Overview:

The Veeam® Availability Suite™ v11a: Configuration and Management training course is a three-day, technical deep dive focused on teaching IT professionals the skills to configure, manage and support a Veeam Availability Suite v11a 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. This course is based on Veeam Availability Suite v11a.

Duration:  03 day (24 hours)

Objectives:

After completing this course, attendees should be able to:

• Describe Veeam Availability Suite components usage scenarios and relevance to your 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.
• Configure Veeam Availability Suite to ensure data is protected effectively.
• Adapt with an organization’s evolving technical and business data protection needs.
• Ensure recovery is possible, effective, efficient, secure and compliant with business requirements.
• Provide visibility of the business data assets, reports and dashboards to monitor performance and risks

Intended Audience:

This course is suitable for anyone responsible for configuring, managing or supporting with Veeam Availability Suite v11a environment.

Prerequisites:

• Students should be experienced professionals with solid knowledge of servers, storage, networking and virtualization.
• To prepare for the class, students should complete the Veeam Sales Professional (VMSP) and Veeam Technical Sales Professional (VMTSP) certifications in the ProPartner website. Or the Instructor will have a basic knowledge test right before the learning modules in the LMS system

 Course outlines:

1.      Introduction

• Describe RTOs and RPOs, what they mean for your business, how to manage and monitor performance against them
• The 3-2-1-0 Rule and its importance in formulating a successful backup strategy
• Identify key Veeam Availability Suite components and describe their usage scenarios and deployment types Learning Path

2.      Building backup capabilities

• Backup methods, the appropriate use cases and impact on underlying file systems
• Create, modify, optimize and delete backup jobs, including Agents and NAS Backup jobs. Explore different tools and methods to maximize environment performance
• Ensure efficiency by being able to select appropriate transport modes while being aware of the impact of various backup functions on the infrastructure

3.      Building replication capabilities

• Identify and describe the options available for replication and impacts of using them
• Create and modify replication jobs, outline considerations to ensure success
• Introduce the new Continuous Data Protection (CDP) policy.

4.      Secondary backups

• Simple vs. advanced backup copy jobs, how to create and modify them using best practices to ensure efficient recovery
• Discuss using tapes for backups

5.      Advanced repository capabilities

• Ensure repository scalability using a capability such as SOBR on-premises and off-site including integration with cloud storage
• Ensure compatibility with existing deduplication appliances
• Introduce the new hardened repository

6.      Protecting data in the cloud

• Review how Veeam can protect the data of a cloud native application
• Review how Veeam Cloud Connect enables you to take advantage of cloud services built on Veeam
• Review how Veeam can be used to protect your Office 365 data

8.      Recovery from replica

• Identify and describe in detail, failover features and the appropriate usage
• Develop, prepare and test failover plans to ensure recovery
• Disaster recovery from replica to meet a variety of real-world recovery needs

9.      Testing backup and replication

• Testing backups and replicas to ensure you can recover, what you need, when you need to
• Configure and setup virtual sandbox environments based on backup, replicas and storage snapshots

10.      Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager and Veeam ONE

• Introduce the concept of monitoring your virtual, physical and cloud environments with Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager and Veeam ONE™

11.      Configuration backup

• Locate, migrate or restore backup configuration