Veeam Backup & Replication v12.1: Configure, Manage, and Recover (VMCE)

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.

 

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

Prerequisites

• Students should have fundamental IT experience working with networking, servers, storage, cloud, virtualization and operating systems.

• To get the most out of this course, students should be familiar with the core fundamental concepts of Veeam Backup & Replication through hands-on experience.