Veeam Availability Suite - Configuration and Management

This Veeam Availability Suite - Configuration and Management training course is focused on teaching IT professionals the skills to configure, manage and support a Veeam Availability Suite solution.

With extensive hands-on-labs, the class enables administrators and engineers to effectively manage data in an ever-changing technical and business environment, bringing tangible benefit to businesses in the digital world.

Objectives:

• Describe Veeam Availability Suite components usage scenarios and relevance to their own environment.
• Effectively manage data availability in on-site, off-site, cloud and hybrid environments.
• Ensure both Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) are met.
• Install and configure Veeam Availability Suite into their environment, ensuring data is protected effectively.
• Adapt with an organization’s evolving technical, business and regulatory needs.
• Ensure recovery is possible, effective, efficient, secure and compliant with business and legal requirements.
• Provide visibility of the business data assets, and produce effective reports and dashboards to monitor performance and risks.
• Conduct basic troubleshooting and analysis of their Veeam Availability Suite environment.
   

Course Agenda:

• Introduction
• Describe RTOs and RPOs, what they mean for your business, how to manage and monitor performance against them
• The 3-2-1 Rule and its importance in formulating a successful backup strategy
• Identify key Veeam Availability Suite components and describe their usage scenarios
• Building Backup Capabilities
• Backup methods, the appropriate use cases and impact on underlying file systems
• Create, modify, optimize and delete backup jobs, including NAS Backup jobs. Explore different tools and methods, such as BitLooker and Deduplication, to maximize environment performance
• Global Settings and their usage to prevent production performance bottlenecks, encrypt network traffic data and control network jurisdiction
• Restoring from Backup
• Identify and describe the different restore tools and their features. Ensure you have the confidence to use the correct restore tool at the right time
• Using Secure Restore to prevent the restoration of malware
• Disaster recovery from backup, respond accordingly to a variety of real-world recovery scenarios
• Backup Copy Jobs
• Simple vs Advanced Backup Copy Jobs, how to create and modify them using best practices to ensure efficient recovery
• Utilizing tape jobs, how to create and modify
• Replication
• Identify and describe the options available for replication, the use cases and impacts of using
• Create, modify and delete replication jobs, outline considerations to ensure success
• Failover
• Identify and describe in detail, failover features and the appropriate usage
• Develop, prepare and test failover plans to ensure recovery
• Disaster recovery from replica, respond accordingly to a variety of real-world recovery scenarios
• Advanced Repository Capabilities
• Ensure efficiency by being able to select appropriate transport modes while being aware of the impact of various backup functions on the infrastructure
• Ensure scalability by integrating off-site S3 storage
• Ensure compatibility with existing deduplication appliances
• Testing Backup and Replication
• Testing backups and replicas to ensure you can recover, what you need, when you need to
• Configure Veeam Data Labs and setup sandbox environments based on backup, replicas and storage snapshots
• Using Veeam Data Labs Staged Restore to manage and comply with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) legislation before releasing restores to production
• Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager
• Manage multiple Veeam Backup & Replication installations from a single web console, maintaining a view of your entire virtual environment, ensuring data protection of ROBO and Enterprise environments.
• Create user and group roles, delegate workloads whilst maintaining data control
• Enable encryption password loss protection, helping to restore encrypted data in case of lost or forgotten encryption passwords
• Veeam ONE
• Monitor your Virtual, Physical and Cloud environments with Veeam ONE™ and assess the different views available
• Configure Veeam ONE for your specific technical and business requirements, describe the alarm options available and how to customize their usage
• Set up, use and customize Veeam ONE Reporter, creating the reports and dashboards you require technically and for the business
• Support
• Locate, migrate or restore backup configuration
• Identify and locate appropriate support resources
• Troubleshooting methodology to identify, isolate and remediate support issues