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

H54GGS

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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