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Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication 10

By : Chris Childerhose
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Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication 10

By: Chris Childerhose

Overview of this book

Veeam is one of the leading modern data protection solutions, and mastering this technology can help you to protect your virtual environments effectively. This book guides you through implementing modern data protection solutions for your cloud and virtual infrastructure with Veeam. You will even gain in-depth knowledge of advanced concepts such as DataLabs, cloud backup and recovery, Instant VM Recovery, and Veeam ONE. This book starts by taking you through Veeam essentials, including installation, best practices, and optimizations for Veeam Backup & Replication. You'll get to grips with the 3-2-1 rule to safeguard data along with understanding how to set up a backup server, proxies, repositories, and more. Later chapters go on to cover a powerful feature of Veeam 10 – NAS backup. As you progress, you'll learn about scale-out Repositories and best practices for creating them. In the concluding chapters, you'll explore the new proxy option available in both Linux and Windows. Finally, you'll discover advanced topics such as DataLabs, cloud backup and recovery, Instant VM Recovery, and Veeam ONE. By the end of this book, you will be equipped with the skills you need to implement Veeam Backup & Replication for your environment and disaster recovery.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Section 1: Installation – Best Practices and Optimizations
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Section 2: Storage – NAS Backup, Linux, SOBR, and OBS
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Section 3: DataLabs, Cloud Backup, and Veeam ONE

Discovering the requirements and prerequisites for Instant VM Recovery

There are a few components from Veeam Backup & Replication that are necessary to take into account. Storage space also needs to be considered:

  • vPower NFS service: This service should be installed on a Windows server, which allows it to act as an NFS Server for mounting the backup files for the Instant VM Recovery process.
  • Disk space for cache folder: Instant VM Recovery requires additional free space for the cache folder (non-persistent data, at least 10 GB recommended).
  • Production storage: If you are going to use Storage vMotion or Quick Migration, then you will need enough storage for the VM to restore based on the size of the VMDK files.

Instant VM Recovery's main component is the Veeam vPower NFS service since it performs the bulk of the workload during the entire process. As noted previously, this is the Windows service that gets installed on any server to allow it to act as...