Veeam Certified Architect v11 (VMCE11-A)

This course is suitable for anyone responsible for configuring, managing or supporting a Veeam Availability Suite v10 environment. This includes System Administrators, Engineers and Architects responsible for multiple Veeam deployments as a professional services consultant or those within large, diverse clients providing centralized IT services to the wider business.

• After completing this course, attendees should be able to:
• 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.
• Accurately scope and size a technical environment, evaluating Veeam Availability Suite design decisions against current and future technical and business landscapes
• Demonstrate the value of a Veeam deployment to both internal and external clients, ensuring designs that maximise Return on Investment
• Guarantee and verify the recoverability of data to the business
• Optimize configurations, ensuring workload impact on network, cpu and storage resources is within acceptable levels for the business.
• Interrogate log files for detailed root cause analysis
  

Course Contents

Days 1-3: Veeam Availability Suite v10: Configuration and Management

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 and deployment types

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

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

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

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

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

Restoring from backup:

• Ensure you have the confidence to use the correct restore tool at the right time for restoring VMs, bare metal and individual content such as files and folders
• Utilize Secure Restore to prevent the restoration of malware
• Describe how to use Staged Restore to comply with things like General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) before releasing restores to production
• Identify, describe and utilize the different explores and instant recovery tools and features

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
  

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

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™

Configuration backup:
Locate, migrate or restore backup configuration

Days 4-5: Veeam Backup & Replication V11: Architecture and Design

Introduction:

• Review the architecture principles
• Explore what a successful architecture looks like
• Review Veeam’s architecture methodology
  

Discovery:

• Analyze the existing environment
• Uncover relevant infrastructure metrics
• Uncover assumptions and risks
• Identify complexity in the environment

Conceptual design:

• Review scenario and data from discovery phase
• Identify logical groups of objects that will share resources based on requirements
• Create a set of detailed tables of business and technical requirements, constraints, assumptions and risks
• Review infrastructure data with each product component in mind
• Create high level design and data flow
  

Logical design:

• Match critical components and features of VBR with requirements
• Create logical groupings
• Determine location of components and relationship to logical grouping
• Aggregate totals of component resources needed per logical grouping
• Calculate component (storage, CPU, memory) quantity sizing
  

Physical/tangible design:

• Convert the logical design into a physical design
• Physical hardware sizing
• Create a list of physical Veeam backup components
  

Implementation and Governance:

• Review physical design and implantation plan
• Review Veeam deployment hardening
• Describe the architect’s obligations to the implementation team
• Provide guidance on implementation specifics that relate to the design

Validation and Iteration:

• Provide framework for how to test the design
• Further develop the design according to a modification scenario