Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication. E-Book

Chris Childerhose

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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Beschreibung

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.

Leseprobe

Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication

Design and deploy a secure and resilient Veeam 12 platform using best practices

Chris Childerhose

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Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication

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Contributors

About the author

Chris Childerhose is an information technology professional with 27+ years of experience in network/systems architecture and design, network and systems administration, and technical support. He is a Veeam Vanguard/Legend and is a Veeam Certified Architect and Veeam Certified Engineer. He also has the following certifications: vExpert, Tanzu Vanguard, AWS Community Builder, VCAP-DCA, VCP-DCV, and MCITP. He currently works for ThinkOn as the lead infrastructure architect, where he designs the infrastructure for all client services offered. Chris is also an avid blogger on all things virtual, focusing on Veeam and Vmware, and is also the author of the first and second editions of Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication.

Writing a book is challenging and more rewarding than I could have ever imagined, but a third book is still quite a task. None of this would have been possible without my wife, Julie. She stood by me during every struggle and all my successes, including many nights of writing. She was someone I could talk to about my book and how things were going. She always pushes me, and I will be forever thankful for this.

I’m eternally grateful to Matt Crape and Rick Vanover from Veeam, who took the time to do a technical review of my third book and all of my chapters when they didn’t have to. They were great at suggesting changes or edits and even contributed to chapters where necessary. I genuinely have no words to thank them for this amazing selflessness to help a fellow Veeamer on a third book about Veeam.

About the reviewer

Craig Dalrymple is a Scottish solutions architect at 11:11 Systems and is the co-leader/founder of the UK Veeam User Group. He has 25+ years of experience within the IT industry.

Table of Contents

Preface

Part 1: Installation – Best Practices, Core Architecture, and Other Enhancements

1

Installation – Best Practices and Optimizations

Technical requirements

Understanding the best practices and optimizations for Veeam installation

Installing Veeam Backup & Replication v12

Configuring and optimizing Proxy Servers

How to set up Repository Servers for success

Understanding the Scale-Out Backup Repository

VeeaMover

SOBR Rebalance

Upgrading Veeam Backup & Replication to v12

Summary

Further reading

2

Core Architecture Enhancements

Technical requirements

Introducing a PostgreSQL server for your database

Understanding per-VM backup changes

Learning about the Linux hardened repository option in the repository wizard

Exploring new Linux proxy roles

Summary

Further reading

3

Scale-Out Backup Repository – What’s New

Technical requirements

Understanding sending backup data direct to Object Storage with SOBR

Exploring VeeaMover and its benefits

Use cases for VeeaMover

Using SOBR Rebalance and exporting data

Exporting backups

Summary

Further reading

4

Tape Servers and Other Enhancements

Technical requirements

Understanding what is new with tape servers and object storage to tape

Using Linux for a tape server

Object storage to tape

NAS backup to tape and improved LTO9 support

Other enhancements – permissions, exporting, and exclusions

Summary

Further reading

Part 2: Security, Object Storage Direct, CDP, and Cloud Connect

5

Veeam’s New Enhanced Security Features

Technical requirements

Understanding MFA and gMSA support

Additional MFA settings

Benefits of using gMSAs

Understanding Linux – SSH or SUDO are not required

Discovering the new Auto-Logoff feature

Summary

Further reading

6

Object Storage – What’s New and Enhancements

Technical requirements

Understanding new direct-to-object storage and its use in SOBR

A standard repository backup job

SOBR backup job

Understanding GFS backups to object storage with immutability

Configuring a backup copy job with GFS retention to immutable object storage

Discovering third-party integrations within the console for Azure and Wasabi

Wasabi Object storage

Microsoft Azure Storage

Summary

Further reading

7

What’s New in NAS Backup

Technical requirements

Understanding NAS backup – archive copy mode and direct-to-object storage

Understanding NAS backup with immutability support

Discovering NFS backup publishing as an SMB share

Learning about health check features and the cloud helper appliance

The health check utility

The cloud helper appliance

Summary

Further reading

8

CDP and Veeam Cloud Connect

Technical requirements

Discovering CDP to vCD in Veeam Cloud Connect

Exploring CDP with vCD to vCD

Investigating Instant VM Recovery within Veeam Cloud Connect

Summary

Further reading

Index

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Preface

Veeam is one of the leading modern data protection solutions, and learning about this technology can help you 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-level concepts such as Continuous Data Protection (CDP) with Veeam Cloud Connect, Direct to Object storage, Instant Recovery, SOBR Rebalance, VeeaMover, and many core architecture changes.

Who this book is for

You will be a VMware administrator or backup administrator with some existing knowledge of Veeam and the topics covered in this book. You will know about some virtualization and backup concepts to understand what gets discussed in each chapter. Veeam is one of the leading modern data protection solutions, and learning about this technology will help you protect your environment. You might want to implement many of the topics discussed and possibly look into cloud providers to use Veeam Cloud Connect services.

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Installation – Best Practices and Optimizations, covers the upgrade and installation for Veeam Backup & Replication v12. You will learn how to set up things such as the backup server, proxies, repositories, and more. There will be a reference to the Veeam Best Practices site as well. Once installation and upgrade are covered, we will dive further into adding things such as repository servers, proxy servers, and more.

Chapter 2, Core Architecture Enhancements, covers many of the new core enhancements in the Veeam Backup & Replication v12 software. You will learn about the new database option to replace SQL Server: PostgreSQL. We will also look at the new per-VM backup chains, which will make management simpler and easier for troubleshooting. Finally, we will look at some new Linux features, such as a specific selection option for hardened repository and using Linux as a proxy.

Chapter 3, Scale-Out Backup Repository – What’s New, covers the scale-out backup repository (SOBR) and what Veeam has added to make management easier. You can go directly to object storage now as well as have multiple buckets per SOBR tier. We will also look at VeeaMover, a new technology that allows you to move backups within a SOBR extent to another extent or even a new SOBR. We will also look at VeeaMover to move VMs between jobs, and jobs between repositories. Lastly, we will look at the new Rebalance option for the SOBR, which helps manage capacity between the extents as well as exporting from a SOBR in the Capacity or Archive tiers.

Chapter 4, Tape Server and Other Enhancements, covers the tape server and other enhancements within Veeam Backup & Replication v12. You will be shown how you can now have the tape server role on Linux as well as how sending from object storage to tape is now an option. We will look at NAS backup to tape, as well as better LTO9 support. Lastly, we will take a look at other changes such as restoring “Permissions Only” for files, exporting VM disks to another Hypervisor, and VM exclusions, which now include excluding them from jobs.

Chapter 5, Veeam’s New Enhanced Security Features, discusses all things security-related within Veeam Backup & Replication v12. We will first look at the new MFA option within the console and support for gMSA security groups. We next look at how there will no longer be a need for SSH or SUDO within a Linux server. Lastly, we will take a look at the Auto Logoff feature within the console, allowing backup administrators to keep resources low.

Chapter 6, Object Storage – What’s New and Enhancements, discusses what is new within object storage as well as enhancements within Veeam Backup & Replication v12. We will first look at the Direct to Object option, which everyone has been waiting for, including adding object storage to the Performance tier of a SOBR. We next look at how immutability can be turned on for GFS backups. Lastly, we will take a look at how third-party integrations have changed for things such as Azure Cool tier and Blob immutability, along with the new Wasabi integration wizard.

Chapter 7, What’s New in NAS Backup, discusses what is new within NAS backup for Veeam Backup & Replication v12. We will first look at the new Archive Copy Mode and NAS backup to object storage as a target. We next look at how NAS backup supports immutability now. We will take a look at how you can publish an NFS as an SMB share for restore. Lastly, we will take a look at the improved health check and Cloud Helper appliance.

Chapter 8, CDP and Veeam Cloud Connect, discusses enhancements to CDP and Veeam Cloud Connect within Veeam Backup & Replication v12. We will first look at how customers can use CDP for vCD (Cloud Director) within a Cloud Connect environment. We next look at how you can use CDP to go from vCD to vCD. Lastly, we will take a look at how service providers can do an instant VM recovery within the Veeam Cloud Connect console using the backups on the repository servers.

To get the most out of this book

You should have at least 6 months of hands-on knowledge with Windows/Linux servers and virtualization with VMware, and it would be best if you were comfortable setting up servers and configuring them with storage. You should also have some backup knowledge and have already used Veeam, even for basic tasks, since many topics in the book look at the more advanced features of Veeam Backup & Replication.

Software/hardware covered in the book

Operating system requirements

Windows 2019/2022

Windows

Veeam Availability Suite

Windows

Ubuntu Linux 20.04 – Hardened Repositories

Linux

You need to have Windows Server set up to install Veeam Backup & Replication. You’ll also need to have the Veeam Availability Suite ISO file and trial license downloaded from http://www.veeam.com.

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Part 1: Installation – Best Practices, Core Architecture, and Other Enhancements

The objective of this section is to teach you about the best practices and optimizations for installing and upgrading Veeam. This section will also include core architectural changes and Scale-Out Backup Repository (SOBR) enhancements. It also covers the tape server and other enhancements within Veeam. You will be able to apply the best practices and optimizations to your installation of Veeam, as well as learn about the new enhancements.

The following chapters are included in this section:

Chapter 1, Installation – Best Practices and OptimizationsChapter 2, Core Architecture EnhancementsChapter 3, Scale-Out Backup Repository – What’s NewChapter 4, Tape Server and Other Enhancements

1

Installation – Best Practices and Optimizations

Veeam Backup & Replication v12 is part of the Veeam Availability Suite, the newest release for Veeam, and allows you to back up all your workloads, including cloud, virtual, physical, and applications. As we have seen from previous versions, it is simple yet flexible to meet your most challenging environment needs. This chapter will discuss how to install and upgrade the software, what components make up Veeam Backup & Replication v12, and some best practices and optimizations. There will be practical examples throughout this chapter of optimizing specific elements that make up the Veeam environment. We will also touch on some websites, such as the Best Practices Guide for Veeam, to give you resources to help you set up Veeam in your environment. As they say about Veeam – “It Just Works.”

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

Understanding the best practices and optimizations for Veeam installationConfiguring and optimizing Proxy ServersHow to set up Repository Servers for successUnderstanding the Scale-Out Backup Repository (SOBR)Upgrading Veeam Backup & Replication to v12

Technical requirements

To ensure a successful installation, you will require the following:

You must have Windows Server 2019/2022 deployed with the necessary disk space to install the application (2012/2008 R2 SP1 is also currently supported). Windows 10 and other modern Windows desktop operating systems are also supported. Please see the following website for the operating system requirements: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/system_requirements.html?ver=120#backup-server.You must have downloaded the latest ISO file from www.veeam.com, which requires registering on the site and allows you to obtain a trial license. At the time of writing, version 12.0.0.1420 is the current release.Veeam Best Practiceswebsite: https://bp.veeam.com/vbr/.Veeam documentation website: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/overview.html?ver=120.

Understanding the best practices and optimizations for Veeam installation

Installing Veeam Backup & Replication v12 is a straightforward process. Setting up Veeam, if not done right, can lead to components not working correctly and poor performance, among other things. It will protect your data and environment with minimal configuration when set up correctly. This section will go through the installation process and touch on the best practices and optimizations for your environment.

Installing Veeam Backup & Replication v12

Before installing Veeam Backup & Replication v12, you must ensure that you have a server deployed, based on the Technical requirements in the preceding section, with enough disk space for the installation.

Note

Veeam will configure the default backup repository on the drive with the most available disk space, whether it’s the OS drive, Application drive, or Catalog drive.

As a best practice for installing Veeam, the disk layout should be similar to the following so that you can separate components to ensure the best possible performance:

OS drive: This is where your operating system resides and should be used only for this.Application drive: This will be your application installation drive for Veeam and all its components.Catalog drive: Veeam uses a catalog that can generate