Integrating Veeam with HPE Storage Solutions

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

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

Module 6 Veeam and HPE StoreOnce Integration

• Veeam and StoreOnce integration components
• HPE StoreOnce—Veeam basics
• HPE StoreOnce deployment
• HPE StoreOnce and Veeam with NAS integration
• HPE StoreOnce and Veeam with Catalyst integration
• Suggested architectural design
• Support for deduplicating storage systems
• Catalyst and Veeam agents for Windows and Linux servers
• Veeam agents for Windows—backup repository setting
• Veeam and Catalyst features

             – Benefit of StoreOnce deduplication for Veeam’s repositories

             – Multistreamed write (per VM backup file)

             – StoreOnce: deduplication across VMs and jobs

             – Virtual synthetic full—fast full backup with Catalyst

             – Instant VM recovery and StoreOnce

             – SureBackup and 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 Catalyst write over WAN

             – Veeam and Catalyst over WAN

             – Option 1—Veeam-managed StoreOnce Catalyst Copy

             – StoreOnce Catalyst Copy “replication” models

• Summary

             – Data migration from any legacy storage to StoreOnce

             – HPE and Veeam—integration summary

Detailed lab outline

Physical Lab Guide for Primera and 3PAR storage

Lab 0: Accessing the vLabs Environment

• Accessing the HPE vLabs Environment

Lab 1: Initial 3PAR/Primera Storage Preparation

• Exercise 1: Verify SSMC status
• Exercise 2: Provision and present storage on 3PAR/Primera array
• Exercise 3: Connecting volume to ESXi, creating a new datastore and migrating VMs via vSphere Web Client

Lab 2: 3PAR/Primera Remote Replication Preparation

• Exercise 1: Configure a Remote Copy Group between 3PAR/ Primera arrays

Lab 3: Initial Veeam Preparation

• Exercise 1: Log on to Veeam backup software
• Exercise 2: Configure vCenter in Veeam
• Exercise 3: Configure a HPE 3PAR/Primera array in Veeam

Lab 4: Creating Backups Using Veeam and 3PAR/Primera

• Exercise 1: Configure Veeam backup for vSphere
• Exercise 2: Add FC backup proxy host to 3PAR/Primera
• Exercise 3: Check status of the volumes and snapshots on the array
• Exercise 4: Back up a virtual machine by using Veeam and array snapshots
• Exercise 5: Monitor the snapshot

Lab 5: Virtual Machine Instant Recovery with 3PAR/Primera

• Exercise 1: Check status of array volumes
• Exercise 2: Verify the vSphere configuration
• Exercise 3: Start instant recovery
• Exercise 4: Check status of array snapshot
• Exercise 5: Verify the recovered VM in vSphere
• Exercise 6: Start migration to the production volume

Lab 6: Granular File Level Restore with 3PAR/Primera

• Exercise 1: Make a granular file level restore

Lab 7: Backing Up From a Secondary 3PAR/Primera Storage

• Exercise 1: Add FC backup proxy host to a second 3PAR/Primera
• Exercise 2: Configure a target HPE 3PAR/Primera array in Veeam
• Exercise 3: Create a backup from storage replica job
• Exercise 4: Run a backup from storage replica job

Lab 8: Setup StoreOnce and Veeam

• Exercise 1: Create a new Catalyst store on StoreOnce
• Exercise 2: Create a Veeam backup repository
• Exercise 3: Create a Veeam backup job

Lab 9: Dedup and Virtual Synthetic Backup

• Exercise 1: Run a backup without source side dedup
• Exercise 2: Run a backup with source side dedup
• Exercise 3: Run a virtual synthetic full backup

Lab 10: Entire VM and SQL Item Restore From StoreOnce

• Exercise 1: Restore an entire VM
• Exercise 2: SQL item recovery

Lab 11: Backup Copy

• Exercise 1: Create a new Catalyst store on a remote StoreOnce
• Exercise 2: Create a Veeam backup repository based on a remote StoreOnce
• Exercise 3: Create a Veeam backup copy job
• Exercise 4: Execute and monitor a Veeam backup copy job

Lab 12: Agent Backup and Catalyst Copy

• Exercise 1: Create a new Catalyst store (“source”) on a local StoreOnce
• Exercise 2: Create a “source” Veeam backup repository
• Exercise 3: Create a new Catalyst store (“target”) on a remote StoreOnce
• Exercise 4: Create a “target” Veeam backup repository
• Exercise 5: Create and execute Veeam Agent backup job and prepare environment
• Exercise 6: Create, execute and monitor a Veeam Catalyst Copy job

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