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Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication - Third Edition

By : Chris Childerhose
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Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication - Third Edition

By: Chris Childerhose

Overview of this book

Veeam is one of the leading modern data protection solutions, making it a necessary skill for anyone responsible for backing up virtual environments. This new edition of Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication is revised and updated to cover Veeam version 12. This edition covers some new features added to the application, such as VeeaMover, Per Machine Backup chains, and MFA on the console. The book guides you through implementing modern data protection solutions for your cloud and virtual infrastructure with Veeam while helping you master advanced concepts such as Continuous Data Protection (CDP), extended object storage support, VeeaMover, and security settings. You’ll dive deep into other new features as well, such as Direct to Object storage, Object to Tape and learn about CDP from a service provider perspective with Veeam Cloud Connect (VCC). By the end of this Veeam book, you'll be able to successfully implement Veeam Backup & Replication to secure your environment and enable disaster recovery.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Part 1: Installation – Best Practices, Core Architecture, and Other Enhancements
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Part 2: Security, Object Storage Direct, CDP, and Cloud Connect

Discovering CDP to vCD in Veeam Cloud Connect

Continuous Data Protection (CDP) is a way for you to protect your virtual machines with a to-the-second Recovery Time Objective (RTO) based on your required Service-Level Agreement (SLA). It will also provide the minimum RTO for your mission-critical servers because the replica VMs created in the process can be powered up at any time.

Four components make up the CDP infrastructure, and they are the following:

  • Backup Server – The backup server is the CDP coordinator that ensures things are communicating and working between the CDP proxy servers and the VMware hosts
  • CDP Proxy – The CDP proxy replicates the VMs from the source host to the destination host
  • Source and Target Hosts – There is a source host of the VM you want to protect with CDP and the target host, which is where the replica VM will be created
  • I/O Filters – Each host in both the source and target cluster requires an I/O filter...