Learning VeeamĀ® Backup & Replication for VMware vSphere
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Learning VeeamĀ® Backup & Replication for VMware vSphere
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Introduction to VeeamĀ® Backup & Replication v7 for VMware
Backup strategies
Recovery point objective and recovery time objective
Native tape support
VeeamĀ® Backup & Replication architecture
VeeamĀ® Backup & Replication components
Backup proxy
Backup repository
VeeamĀ® Backup Enterprise Manager
Using U-AIR wizards
Built-In WAN Acceleration
Comparing editions
Installing VeeamĀ® Backup & Replication v7
Configuring a repository
Summary
2. Configuring Backups
Backup repositories
Backup transport modes
Backup modes
Incremental backup
Incremental backup with synthetic full
Reversed incremental backup
Configuring a virtual backup proxy
Configuring a backup job
Configuring a tape backup job
Adding a remote repository
Summary
3. Restoring Data
Performing Instant VM Recovery
Performing Full VM Restore
Restoring VM files
Restoring VM hard disks
Restoring VM Guest files
Summary
4. Replicating Virtual Machines
Replication infrastructure
Setting up a replication job
Replica failover and failback
Performing a replica failover/failback
Summary
5. Other Features
Understanding SureBackup and SureReplica
Universal Application-Item Recovery (U-AIR)
Quick Migration
SAN Support
vCloud Director support
VeeamĀ® Backup Enterprise Manager
VeeamĀ® Backup Search
1-Click VM Restore
vSphere Web Client plugin
Summary
Index
Learning VeeamĀ® Backup & Replication for VMware vSphere
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Author
Christian Mohn
Reviewer
Michael L Ellerbeck
Commissioning Editor
Ashwin Nair
Acquisition Editor
Neha Nagwekar
Content Development Editor
Arvind Koul
Technical Editor
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Copy Editor
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Project Coordinator
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Christian Mohn is a VMware vExpert, an IT industry veteran, and a blogger with more than 16 years of real-world experience. Christian currently works as a virtualization architect for Norway's largest IT company EVRY, where he designs and implements virtualization solutions for enterprise clients as well as serves as the Tech Champion for server virtualization.
Prior to joining EVRY, he was the Infrastructure Manager for a large Norwegian shipping company, where he introduced virtualization throughout the organization.
He is also one of the hosts of the vSoup Virtualization Podcast and is well known for his contributions to the virtualization community through his virtualization blog vNinja.net.
Christian lives in Bergen, Norway, with his wife and two kids.
He was one of the technical reviewers of VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook, Abhilash GB, Packt Publishing, and wrote the foreword for Building End-User Computing Solutions with VMware View, Mike Laverick and Barry Coombs, Lulu.
In addition to this, he has written whitepapers and held several technical webinars for VeeamĀ®.
First and foremost, I would like to thank my wife and kids. Without their patience and encouragement, this book would never have been published. The same goes for my employer EVRY, who has been very supportive of this project.
I would also like to thank Packt Publishing for giving me the opportunity to become a published author, especially Neha Nagwekar (Acquisition Editor), Sageer Parkar (Project Coordinator), and Arvind Koul (Content Development Editor).
Special thanks to the technical reviewer who has taken time out of his very busy schedule to assist me in improving the content of the book. I know a project like this consumes large amount of time; your assistance is greatly appreciated!
Last but not leastālook mom, I'm an author!
Michael L Ellerbeck is an Information Technology enthusiast. He enjoys writing, and his ramblings can be found at michaelellerbeck.com.
Michael enjoys a lot of different things. He likes data and is interested in information management in general. He has a master's degree in Information Management from the University of Washington.
Overall he enjoys finding solutions and integrating things to become greater than the sum of its parts.
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