and 40% lab activities.

    Course ID

    H54GGS

    Duration

    4 days

    Format

    ILT/VILT

    Audience

    This course is suitable for anyone responsible for configuring, managing, or supporting a Veeam Backup & Replication v13 environment as well as IT professionals across various roles, including:

    • Backup administrators
    • Disaster recovery specialists
    • System engineers
    • Technical support staff
    • IT administrators
    • Cloud administrators
    • Cybersecurity professionals
    • Compliance officers
    • Monitoring specialists
    • Reporting analysts
    • Security teams

    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:

    • Articulate Veeam's data protection strategy
    • Explain the role of each of Veeam's core components
    • Configure and manage the Veeam Software Appliance
    • Given a scenario, configure a backup job, and backup copy job
    • Protect physical servers with Veeam agents
    • Configure unstructured data backup jobs (NAS/SMB shares, etc.)
    • Describe Veeam's replication capabilities
    • Determine appropriate use case for backups, replicas, and continuous data protection
    • Ensure backup recoverability by leveraging SureBackup and immutable repositories
    • Describe Veeam security concepts and how to implement within the product
    • Configure malware detection and explain how to remediate
    • Given a scenario, recover data from backups for VMs, agents and applications
    • Articulate the enterprise products Veeam has developed plug-ins for
    • Describe how monitoring, reporting, and alerting function
    • Implement the enterprise manager
    • Explain how to perform basic troubleshooting procedures and how to work with support

    Certifications and related exams

    This is one of the required courses for the following certification exam:

    • Veeam Certified Engineer + (VMCE+)
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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: Backup Copy Jobs


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

    Module 10: 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 11: Backup Infrastructure Optimization

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

    Module 12: Replication


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

    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

    Module 23: Post-Incident Processes

    • Investigate post-incident activities

    Module 24: Enterprise Plugins

    • Learn which plug-ins Veeam currently supports and how they work

    Module 25: Monitoring, Alerting, and Reporting

    • Discover how to run reports and understand backup job status summaries

    Module 26: Troubleshooting

    • Understand the basics of troubleshooting Veeam issues and how to resolve with support

    Module 27: Veeam Calculators

    • Where to find them and an intro on how to utilize

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    Lab outline

    Lab 1: Accessing Veeam Backup Software

    • Lab 1.1: Accessing Veeam Backup Console UI and Web UI
    • Lab 1.2: Configuring domain users

    Lab 2: Securing Veeam Backup Server

    • Lab 2.1: Securing the Veeam backup server

    Lab 3: Repository Setup and Configuration

    • Lab 3.1: Creating a scale-out backup repository

    Lab 4: Protecting Virtual Machines


    • Lab 4.1: Adding servers to Veeam backup software
    • Lab 4.2: Creating Hyper-V backup jobs

    Lab 5: Veeam Agent Backup Capabilities


    • Lab 5.1: Automating the deployment of Veeam Agent
    • Lab 5.2: Protecting physical workloads

    Lab 6: Unstructured Data Backup Capabilities

    • Lab 6.1: Preparing Veeam infrastructure for file share backups
    • Lab 6.2: Protecting file share workloads

    Lab 7: Second Site Backup and Backup Management


    • Lab 7.1: Creating an object storage repository via PowerShell
    • Lab 7.2: Creating a backup copy job
    • Lab 7.3: Exporting backups to another repository

    Lab 8: Building Replication Capabilities

    • Lab 8.1: Working with replication jobs

    Lab 9: Configuring Malware Detection Options

    • Lab 9.1: Configuring malware detection options

    Lab 10: Immutable Backup Repositories


    • Lab 10.1: Deploying a Veeam hardened repo
    • Lab 10.2: Deploying an immutable object storage
    • Lab 10.3: Creating an immutable scale-out backup repository (SOBR)

    Lab 11: Testing Virtual Machine Backups

    • Lab 11.1: Create a SureBackup job to verify backups

    Lab 12: Application Items Recovery


    • Lab 12.1: Performing a Microsoft SQL Server instant database recovery
    • Lab 12.2: Restoring an active directory user

    Lab 13: Recovering a Guest OS File


    • Lab 13.1: Restoring a guest operating system file
    • Lab 13.2: Restoring a guest operating system file with disk publishing

    Lab 14: Full Virtual Machines Recovery

    • Lab 14.1: Recovering a virtual machine with Instant Recovery
    • Lab 14.2: Recovering a virtual machine with full VM recovery and quick rollback

    Lab 15: Restoring a Physical Machine from an Agent Backup


    • Lab 15.1: Performing a bare metal recovery of a Windows physical machine from an Agent backup
    • Lab 15.2: Performing an instant VM recovery of a Linux physical machine from an Agent backup

    Lab 16: Restoring from a Replica

    • Lab 16.1: Disaster failover and failback to production
    • Lab 16.2: Working with replica failover plans
    • Lab 16.3: Executing a planned failover

    Lab 17: Restoring from a File Share Backup


    • Lab 17.1: Recovering a file share folder from backup
    • Lab 17.2: Restoring an entire file share with instant file share recovery

    Lab 18: Working with Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager


    • Lab 18.1: Connecting the backup server with Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager
    • Lab 18.2: Decrypting an imported encrypted file
    • Lab 18.3: Creating a restore operator user

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