VMCA : Veeam Backup and Replication v12.1 : Architecture et conception

The VMCA: Veeam Backup & Replication v12.1 – Architecture and Design course is ideal for IT professionals who want to gain technical mastery over Veeam solutions. Attendees will explore infrastructure assessment, security, governance, and validation best practices to create efficient and resilient Veeam environments.

This hands-on course will prepare you to design, implement, and defend your Veeam solution through team-based exercises and real-world scenarios.

This course satisfies the prerequisite for taking the Veeam Certified Architect (VMCA) exam, the highest level of Veeam certification. Achieving VMCA status validates your expertise in designing enterprise-grade Veeam solutions.

• Senior engineers and architects responsible for designing and deploying Veeam solutions.
• IT professionals looking to optimize backup and recovery strategies.
• Current VMCE-certified professionals seeking VMCA certification.

Introduction

• Review course expectations

• Analyze architecture principles

• Review Veeam architecture methodology

• Define the scope of a design project

• List the deliverables of a design project

Discovery

• Describe the data gathering process

• List key data to get from stakeholders

• Describe possible tools to analyze existing environments

• Identify complexity in the environment

• Review the course scenario

Conceptual design

• Clarify requirement, constraint, assumption, and risk concepts

• Identify received information as requirement, constraint, assumption, or risk

• Create high-level infrastructure and data flow diagrams

Logical design

• List required Veeam components based on requirements

• Describe logical grouping parameters

• Utilize appropriate sizing tools

• Create logical designs based on the course scenario

Physical design

• Describe the decision making procedure

• List the considerations behind designing backup repositories and VMware backup proxies

• Explain the implications of using backup from storage snapshots

• Document physical design decisions

• Create physical designs based on the course scenario

Group presentation

• Produce a presentation to a customer that summarizes your design

• Present your design

Implementation and Governance

• Describe the implementation guide

• List possible backup server configurations and security configurations

• Define the job design

• List the architect obligations for implementation

Validation and Iteration

• List the possible validation tests that can be performed on an implementation

• Describe validation tools and procedures

• List recovery validations that can be performed on an implementation

• Define malware detection methods

• Analyze considerations behind starting a new design cycle