Learning Veeam® Backup & Replication for VMware vSphere - Softcover

Mohn, Christian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1782174176 ISBN 13: 9781782174172

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

Leverage the capabilities of Veeam Backup & Replication to provide faster, reliable, and robust backup and restore solutions for virtual, on-premise, and cloud-based workloads

Key Features

• Explore Veeam Backup & Replication v7 infrastructure and its components
• Create backup, replication, and restore strategies to protect your most valuable asset - data
• Explore advanced features like off-site replication and tape retention

Book Description

Veeam Backup & Replication for VMware is a backup solution that provides data protection for virtualized VMware vSphere environments. This powerful and easy-to-use solution ensures data protection without compromising on the flexibility that virtualization provides.

This book starts with an introduction to Veeam Backup & Replication, and takes you through the prerequisites and deployment steps needed to get the required infrastructure in place. You’ll then delve into its features and capabilities, and discover tips for performing everyday administrative tasks easily. This book is a complete hands-on guide to installing, configuring, and managing a backup infrastructure.

By the end of this book, you’ll be able to confidently work with Veeam Backup & Replication v7, right from its installation and configuration to managing complexity and improving its usability.

What you will learn

• Install and manage Veeam Backup & Replication v7 infrastructure
• Get to grips with backing up and restoring data in virtual environments
• Discover how agentless backups work and how they help protect mission-critical data
• Explore WAN acceleration for speedy backup to remote locations
• Master the 3-2-1 rule for storing backups
• Use single-item restores to accelerate the recovery process
• Understand and configure the different backup and replication options available in Veeam

Who this book is for

If you are a VMware vSphere administrator looking to protect your infrastructure by utilizing the world's leading modern data protection solution, specifically designed for virtual environments, this Veeam book is for you. A good understanding of VMware vSphere architecture is expected, but prior knowledge of Veeam Backup & Replication is not required.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Veeam® Backup & Replication v7 for VMware
2. Configuring Backups
3. Restoring Data
4. Replicating Virtual Machines
5. Other Features

About this title

About the Author

Christian Mohn

Christian Mohn is a VMware vExpert, an IT industry veteran, and a blogger with more than 16 years of realworld experience. Christian currently works as a virtualization architect for Norway's largest IT company EVRY, where he designs and implements virtualization solutions for enterprise clients as well as serves as the Tech Champion for server virtualization. Prior to joining EVRY, he was the Infrastructure Manager for a large Norwegian shipping company, where he introduced virtualization throughout the organization. He is also one of the hosts of the vSoup Virtualization Podcast and is well known for his contributions to the virtualization community through his virtualization blog vNinja.net. Christian lives in Bergen, Norway, with his wife and two kids. He was one of the technical reviewers of VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook, Abhilash GB, Packt Publishing, and wrote the foreword for Building EndUser Computing Solutions with VMware View, Mike Laverick and Barry Coombs, Lulu. In addition to this, he has written whitepapers and held several technical webinars for Veeam®.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1782174176
• ISBN 13: 9781782174172
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 110