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

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

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