Integrating Veeam with HPE Storage Solutions

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

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Describe the core components of Veeam

• Describe local and remote replication features of HPE Primera, HPE 3PAR, and HPE Nimble storage arrays

• Talk about Veeam integrations with HPE storage arrays (HPE Primera, HPE 3PAR and HPE Nimble), including advantages

• Describe HPE StoreOnce basics

• List types of HPE StoreOnce backup targets—VTL, NAS, HPE StoreOnce Catalyst

• Discuss deduplication technology

• Explain VTL and NAS replication and HPE StoreOnce Catalyst copy

• Plan, configure and perform Veeam backup and recovery by using HPE storage and backup products

• Configure backup replication (local and Remote)

Before attending this course, students must have:

• Basic VMware® vSphere® administration experience

• Basic understanding of iSCSI, fibre channel, backup, and SAN technologies

• Basic Veeam, HPE Primera, HPE 3PAR, HPE Nimble, and HPE StoreOnce knowledge

Module 1: Veeam Introduction/Review

• Components

– Core components

– Data transfer scheme

– Veeam Backup Server

– Veeam Backup Proxy (VMware)

– 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

– Backup copy

– Backup copy overview

– Replication (VMware)

– Agent backup

– NAS backup

• Recovery

– Instant VM Recovery (IVMR) introduction

– Instant VM Recovery flow

– Instant VM Recovery for Microsoft Hyper-V

– Full VM recovery

– VM file recovery

– Virtual drive recovery (VMware vSphere only)

– Recovery from a replica

– Objects recovery—Veeam Explorer

– 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

• HPE Primera/HPE 3PAR local replication

• HPE Primera/HPE 3PAR snapshot

• HPE Primera/HPS 3PAR virtual copy

• HPE Primera/HPE 3PAR clone

• HPE Nimble local replication

• HPE Nimble snapshot

• Snapshot life cycle

• Volume collections and schedules

• HPE Nimble zero copy clones

• Recovery scenarios using local replication

Module 3: HPE Storage Review—Remote Replication

• HPE Primera/HPE 3PAR remote replication

• HPE Primera/HPE 3PAR remote copy

– FC-based remote copy

– Native IP-based remote Copy

– Remote copy terminology

• Replication modes

– Synchronous mode

– Asynchronous periodic mode

– Asynchronous streaming mode

– Synchronous long distance mode

– Peer persistence

• HPE Nimble remote replication

– Replication components

– Partner

– Replication QOS—bandwidth limit

– How replication works—the basics

– Volume collection schedules—more information

– Replication and deduplication notes

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 (HPE 3PAR, HPE Primera, HPE 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

– HPE 3PAR/HPE Primera snapshot orchestration

– Backup from HPE 3PAR/HPE Primera replicated storage snapshots

– Nimble snapshot orchestration and replication over WAN

– Backup from HPE 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 HPE 3PAR/HPE 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

– HPE Recovery Manager Central

– Backup policy including storage snapshots

– Veeam supports HPE 3PAR and HPE Nimble VVOLs for VMware vSpher

Module 5: HPE StoreOnce Review

• What is HPE StoreOnce?

• HPE StoreOnce backup systems

• HPE 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 HPE StoreOnce  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 HPE StoreOnce 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

– HPE StoreOnce Catalyst copy

– HPE StoreOnce Catalyst—ISV-controlled replication

– HPE StoreOnce Catalyst Copy deployment options

– Seeding the replication target

Module 6 Veeam and HPE StoreOnce Integration

• Veeam and HPE StoreOnce integration components

• HPE StoreOnce—Veeam basics

• HPE StoreOnce deployment

• HPE StoreOnce and Veeam with NAS integration

• HPE StoreOnce and Veeam with HPE StoreOnce Catalyst integration

• Suggested architectural design

• Support for deduplicating storage systems

• HPE StoreOnce Catalyst and Veeam agents for Windows and Linux servers

• Veeam agents for Windows—backup repository setting

• Veeam and HPE StoreOnce Catalyst features

– Benefit of HPE StoreOnce deduplication for Veeam’s repositories

– Multistreamed write (per VM backup file)

– HPE StoreOnce: deduplication across VMs and jobs

– Virtual synthetic full—fast full backup with Catalyst

– Instant VM recovery and HPE StoreOnce

– SureBackup and HPE StoreOnce

– Ransomware and data protection (backup)

– Ransomware and data protection (backup)

– Immunize your backup repository against viruses

• Backup replication

– Veeam backup replication

– Option 3—traditional Veeam backup replication process

– Option 2—direct HPE StoreOnce Catalyst write over WAN

– Veeam and HPE StoreOnce Catalyst over WAN

– Option 1—Veeam-managed HPE StoreOnce Catalyst copy

– HPE StoreOnce Catalyst copy “replication” models

– HPE StoreOnce backup to tape from the central replica hub

– Cloud volumes backup support

– Cloud volumes backup

– Set it and forget it

– Backup and restore

– Cloud volume backup—Veeam fully supported*

• Summary

– Data migration from any legacy storage to HPE StoreOnce

– HPE and Veeam—integration summary