Veritas NetBackup 8.

3: Advanced Administration

Code: NBU8-3-ADV
Length: 5 days
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Acquire the skills to make your data protection strategy successful with the Veritas NetBackup 8.3: Advanced
Administration course. You will learn advanced NetBackup topics, including NetBackup performance, security, disaster
recovery, application and database protection on physical and virtual machines, and protecting data backed up to and
from the cloud. This course also covers using NetBackup to manage Oracle, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL,
Microsoft SharePoint, and SAP HANA database backups and restores along with other modern workloads like Red Hat
Virtualization and Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor. NetBackup APIs, Parallel Streaming Framework, Universal Shares, and
Veritas Smart Meter are also discussed in this course.

Skills Gained
By the completion of this course, you will be able to:

Improve NetBackup performance by addressing bottlenecks and becoming familiar with NetBackup performance

enhancing features.

Ensure your NetBackup environment and data is secure using security certificates, authentication, authorization,

auditing, and encryption.

Prepare for common disasters and plan for disaster recovery using optimized duplication and Auto Image

Replication.

Optimize NetBackup deduplication storage and use by understanding and managing performance enhancing

features for backups and restores, and configuring MSDP catalog protection policies.

Configure NetBackup to back up and restore Oracle, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL, Microsoft SharePoint and

SAP HANA databases.

Discuss strategies for Oracle, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL, and Microsoft SharePoint database recovery.

Configure, run, and manage backups for applications running in virtual machines.

Use NetBackup to protect modern workloads like Red Hat Virtualization and Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor.

Configure, run, and manage backups using NDMP filers with NetBackup.

Manage NetBackup cloud storage and cloud backups.

Work with Veritas Smart Meter and NetBackup APIs.

Integrate NetBackup and Veritas Resiliency Platform.

Configure NetBackup for Replication Director.

Configure NetBackup integration with Access Appliance 3340 (7.4.2).

Configure Bare Metal Restore.

Configure local and remote NDMP backups.

Who Can Benefit
This course is intended for NetBackup system administrators, system engineers, technical support personnel, and
system integration and development staff who are responsible for implementing new and advanced NetBackup 8.3
features and functions.

Prerequisites
Students should be familiar with general network and storage concepts, and the administration and configuration of
Windows or Linux operating systems. Students must also have one to three years of experience with basic NetBackup
administration, configuration, and operation. These prerequisites can be met by attending any version of the
NetBackup Administration course plus additional on-the-job experience.

Course Details

Hands-On
This course includes practical hands-on lab exercises to apply your new skills in a virtual NetBackup domain. At the
start of class students will choose between Windows-based or Linux-based NetBackup servers to perform lab
exercises.

Course Outline
Securing Backup Data

Understanding security concerns in a backup environment

Encrypting NetBackup deduplication data

Using NetBackup client encryption

Using NetBackup Key Management Services

Lab Exercise A: Configuring and performing an MSDP encrypted backup

Lab Exercise B: Configuring and performing a client encrypted backup

Lab Exercise C: Configuring the NetBackup Key Management Service

Lab Exercise D: Configuring NetBackup to work with KMS

Lab Exercise E: Backing up and recovering KMS database files

Improving NetBackup Performance

NetBackup performance overview

Addressing performance issues

Using Network Resiliency

Lab Exercise A: Optimizing backups using synthetic backups

Lab Exercise B: Configuring for and using FlashBackup

Optimizing NetBackup Deduplication

Improving deduplication backup performance

Optimizing deduplication restores and rehydration

Lab Exercise A: Configuring client direct restores

Lab Exercise B: Performing a client direct restore

 Lab Exercise C: Seeding MSDP FingerPrint cache

Lab Exercise D: Rehydration performance

NetBackup Parallel Streaming Framework

Parallel Streaming Framework: Overview

Protecting Hadoop data using NetBackup

Installing the Hadoop plug-in

Configuring NetBackup for Hadoop

Configuring backup policies for Hadoop

Backing up a Hadoop cluster

Recovering data to a Hadoop cluster

Lab Exercise A: Understanding Hadoop configuration

Lab Exercise B: Configuring Credentials for Hadoop in NetBackup

Lab Exercise C: Configuring the NetBackup policy

Lab Exercise D: Performing Hadoop backup

Lab Exercise E: Restoring Hadoop data

Protecting Microsoft SQL Databases

Introduction to Microsoft SQL Server

NetBackup for SQL Server: Overview

Managing SQL Server objects

Protecting Microsoft SQL Server assets

Using SQL Server Intelligent Policies

Restoring Microsoft SQL Server assets

Instant Access for Microsoft SQL Server

Lab Exercise A: Introduction to the SQL Server environment

Lab Exercise B: Registering SQL instance with NetBackup

Lab Exercise C: Configuring and performing a SQL server backup

Lab Exercise D: Deleting a SQL database

Lab Exercise E: Restoring a SQL database

Lab Exercise F: Creating a NetBackup SQL Intelligent Policy (Optional)

Lab Exercise G: Performing a manual SQL Server backup using an Intelligent Policy (Optional)

Lab Exercise H: Restoring a SQL database using NetBackup MS SQL Client (Optional)

Protecting Oracle Databases

Introduction to Oracle databases

NetBackup for Oracle: Overview

Managing Oracle

Configuring Oracle database backups

Monitoring and maintaining Oracle database backups

 Oracle database disaster recovery considerations

Real Application Clusters

Lab Exercise A: Initial configuration of Oracle

Lab Exercise B: Registering the Oracle instance with NetBackup

Lab Exercise C: Creating an Oracle Intelligent Policy

Lab Exercise D: Performing a backup using an Oracle Intelligent Policy

Lab Exercise E: Simulating a failure of an Oracle database

Lab Exercise F: Restoring an Oracle database

Protecting Microsoft Exchange

Introduction to Microsoft Exchange Server

Configuring NetBackup for Exchange

Exchange and high availability environments

Monitoring and maintaining Exchange database backups

Exchange disaster recovery considerations

Lab Exercise A: Configuring a Microsoft Exchange backup policy

Lab Exercise B: Performing non-NetBackup pre-requisite tasks for Exchange GRT

Lab Exercise C: Performing NetBackup tasks to enable Exchange Granular Recovery (GRT)

Lab Exercise D: Performing a Microsoft Exchange database backup

Lab Exercise E: Performing a Roll-Forward recovery

Lab Exercise F: Performing Point-in-Time recovery

Lab Exercise G: Performing an Exchange GRT database backup

Lab Exercise H: Recovering a deleted e-mail message

Lab Exercise I: Performing full and differential backups of an Exchange database (Optional)

Lab Exercise J: Restoring the Exchange database from full and differential backup images (Optional)

Protecting Red Hat Virtualization Workloads

Introduction to Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)

NetBackup for RHV: Configuration and deployment

Protecting Red Hat Virtualization virtual machines

Recovering Red Hat Virtualization virtual machines

Lab Exercise A: Configuring NetBackup communication with RHV

Lab Exercise B: Protecting RHV virtual machines

Lab Exercise C: Recovering RHV virtual machines

Protecting Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor Workloads

NetBackup for Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor: Overview

Configuring NetBackup communication with AHV

Configuring secure communication

Configuring backup policies for AHV

Backing up Nutanix AHV virtual machines

 Recovering Nutanix AHV virtual machines

Lab Exercise A: Configuring NetBackup communication with AHV

Lab Exercise B: Configuring, performing, and monitoring backups of Nutanix AHV virtual machines

Lab Exercise C: Recovering Nutanix AHV virtual machines

Universal Shares

Introduction to Universal Shares

BYO Universal Shares

Configuring Universal Shares

Backing up to a Universal Share

Protecting data in a Universal Share

Lab Exercise A: Verifying BYO media server configuration

Lab Exercise B: Creating and mounting a Universal Share

Lab Exercise B: Performing a backup to a Universal Share

Lab Exercise C: Protecting data in a Universal Share

Lab Exercise D: Restoring data to a Universal Share

NetBackup Cloud Solutions

Using the cloud with NetBackup

Configure NetBackup cloud storage

Managing NetBackup cloud storage and cloud backups

Veritas CloudPoint: Overview

NetBackup integration with CloudPoint

Protecting cloud workloads

Recovering cloud workloads

Lab Exercise A: Performing preliminary tasks

Lab Exercise B: Configuring cloud storage in NetBackup

Lab Exercise C: Configuring and performing backups to the cloud

Lab Exercise D: Restoring client data from cloud-based storage

Lab Exercise E: Protecting cloud assets using NetBackup (Optional)

Lab Exercise F: Restoring cloud assets using NetBackup (Optional)

Veritas Smart Meter

Introduction to Veritas Smart Meter

Privacy and Data security

Data types collected and data collection events

Enabling Veritas Smart Meter

NetBackup APIs

Introduction to NetBackup API

 Using NetBackup APIs for automation

Creating and using API keys

Lab Exercise A: Using NetBackup APIs with Swagger

Lab Exercise B: Using Swagger to configure MSDP

Lab Exercise C: Configuring VMware protection using NetBackup APIs

Lab Exercise D: Automating the use of NetBackup Universal Shares

Lab Exercise E: Automating SQL database backup and recovery

NetBackup Resilience

Introduction to Veritas Resiliency Platform

Integrating NetBackup and Veritas Resiliency Platform

Configuring Resiliency Group with NetBackup virtual machines

Restoring NetBackup virtual machines

Lab Exercise A: Understanding the lab environment.

Lab Exercise B: Preparing master server(Windows) for VMware backup with Auto Image Replication.

Lab Exercise D: Running and monitoring backup, replication, and import jobs.

Lab Exercise E: Adding master(Windows) to the New York data center in VRP.

Lab Exercise F: Adding master(Linux) to the London data center in VRP.

Lab Exercise G: Performing a rehearsal with VMware and NetBackup Auto Image Replication.

Lab Exercise H: Performing a rehearsal cleanup with VMware and NetBackup Auto Image Replication.

Appendix A: NetBackup Replication Director

Introduction to NetBackup Replication Director

NetBackup configuration for Replication Director

Restoring from a snapshot

Using NetApp disk arrays with Replication director

Using Oracle with Replication Director

Using Virtual Machines with Replication Director

Lab Exercise A: Creating a NetBackup storage server for snapshot replication

Lab Exercise B: Creating disk pools and storage units for snapshots and replication

Lab Exercise C: Creating a storage lifecycle policy for snapshots and snapshot replication

Lab Exercise D: Configuring backup policies for snapshots and snapshot replication

Lab Exercise E: Restoring files and folders from an array-based snapshot

Appendix B: Long Term Retention using Veritas Access

NetBackup Integration with Access Appliance 3340 (7.4.2)

Configuring Access as a cloud storage server

Configuring backup over S3

Veritas Data Deduplication

Lab Exercise A: Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication with Veritas Access

Lab Exercise B: Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication storage in NetBackup

 Lab Exercise C: Creating a S3 bucket on Veritas Access

Lab Exercise D: Configuring Veritas Access cloud storage in NetBackup

Lab Exercise E: Configuring and performing backups using NetBackup policies

Appendix C: Protecting SAP HANA databases

Introduction to NetBackup SAP HANA

Configuring NetBackup for SAP

Performing backups and restores of SAP HANA

Appendix D: NetBackup Bare Metal Restore

Introduction to Bare Metal Restore

Configuring Bare Metal Restore

Protecting clients

Setting up restore environments

Creating virtual machine from client backup

Lab Exercise A: Configuring BMR Master Server

Lab Exercise B: Configuring BMR Boot server

Lab Exercise C: Configuring backup policy for BMR

Lab Exercise D: Configuring SRT

Lab Exercise E: Performing BMR Restore

Lab Exercise F: Creating a Virtual Machine from client Image Backup

Appendix E: Protecting NAS Data

Introduction to NetBackup for NDMP

Preparing for NDMP backups

Configuring local NDMP backup

Configuring remote NDMP backups

Accelerator for NDMP filers

Protecting a NetApp cDOT NDMP filer

Understanding NDMP three-way backups

Data Protection Configuring NDMP three-way backups

Dynamic NAS (DNAS)

Appendix F: Protecting Microsoft SharePoint

Introduction to Microsoft SharePoint Server

Configuring NetBackup for SharePoint

SharePoint disaster recovery considerations

Lab Exercise A: Configuring a Microsoft SharePoint policy in NetBackup

Exercise B: Performing non-NetBackup tasks to enable SharePoint Granular Recovery

Exercise C: Performing NetBackup tasks to enable SharePoint Granular Recovery

 Exercise D: Performing a manual backup using a SharePoint policy

Exercise E: Deleting a document from a SharePoint site

Exercise F: Performing a SharePoint document restore

Appendix G: Legacy Policies and Generic Application Backups

Configuring NetBackup with legacy Oracle policies

Monitoring and maintaining Oracle database backups from legacy policies

Using the NetBackup Microsoft SQL Client console

Using SQL server batch files in NetBackup policies

Customizing generic application backups

Lab Exercise A: Viewing Initial configuration of Oracle

Lab Exercise B: Registering the Oracle instance with NetBackup

Lab Exercise C: Creating an Oracle Legacy Policy

Lab Exercise D: Performing a backup using an Oracle Legacy Policy

Lab Exercise E: Simulating a failure of an Oracle database

Lab Exercise F: Restoring an Oracle database

Appendix H: Processing MSDP

MSDP Processing: In-depth

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