Delivery Method(s)
This course is available in the following delivery methods:
• Instructor-led training (ILT)
• Virtual instructor-led training (VILT)
• Learning Lab
Duration
• Instructor-led training (ILT): 5 days, including 6 months of lab access
• Virtual instructor-led training (VILT): 5 days, including 6 months of lab access
• Learning Lab – Self-paced lesson guide plus 6 months of lab access
Course Objectives
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 Should Attend
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.

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
Labs
• Exercise A: Configuring and performing an MSDP encrypted backup
• Exercise B: Configuring and performing a client encrypted backup
• Exercise C: Configuring the NetBackup Key Management Service
• Exercise D: Configuring NetBackup to work with KMS
• Exercise E: Backing up and recovering KMS database files
Improving NetBackup Performance
• NetBackup performance overview
• Addressing performance issues
• Using Network Resiliency

Labs
• Exercise A: Optimizing backups using synthetic backups
• Exercise B: Configuring for and using FlashBackup

Optimizing NetBackup Deduplication
• Improving deduplication backup performance
• Optimizing deduplication restores and rehydration
Labs
• Exercise A: Configuring client direct restores
• Exercise B: Performing a client direct restore
• Exercise C: Seeding MSDP FingerPrint cache
• 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

Labs
• Exercise A: Understanding Hadoop configuration
• Exercise B: Configuring Credentials for Hadoop in NetBackup
• Exercise C: Configuring the NetBackup policy
• Exercise D: Performing Hadoop backup
• 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

Labs
• Exercise A: Introduction to the SQL Server environment
• Exercise B: Registering SQL instance with NetBackup
• Exercise C: Configuring and performing a SQL server backup
• Exercise D: Deleting a SQL database
• Exercise E: Restoring a SQL database
• Exercise F: Creating a NetBackup SQL Intelligent Policy (Optional)
• Exercise G: Performing a manual SQL Server backup using an Intelligent Policy (Optional)
• 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

Labs
• Exercise A: Initial configuration of Oracle
Exercise B: Registering the Oracle instance with NetBackup
• Exercise C: Creating an Oracle Intelligent Policy
• Exercise D: Performing a backup using an Oracle Intelligent Policy
• Exercise E: Simulating a failure of an Oracle database
• 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

Labs
• Exercise A: Configuring a Microsoft Exchange backup policy
• Exercise B: Performing non-NetBackup pre-requisite tasks for Exchange GRT
• Exercise C: Performing NetBackup tasks to enable Exchange Granular Recovery (GRT)
• Exercise D: Performing a Microsoft Exchange database backup
• Exercise E: Performing a Roll-Forward recovery
• Exercise F: Performing Point-in-Time recovery
• Exercise G: Performing an Exchange GRT database backup
• Exercise H: Recovering a deleted e-mail message
• Exercise I: Performing full and differential backups of an Exchange database (Optional)
• 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