Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication

Secure backup with Veeam 11 for defending your data and accelerating your data protection strategy, 2nd Edition

Chris Childerhose

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781803234182
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Informatik
• Subtopic: Cybersicherheit

Protect your cloud, virtual, and on-premises environments by implementing Veeam's powerful backup and replication technology

Key Features

• Gain in-depth knowledge of CDP and hardened repositories that you can use in your virtual environment
• Explore Veeam's monitoring and reporting utility - Veeam ONE - along with Linux proxy enhancements
• Work with the new Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator (Orchestrator) for testing failovers and backups

Book Description

Veeam is one of the leading modern data protection solutions, making it a necessary skill for anyone responsible for securing virtual environments. This revised second edition of Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication is updated to cover Veeam version 11. The book guides you through implementing modern data protection solutions for your cloud and virtual infrastructure with Veeam, all while helping you master advanced concepts such as Continuous Data Protection (CDP), extended object storage support, Veeam ONE enhancements, and Orchestrator.

Starting with Veeam essentials, including installation, best practices, and optimizations for Veeam Backup & Replication, you'll get to grips with the 3-2-1-1-0 rule to safeguard data. You'll understand how to set up a backup server, proxies, repositories, and more and then advance to cover a powerful feature of Veeam 11 – CDP. As you progress, you'll learn about immutability (also known as hardened repositories) and discover the best practices for creating them. Finally, you'll explore the new proxy option available in Linux and become well-versed with advanced topics such as extended object storage support, Veeam ONE enhancements, and Orchestrator.

By the end of this Veeam book, you'll be able to implement Veeam Backup & Replication for securing your environment and enabling disaster recovery.

What you will learn

• Discover the advanced concepts of Veeam Backup & Replication 11
• Master application optimization based on Veeam best practices
• Get to grips with configuring CDP and working with repositories and proxies
• Explore ways to protect your backups with immutable hardened repositories
• Understand the enhancements to backups, instant recovery, and Linux proxies
• Explore Veeam ONE enhancements
• Become well-versed in using Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator

Who this book is for

This Veeam backup book is for IT professionals who have intermediate to advanced-level knowledge of virtualization as well as backups and backup applications. Anyone who needs a reference guide for learning the advanced features of Veeam Backup & Replication and how they are used, including best practices and optimizations, will also find this book useful.

Section 1: Installation – Best Practices and Optimizations

The objective of this section is to teach you best practices and optimizations for installing and upgrading Veeam. This section will also introduce the 3-2-1-1-0 backup rule for safeguarding data. You will learn how to apply the best practices and optimizations to your installation of Veeam.

This section contains the following chapters:

• Chapter 1, Installing and Upgrading Veeam
• Chapter 2, The 3-2-1-1-0 Rule – Keeping Data Safe

Chapter 1: Installing and Upgrading Veeam

Veeam Backup & Replication v11a is part of Veeam Availability Suite, which is ready for the modern data center and allows you to back up all your workloads, including cloud, virtual, physical, and applications. It is simple yet flexible to meet your most challenging environment needs. This chapter will discuss how to install and upgrade the software, what components make up Veeam Backup & Replication v11a, and some best practices and optimizations. There will be practical examples throughout this chapter of optimizing specific elements that make up the Veeam environment. We will also touch on some websites, such as the Best Practices Guide for Veeam, among others, to give you resources to help set up Veeam in your environment. As they say about Veeam – "It Just Works."

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:

• Understanding the best practices and optimizations for Veeam installation
• How to configure and optimize proxy servers
• How to set up repository servers for success
• Understanding the scale-out backup repository
• Upgrading Veeam Backup & Replication to v11a

Technical requirements

To ensure a successful installation, you will require the following:

• You must have deployed a Windows 2019/2022 server with the necessary disk space to install the application (2008 R2 SP1 is also currently supported). Windows 10 and other modern Windows desktop operating systems are also supported.
• You must have downloaded the latest ISO file from www.veeam.com, which requires registration on the site and allows you to obtain a trial license. At the time of this writing, version 11.0.1.1261_20210923 is the current release.
• Veeam Best Practices website: https://bp.veeam.com/vbr/.
• Veeam Documentation website: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/overview.html?ver=110.

Understanding the best practices and optimizations for Veeam installation

The installation of Veeam Backup & Replication v11a is a straightforward process. Setting up Veeam, if not done right, can lead to components not working correctly and poor performance, among other things. However, if you set up Veeam correctly, it will protect your data and environment with minimal configuration. This section will go through the installation process and touch on the best practices and optimizations for your environment.

Installing Veeam Backup & Replication v11a

Before installing Veeam, you need to ensure that you have a server deployed, either Windows 2019 or 2022, with enough disk space for the installation.

Note

Veeam will configure the default backup repository on the drive with the most available disk space, whether that is the OS drive, Application drive, or Catalog drive.

The disk layout should be similar to the following:

• OS drive: This is where your operating system resides and should be used only for this.
• Application drive: This will be your application installation drive for Veeam and all its components.
• Catalog drive: Veeam uses a catalog that can generate around 10 GB of data per 100 VMs backed up with file indexes. If this will be a significant storage requirement for your deployment, it may be advisable to allocate the Catalog folder to a separate drive.

Once your server is ready and you have downloaded the ISO file and mounted it, follow these steps to install Veeam:

1. Run the setup.exe file on the mounted ISO drive:

Figure 1.1 - Main installation screen

2. Click on the Install button under the Veeam Backup & Replication 11a section on the left or the Install link on the right-hand side under Standalone components.
3. You will be prompted to install the Microsoft Visual C++ runtime. Click OK to proceed. Once you've installed it, you may be prompted to reboot your server. Click YES to proceed:

Figure 1.2 – Installing Microsoft Visual C++

The preceding screenshot shows the Visual C++ Redistributable installation request. The following screenshot shows the Reboot option once Visual C++ Redistributable has been installed:

Figure 1.3 – Reboot prompt after installing Microsoft Visual C++

Note

You may need to mount the ISO again after rebooting the server before proceeding.

4. At this point, you will see the License Agreement window, so you will need to select the two checkboxes to place a checkmark and then click Next to continue.
5. You will now need to provide a valid license file, whether it's been purchased or a trial; if you do not have this at this stage of the installation, you can click Next to continue, and Veeam will operate in the Community...