VMCE: Veeam Backup and Replication v12.3: Configure, Manage, and Recover Virtual Classroom Live June 09, 2025

Course Overview

Data protection strategies

• Review of key data protection strategies that ensure the safety of your data.

Risk scenarios

• Explore different risk scenarios, what risks do we face daily within our environment?

Core components

• Review of Veeam Backup & Replication components required in most deployments, their purpose and key system requirements.

Initial security considerations

• Describe strategies and tools to secure the Veeam backup server to avoid unauthorized access and data leaks.

Virtual machine backup

• Efficiently protect VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines based on well-defined SLAs through the creation of backup jobs.

Agent backup

• Identify the use of protection groups to automate the installation of Veeam Agents and protecting workloads with agent backup jobs.

Unstructured data backup

• List required components and features available to protect unstructured data.

Backup data optimizations

• Analyze features and settings that allow backup storage optimization, faster backups and data consistency.

Immutability and hardened repositories

• Describe backup data protection mechanisms to avoid premature deletion and unwanted modifications. Identify characteristics and deployment steps of Linux Hardened Repositories to achieve backup data immutability.

Object storage

• Review why backing up to object storage, which object storage solutions are supported and considerations when using this type of repositories.

Transport modes

• Analyze different ways data can be read from the production environment and their benefits and considerations.

Backup copies

• Ensure recoverability and adhere to the 3-2-1 Rule with backup copy jobs.

Scale-out Backup Repository™

• Describe architecture, placement policies, data tiers and management of Scale-out Backup Repositories.

Moving or copying backups

• Identify use cases for workload and backup migrations with VeeaMover.

Replication

• Describe use cases, architectures and features of replication jobs and continuous data protection (CDP) policies.

Verifying recoverability

• Create automated tests to ensure recoverability from backups and replicas.

Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager

• Describe the use cases for Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager.

Incident Response Planning

• Integrating Veeam Backup and Replication into your incident response plan.

Recovery scenarios and features

• What are the implications of different recovery methods and selecting the correct recovery method.

Enacting a recovery

• Get practice in recovering different recovery types with a variety of data types.

Veeam Data Platform

• Identify and explain the purpose of each core product within the Veeam Data Platform and articulate potential use cases for them.