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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 Veeam ONE for troubleshooting

When it comes to troubleshooting your environment, whether it be the virtual infrastructure or backups, this is where Veeam ONE shines. Veeam ONE uses Signatures, which are related to specific issues in their Knowledge Base, along with Alarms to alert you to potential problems, referred to as Veeam Intelligent Diagnostics. Alarms are grouped based on VMware, Hyper-V, and Backup & Replication in the Alarm Management tab:

Figure 10.31 – Alarm Management tab – Alarm groupings

Alarms are triggered based on events and can alert you in various ways, such as via email (SMTP), SNMP, or running a script. You can also turn on automation so that Veeam ONE can fix the issue for you based on the rules you create. An example of this can be found under the VMware | Virtual Machine section for alarms, where there is an alarm called VM with no backup. This alarm checks all virtual machines in your infrastructure, and...