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Understanding Veeam Backup & Replication

With Veeam Backup & Replication, you can create image-level backups of virtual, physical, and cloud machines and restore from them. The technology in the product optimizes data transfer and resource consumption, which helps minimize storage costs and recovery time in case of a disaster.

Veeam Backup & Replication provides a centralized console for administering backup, restore, and replication operations in all supported platforms (virtual, physical, cloud). Also, the console allows you to automate and schedule routine data protection operations and integrate with solutions for alerting and generating compliance reports. See below an overview of how the Veeam Backup & Replication will integrate into an enterprise IT environment:

 

Core Data Protection Methods

Core functionality of Veeam Backup & Replication include:

  • Backup:  Creating image-level backups of virtual, physical, cloud machines and backups of unstructured data that can be stored on disk, tape, or in the cloud.

  • Restore:  Restoring from backups through a number of recovery options including Instant Recovery, image-level restore, file-level restore, and restore of application items

  • Replication:  Creating and maintaining replication providing a recovery point objective (RPO) of hours/minutes

  • Continuous Data Protection:  Replication technology providing recovery point objective (RPO) of seconds

  • Recovery Verification:  Testing VM backups and replicas prior to performing recovery

  • Storage Integrations:  Leveraging native snapshot technology to backup and restore VMs, NAS File Shares and Veeam Agent for Windows
Protected Objects & Applications

The following objects can be protected with Veeam Backup & Replication:

  • Virtual Machines:  VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VE and Linux RHV and OLVM

  • Cloud VMs:  AWS EC2 instances, Microsoft Azure VMs, and Google Cloud VMs

  • Physical Machines:  Machines running Windows, Linux, MacOS, Oracle Solaris, and IBM AIX operating systems through the use of installed backup agent

  • Unstructured Data:  SMB & NFS File Shares, Microsoft Windows Server, Linux Server, Object Storage

Veeam Backup and Replication supports application-consistent backups for:

  • Microsoft SQL Server

  • Microsoft Exchange

  • Microsoft OneDrive

  • Microsoft SharePoint

  • Microsoft Active Directory

  • PostgreSQL

  • MySQL (with Agent)

  • Oracle Database

  • EntraID

  • Integrate external tools with Veeam Backup & Replication with Veeam Plug-ins for Enterprise Applications such as; Oracle RMAN, SAP HANA, Microsoft SQL, IBM Db2, MongoDB
Services, Management & Reporting

With Veeam, you stay in control with proactive management and analytics. Veeam Backup & Replication integrates with a set of solutions that provide reporting and management capabilities for enterprise environments:

  • Veeam ONE:  Enables real-time monitoring, management reporting, and documentation for Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Backup for M365, VMware vSphere, and Microsoft Hyper-V

  • Veeam Recovery Orchestrator:  Create workflows to orchestrate recovery operations for both virtual and physical machines to VMware vSphere and Microsoft Azure cloud environments.

  • Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager:  Web console enabling management of multiple Veeam Backup & Replication deployments

  • Management Pack for Veeam Backup & Replication:  Integrate Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)

  • Veeam Service Provider Console:  Deliver Veeam-powered Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) and Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) services

  • Veeam Cloud Connect:  Offer cloud repository and disaster recovery as services using Veeam Backup & Replication

 

Core Components of Veeam Backup & Replication

The Veeam backup infrastructure comprises a set of components, a machine can be assigned to a number of different infrastructure roles. Click on the components in the infrastructure below to learn more about these core components:

 

Veeam Backup & Replication Server

The configuration and control center to setup and manage the Veeam Backup Infrastructure components. The backup server performs all types of administrative activities such as:

  • Coordinates backup, replication, recovery verification and restore tasks

  • Controls job scheduling and resource allocation

  • Is used to set up and manage backup infrastructure components as well as specify global settings for the backup infrastructure

Virtual Hosts

We protect Virtual Hypervisor Infrastructure, utilizing API integrations with these hypervisor solutions, we can create image-level backups of those workloads.

Physical Hosts

We protect Windows and Linux on Physical Workloads with Veeam Agent capabilities. This takes an image-level backup of the OS and Data stored on the physical device.

Backup Proxy 

The primary role of the proxy server is to provide an optimal route for backup traffic and enable efficient data transfer. Key features of a proxy would include: 

  • Reduces the workload of the production environment by offloading a part of the data transfer to the proxy
  • Runs multiple jobs to be processed simultaneously, it also increases the overall backup performance

Backup Repository 

Repositories provide the storage by storing backup images and important meta-data used during backup and replication. A repository allows users to: 

  • Store copies of all their backup files, which can then be retrieved as needed
  • Enables users to restore data quickly and efficiently, even in the event of disaster or a data corruption event

 

 

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