Advanced vSphere Backup Tips, Automation and Practices by Veeam

Niels EngelenGlobal Technologist, Product Strategy@nielsengelen

Have you ever…

Been asked to restore data that wasn’t backed up?

Let’s give you tools to never have that happen again!

Why Veeam?

Veeam: 11+ Years of Innovation

• 2-in-1: backupand replication™

• Instant File-Level Recovery

• Built-in deduplication

Q1 08

• Instant File-LevelRecovery for Linux

Q1 09

• Instant VM Recovery®

• SureBackup®

®

™

Q4 10

• VeeamZIP ™

• Instant VM Recovery for Hyper-V

Q2 12

• Built-in WAN Acceleration

• Backup directly from Storage Snapshots

Q3 13

• Scale-out Backup Repository™

• BitLooker™

Q4 15

• Advanced VSSintegration

Q3 08• vStorage APIs

(VADP)

• Support for Changed Block Tracking

Q4 09• Intelligent

load balancing

• Hyper-V Changed Block Tracking

Q4 11• Veeam Explorer

for Storage Snapshots

• Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange

Q4 12• Backup I/O control

• Snapshot Hunter

• Password loss protection for encryption

• Veeam Cloud Connect

Q4 14• Advanced ReFS

integration

• Instant recovery from ANY backup

• Advanced data fetcher

• In-RAM infrastructure mirror

• Direct Restore to Microsoft Azure

Q3 16

• Universal Storage API

• Insider Protection for Veeam Cloud Connect

• Data Location Tagging for GDPR compliance

Q4 17

• Veeam Cloud Tier (object storage)

• Veeam DataLabs™ Staged & Secure Restore

• Intelligent Diagnostics

• Availability for AWS

• Direct Restore to AWS EC2

Q1 19

Veeam Availability Platform

Backup & Replication

Monitoring & Analytics

DataLabs

Orchestration

Cloud SaaS Physical Virtual

Universal APIs

VMware Storage FeaturesFrom the backup lens

Storage Policy-Based Management• A common policy framework

across VMFS, vSAN & VVols

• Abstracts underlying storage

• Intelligent placement of services at VM level

The Storage Policy-Based Management association is critical when it comes to backup and restore.

Otherwise, why use the new frameworks if you can’t ensure their service levels on restore.

VMFS snapshots a lot better in recent versions of vSphere, but Snapshots changed completely with vSAN and VVols.

SPBM in Production: Sure. Backup?

Ensure that the restore process correctly matches the Storage Policy-Based Management association

Association on Restore!

I Spy VSAN!

Veeam has arguably the best VSAN Support. Ask me how!

Why wouldn't you be using these for your Veeam jobs?

• Fast• Manageable• Automated

Automate backup with Tags

Automate your VMs being added to a backup job by using vSphere Tags

VM restores will have tags as well!

Automate backup with Tags

Advanced Backup Storage

Veeam technology to apply a management SDS approach to backup storage with unlimited capacity and fully agnostic.

Scale-Out Backup Repository

Scale-outBackup Repository

Older backup files

DAS

NAS

Dedupe appliance

Amazon S3

Microsoft Azure Blob

S3-compatible

Backup jobs will continue if an extent is offline.

Extents can be evacuated transparently.

No Veeam capacity costs or limits.

Extents (underlying storage)

Veeam Cloud Tier: Dehydration

VBK

Metadata

Data

Dehydrated VBKBackup Repository

Amazon S3 Bucket

Veeam Cloud Tier: Dehydration

VBK

Metadata

Data

Backup Repository

Amazon S3 Bucket

Veeam Cloud Tier: Dehydration

VBK

Metadata

Data

Backup Repository

Amazon S3 Bucket

Veeam Cloud Tier: Dehydration

Metadata

Data

Backup Repository

Amazon S3 Bucket

Dehydrated VBK

Automation Situation

Few examples to think about• Think about how VMs are deployed today and that

workflow• PowerShell• UI to automate scenarios• End-to-End Automation

vSphere tags (and categories) are the way to go for many reasons:• Scalability• Policy: Backup• Policy: DR• Policy: In-Scope of Audit• Policy: Production• Policy: Dev• Owner Identification• Automation-Friendly

PowerShell, built on tags

How to do this?Simple PowerShell Script Built from HelpCenter

Add-PSSnapin VeeamPSSnapin

Connect-VBRServer

$repository = Get-VBRBackupRepository -Name "NAS"

$TagsOnlyWayToGo = Find-VBRViEntity -Name "BU-T1-4H" -Tags

Add-VBRViBackupJob -Name "VMUGPoshJob" -BackupRepository $repository -Entity

$TagsOnlyWayToGo -Description "For the VMUG!"

Set-VBRJobSchedule -Job "VMUGPoshJob" -Periodicaly -FullPeriod 4 -PeriodicallyKind Hours

Enable-VBRJobSchedule -Job "VMUGPoshJob"

What’s coming in 2019?

Enhanced NAS backup

Veeam Backup & Replication

CDP capability

Veeam Backup & Replication

More Disaster Recovery Capabilities

Veeam Availability Orchestrator

Including from the Cloud Tier!

Agent updates

Veeam Agent for LinuxVeeam Agent for Microsoft Windows

And more!

New Office 365 Capabilities

Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365

vSphere!

Thank you