Veeam Backup and Replication v12.1: Configure, Manage and Recover (VMCE12-1)

The Veeam® Backup & Replication™ v12.1: Configure, Manage and Recover training course is a four-day technical course focused on teaching IT professionals the skills to configure, manage and support a Veeam Backup & Replication v12.1 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 v12.1, part of Veeam Data Platform.

Audience:

This course is suitable for anyone responsible for configuring, managing or supporting a Veeam Backup & Replication v12.1 environment.

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.

Certification:

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

Objectives:

• After completing this course, attendees will 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

Course Contents:

• Data protection strategies
• Review of key data protection strategies that ensure the safety of your data.
• Risk scenarios
• Explore different risk scenarios, what risks do we face daily within our environment?
• Core components
• Review of Veeam Backup & Replication components required in most deployments, their purpose and key system requirements.
• Initial security considerations
• Describe strategies and tools to secure the Veeam backup server to avoid unauthorized access and data leaks.
• Virtual machine backup
• Efficiently protect VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines based on well-defined SLAs through the creation of backup jobs.
• Agent backup
• Identify the use of protection groups to automate the installation of Veeam Agents and protecting workloads with agent backup jobs.
• Unstructured data backup
• List required components and features available to protect unstructured data.
• Backup data optimizations
• Analyze features and settings that allow backup storage optimization, faster backups and data consistency.
• 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.
• Object storage
• Review why backing up to object storage, which object storage solutions are supported and considerations when using this type of repositories.
• Transport modes
• Analyze different ways data can be read from the production environment and their benefits and considerations.
• Backup copies
• Ensure recoverability and adhere to the 3-2-1 Rule with backup copy jobs.
• Scale-out Backup Repository™
• Describe architecture, placement policies, data tiers and management of Scale-out Backup Repositories.
• Moving or copying backups
• Identify use cases for workload and backup migrations with VeeaMover.
• Replication
• Describe use cases, architectures and features of replication jobs and continuous data protection (CDP) policies.
• Verifying recoverability
• Create automated tests to ensure recoverability from backups and replicas.
• Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager
• Describe the use cases for Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager.
• Incident Response Planning
• Integrating Veeam Backup and Replication into your incident response plan.
• Recovery scenarios and features
• What are the implications of different recovery methods and selecting the correct recovery method.
• Enacting a recovery
• Get practice in recovering different recovery types with a variety of data types.
• Veeam Data Platform
• Identify and explain the purpose of each core product within the Veeam Data Platform and articulate potential use cases for them.