Veeam Certified Architect v11

Veeam Certified Architect is the highest level of Veeam technical certifications. Engineers who complete both Veeam Availability Suite v11: Configuration and Management and Veeam Backup & Replication V11: Architecture and Design programs (courses + exams) will be granted with the "Veeam Certified Architect" (VMCA) title by Veeam.

This Veeam Certified Architect course consists of the two courses which lead to VMCA status.

The Veeam® Availability Suite™ v11: 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 v11 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.

The two-day, Veeam® Backup & Replication™ v11: Architecture and Design training course, is focused on teaching IT professionals how to effectively architect a Veeam solution through attaining technical excellence following the Veeam Architecture Methodology used by Veeam’s own Solution Architects.

Audience

This course is suitable for anyone responsible for configuring, managing or supporting a Veeam Availability Suite v11 environment. This includes Senior Engineers and Architects responsible for creating architectures for Veeam environments.

Prerequisites

• Students should be experienced professionals with solid knowledge of servers, storage, networking and virtualization.
• To prepare for the class, Veeam Partners would benefit from completing the Veeam Sales Professional (VMSP) and Veeam Technical Sales Professional (VMTSP) certifications within the ProPartner website.
• Veeam customers would benefit from completing the free Veeam Availability Suite on-demand training on www.veeam.com.
•  Those who do not yet have any profound practical experience with Veeam need certain prior knowledge to attend the VMCE course, as this actually requires at least 6 months of professional practice with Veeam VAS as certification training!
• However, the necessary prior knowledge can be acquired here in the short term - ideally you should complete all modules: https://veeam.looop.co/workspace/37515.
• Due to time constraints, it is absolutely necessary to work through the labs quickly according to the written instructions in the Lab Guide - if the above-mentioned prerequisite practice is missing, at least the two following modules MUST be worked through, as otherwise working through the labs is hardly possible or only possible with great difficulty:
  • Installation: https://veeam.looop.co/topic/459643
  •  GUI: https://veeam.looop.co/topic/464315

Certification

VMCA status does not require a specific exam but is awarded to all participants who pass both the VMCE and VMCE-A exams.

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.
• Design and architect a Veeam solution in a real-world environment
• Describe best practices, review an existing infrastructure and assess business/project requirements
• Identify relevant infrastructure metrics and perform component (storage, CPU, memory) quantity sizing
• Provide implementation and testing guidelines in line with designs
• Innovatively address design challenges and pain points, matching appropriate Veeam Backup & Replication features with requirements

Extended Labs

The lab environment used in this course will be available for 10 days after course completion

Course Contents

Days 1-3: Veeam Availability Suite v11: 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