This course covers Veeam backup and replication software in context of integrations with HPE Primera, HPE 3PAR, HPE Nimble and HPE StoreOnce products. It includes an introduction and review of Veeam, HPE Primera, 3PAR, Nimble, and StoreOnce concepts that are important to know before working with Veeam integrations with HPE products.

It also covers theory and features available in Veeam when combined with HPE products, including NAS and Catalyst integration, local and remote copy integrations, backup and recovery flow, verification and best practices. The course includes hands-on labs using Veeam with HPE Primera, 3PAR and Nimble storage arrays and StoreOnce backup appliances.

Audience

Customers, HPE services field engineers, call center personnel, presales and channel partners, and other field personnel who provide installation and/or operational support assistance

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students must have:

• Basic VMware® vSphere® administration experience
• Basic understanding of iSCSI, fibre channel, backup, and SAN technologies
• Basic Veeam, Primera, 3PAR, Nimble, and StoreOnce knowledge

Course objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Describe the core components of Veeam
• List Veeam backup and recovery capabilities
• Describe local and remote replication features of HPE Primera, 3PAR, and Nimble storage arrays
• Talk about Veeam integrations with HPE storage arrays (Primera, 3PAR and Nimble), including advantages
• Describe StoreOnce basics
• List types of StoreOnce backup targets— VTL, NAS, Catalyst
• Discuss deduplication technology
• Explain VTL and NAS Replication and Catalyst Copy
• Plan, configure and perform Veeam backup and recovery by using HPE storage and backup products
• Configure backup replication

Course Outline

Module 1: Veeam Introduction/Review

• Components
  • Core components
  • Data transfer scheme
  • Veeam Backup Server
  • Veeam Backup Proxy (VMware)
  • Veeam Backup Proxy (Hyper-V)
  • Veeam Backup Proxy—transport mode (VMware)
  • Direct storage SAN access mode (VMware)
  • Direct storage NFS access mode (VMware)
  • Virtual appliance mode (VMware)
  • Network mode (VMware)
  • Veeam backup repository
  • WAN acceleration
• Backup
  • Full backup
  • Incremental backups
  • Reverse incremental backup
  • Forward incremental backup
  • Forever forward incremental versus forward incremental backup
  • Active full and synthetic full
  • Changed block tracking
  • Backup copy
  • Backup copy process
  • Replication (VMware)
  • Replication (Hyper-V)
  • Agent backup
• Recovery
  • Instant VM Recovery (IVMR) introduction
  • Instant VM Recovery flow
  • Instant VM Recovery for Hyper-V
  • Full VM recovery
  • VM file recovery
  • Virtual drive recovery (VMware vSphere only)
  • Recovery from a replica
  • Objects recovery—Veeam Explorer
  • Objects recovery—Veeam Explorer for Storage Snapshots
  • Objects recovery—Instant File-Level Recovery (IFLR)
• Verification
  • SureBackup/SureReplica recovery verification
  • SureBackup recovery verification flow
  • SureReplica recovery verification flow
  • On-Demand Sandbox/DataLabs
  • Product editions
  • Veeam Universal License
  • Veeam principal integration points with HPE infrastructure
  • HPE and Veeam—integration focus introduction

Module 2: HPE Storage Review 

• Primera/3PAR local replication
• Primera/3PAR snapshot
• Primera/3PAR virtual copy
• Primera/3PAR clone
• Nimble local replication
• Nimble snapshot
• Snapshot life cycle
• Volume collections and schedules
• Nimble Zero Copy Clones
• Recovery scenarios using local replication

Module 3: HPE Storage Review—Remote Replication 

• Primera/3PAR remote replication
• Primera/3PAR Remote Copy
  • FC-based Remote Copy
  • Native IP-based Remote Copy
  • Remote Copy terminology
  • Replication modes
  • Synchronous mode
  • Asynchronous periodic mode
  • Synchronous long distance mode
  • Failure scenarios
  • Peer persistence
• Nimble remote replication
  • Replication components
  • Partner
  • Snapshot replication schedule (based on volume collection)
  • Replication QOS—bandwidth limit
  • How replication works—the basics
  • Volume collection schedules—more information
  • Replication and deduplication notes
  • General DR operations

Module 4: Veeam and HPE Storage Integration

• HPE storage integration
  • Common VADP agentless backup process (vStorage API— Data Protection)—overhead
  • Storage integration—standard backup
  • Comparison—overhead of standard VMFS snapshots compared to hardware snap
  • Storage integration introduction
  • Veeam integration with HPE primary storage
  • Leverage on HPE storage snapshots
  • Veeam backup job from HPE primary storage snapshots process overview—VEEAM advantage
  • Storage integration—backup with Veeam snapshot integration
  • Benefit of using hardware snapshots (3PAR, Primera, Nimble) for backup
  • VMware VM snapshot challenges summary
  • Storage integration versus traditional approach summary
  • Veeam supports direct connectivity to HPE primary storage
• Veeam and HPE storage features
  • 3PAR/Primera snapshot orchestration
  • Backup from 3PAR/Primera replicated storage snapshots
  • Nimble snapshot orchestration and replication over WAN
  • Backup from Nimble snapshots on the secondary array
  • How to configure snapshot-only jobs
  • Configuring snapshot and backup-file in a single job
  • Summary view—Veeam snapshot orchestration with 3PAR/Primera
  • Instant VM Recovery from HPE storage snapshot
  • Traditional restore via LAN
  • Faster restore via SAN
  • How to improve restore speed—more technical details
  • Veeam On-Demand Sandbox/DataLabs from HPE storage snapshot
  • Veeam Explorer for Storage Snapshots
  • Restore application items from storage snapshots
  • Recovery Manager Central
  • Backup policy including storage snapshots
  • Veeam supports 3PAR and Nimble VVOLs for vSphere

Module 5: HPE StoreOnce Review 

• What is StoreOnce?
• HPE StoreOnce backup systems
• StoreOnce—emulation types
• Virtual tape libraries
• NAS shares
• HPE StoreOnce interfaces—traditional NAS/VTL
• HPE StoreOnce Catalyst
  • Which benefits does HPE StoreOnce Catalyst deliver?
  • HPE StoreOnce interfaces with Catalyst
• Deduplication
  • Deduplication—what is it?
  • HPE StoreOnce deduplication
  • Deduplication data locality
  • Typical deduplication ratios
  • HPE StoreOnce appliance architecture
  • HPE StoreOnce Catalyst ISV integration
  • Source/server side Catalyst deduplication
• HPE StoreOnce replication
  • Replication of VTL and NAS shares
  • Replication granularity
  • HPE StoreOnce replication deployment options (VTL/ NAS)
  • Appliance fan-out
  • Appliance fan-in
  • Catalyst Copy
  • HPE StoreOnce Catalyst—ISV-controlled replication
  • StoreOnce Catalyst Copy deployment options
  • Seeding the replication target