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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

Exploring the migration and cancelation steps for recovery

Now that we have gone through the Instant VM Recovery wizard so that we can begin the recovery process, we can see that the job is running and showing a status of Mounted. At this point, we can choose what to do with the VM in regards to keeping it in production or canceling the restore so that we can remove it:

Figure 9.17 – Instant VM Recovery job in running state

When you select the job in the right-hand pane, the toolbar changes to give you four options:

  • Migrate to production: This will launch a wizard that will start Quick Migration of the VM to move it to production.
  • Open VM Console: This launches the VM console so that you can log into the VM and check things before migrating to production. This option will prompt you for your vCenter credentials.
  • Stop Publishing: As its name suggests, it will unmount the datastore, remove the VM, and stop the Instant VM Recovery job to...