Course
Digicomp Code VMCE13
Veeam Backup & Replication: Configure, Manage, and Recover v13 («VMCE13»)
Course facts
- Articulating Veeam’s data protection strategy
- Explaining the role of each of Veeam’s core components
- Configuring and managing the Veeam Software Appliance
- Configuring a backup job and a backup copy job in a given scenario
- Protecting physical servers with Veeam agents
- Configuring unstructured data backup jobs (NAS/SMB shares, etc.)
- Describing Veeam’s replication capabilities
- Determining appropriate use case for backups, replicas and continuous data protection
- Ensuring backup recoverability by leveraging SureBackup and immutable repositories
- Describing Veeam security concepts and how to implement within the product
- Configuring malware detection and explain how to remediate
- Recovering data from backups for VMs, agents and applications in a given scenario
- Articulating the enterprise products Veeam has developed plug-ins for
- Describing how to monitoring, reporting and alerting function
- Implementing the enterprise manager
- Explaining how to perform basic troubleshooting procedures and how to work with support
1 Data Protection Strategies
- Review of key data protection strategies that ensure the safety of your data
2 Analysis of risks to data
- Explore different risk scenarios
- What risks do we face daily within our environment?
3 What is protected?
- Review of Veeam Data Platform and introduction to the class scenario
4 Security and protection considerations
- Describe strategies and tools to secure the Veeam backup server to avoid unauthorized access and data leaks
5 Protecting workloads
- Efficiently protect VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines based on well-defined SLAs through the creation of backup jobs
6 Deploying agents
- Identify the use of protection groups to automate the installation of Veeam Agents and protect workloads with agent backup jobs
7 Unstructured data backup
- List required components and features available to protect unstructured data
8 Optimizing your backups
- Analyze features and settings that allow backup storage optimization, faster backups and data consistency
9 Backup copy jobs
- Ensure recoverability and adhere to the 3-2-1 Rule with backup copy jobs
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
11 Backup infrastructure optimization
- List deployment options and additional settings to improve general backup solution performance
12 Replication
- Describe use cases, architectures and features of replication jobs and continuous data protection (CDP) policies
13 Long-term retention
- List different mechanisms for data archiving, including grandfather-father-son retention policies
14 Scale-out Backup Repository™
- Describe architecture, placement policies, data tiers and management of Scale-out Backup Repositories
15 Move and copy backups with VeeaMover
- Identify use cases for virtual machine and backup migrations with VeeaMover
16 Recovery verification
- Create automated tests to ensure recoverability from backups and replicas
17 Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager
- Describe the use cases for Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager
18 Incident Response Planning
- Integrating Veeam Backup and Replication into your incident response plan
19 Advanced recovery features
- Explore some more in-depth recovery features of Veeam Backup and Replication
20 Selecting the ideal recovery method
- What are the implications of different recovery methods and selecting the correct recovery method
21 Enacting a recovery
- Get practice in recovering different recovery types with a variety of data types
22 Malware Detection
- Using Veeam’s malware detection capabilities
23 Post-incident processes
- Investigate post-incident activities
24 Enterprise Plugins
- Learn which plug-ins Veeam currently supports and how they work
25 Monitoring, alerting and reporting
- Discover how to run reports and understand backup job status summaries
26 Troubleshooting
- Understand the basics of troubleshooting Veeam issues and how to resolve with support
27 Veeam Calculators
- Where to find them and an intro on how to utilize
Theory/Labs: 60/40
This course is suitable for anyone responsible for configuring, managing, or supporting a Veeam Backup & Replication v13 environment.
It is also ideal for IT professionals across various roles, including backup administrators, disaster recovery specialists, system engineers, technical support staff, IT administrators, cloud administrators, cybersecurity professionals, compliance officers, monitoring specialists, reporting analysts, and security teams – reflecting the broad applicability of Veeam University PRO trainings.
Participants 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.
VMCE is the foundational training required to qualify for the upcoming VMCE-E certification. To progress to this next-level Veeam certification, candidates must complete the designated courses in «Veeam Backup & Replication», «Veeam Data Platform: Monitor, Manage, Analyze (Veeam ONE)», and «Veeam Data Platform: Scale, Automate, Secure (Veeam Recovery Orchestrator)».
Further information can be found here on the Veeam website.