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