During Veeam deployment, Veeam Life and Indemnity has determined that the latency encountered during backup of the virtualized MSSQL Server database running on vSAN is too high. What is the recommended step Veeam Life and Indemnity can take to improve this?
Correct Answer: C
Explanation The recommended step that Veeam Life and Indemnity can take to improve the latency encountered during backup of the virtualized MSSQL Server database running on vSAN is to implement Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows on the virtualized MSSQL Server database servers. Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows is a data protection solution that allows you to back up physical or virtual Windows machines at the guest OS level. Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows can provide application-aware processing and transaction log backup for MSSQL servers, as well as support for vSAN storage snapshots. Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows can also reduce the latency by performing backups without using VMware snapshots, which can cause stun issues on vSAN.
Question 17
Which of the following is risk for this project?
Correct Answer: C
Explanation To design a solution that meets the needs and requirements of Veeam University Hospital, you need to consider some of the risks and challenges that may affect the success and quality of the project. This will help you to identify and mitigate any potential issues or errors that may arise during the implementation or operation of the solution. According to the Veeam Backup & Replication Best Practice Guide, a risk is a factor that may negatively impact the performance, reliability, security, or functionality of the backup and replication solution. A risk may be caused by internal or external factors, such as technical limitations, environmental constraints, human errors, etc. Based on this definition, one of the possible risks for this project is C. Data must be replicated with one-hour recovery point objective. This risk means that: *The recovery point objective (RPO) is a business requirement that defines the maximum acceptable amount of data loss in case of a disaster or failure. It is measured in time units, such as minutes, hours, or days. *The data replication is a technical solution that allows you to create replicas of your running workloads on another host or site. It is used for disaster recovery purposes, as it enables you to quickly fail over and fail back in case of a disaster. *The one-hour RPO is a challenging and demanding requirement that may be difficult toachieve or maintain, depending on various factors, such as the data change rate, the available bandwidth, the replication frequency, etc. *The one-hour RPO may also conflict or contradict with other requirements or expectations, such as the backup window, the backup retention, the backup storage capacity, etc. This risk has some implications for designing a solution with Veeam products and features, such as: *The customer or a third-party vendor must monitor and measure the data change rate of the workloads that need to be replicated, as well as the available bandwidth between sites. This will help to plan and optimize the replication infrastructure, such as the proxy servers, repository servers, WAN accelerators, and failover plans, based on the data change rate. *The customer or a third-party vendor must configure and adjust the replication settings and policies, such as the replication method, schedule, frequency, retention, compression, deduplication, etc., based on the one-hour RPO. This will help to improve the replication performance and efficiency, as well as to meet the RPO requirement. *The customer or a third-party vendor must test and verify the replication results and processes, as well as perform regular failover and failback drills. This will help to ensure the reliability and consistency of the replicas, as well as to validate and improve the RPO achievement.
Question 18
Why is it recommended to have a Veeam backup server at each of the three sites?
Correct Answer: D
Explanation According to the Veeam Backup & Replication Best Practice Guide1, some of the reasons why it is recommended to have a Veeam backup server at each of the three sites are: *Each site has production data. This reason is based on the principle of locality, which states that backup data should be stored as close as possible to the source data, to reduce network traffic and latency, and to improve backup and restore speed and efficiency. Having a Veeam backup server at each site allows you to perform local backups of the production data at each site, without having tocross the WAN or VPN connections between sites. Topic 1, Veeam University Hospital Executive Overview: Veeam University Hospital is a healthcare network with located is Boston, Salt Lake City and Columbus. They are considered a pioneer in breakthrough treatments to many illnesses and recognized worldwide as a leader in their field. They have decided to modernize their data protection strategy due to new regulatory requirements as well as ever evolving malware issues. They suffereda ransomware attack recently as well, which affected several systems with patient treatment. Furthermore, they have expressed interest in replication of virtual workloads between sites in case of a disaster to allow for timely failover between sites with would ensure continuity in the level of patient care offered. Their board of directors is concerned that all virtual workloads at this point can be considered a single point of failure. Veeam University Hospital has also been experiencing issues with the time required to back up NAS systems. Not only are they taking too long, the amount of space required is considered excessive, and a reduction of storage space for these backups is desired. Veeam University Hospital had issues with the time required to restore Exchange items. The current solution will only restore entire mailboxes, and no granularity is possible. For this implementation to be successful, backups must complete in the allotted backup window, and the recovery of data should be faster than the current solution, which can amount to 24 to 48 hours for a full system restore. Solution Concept: Veeam University Hospital is replacing their current backup solution Veeam. They plan to protect data at all three sites, with backups copied off-site for disaster recovery purposes. They have also expressed an interest in taking action to prevent another data lost due to ransomware. The offenders were also able to encrypt the existing backups as part of the attack, so data recovery is impossible. Veeam University Hospital is also interested in any posible public cloud technologies that might help mitigate this risk. In addition, replication of running workloads to secondary sites will also be implemented to allow for site failover in the event of a disaster for reduced down time. Existing Technical Environment: Veeam University Hospital has VMware cluster in all locations. For security purposes, each cluster is dedicated to the department that it servers. No communication between cluster is possible. These cluster are broken into two categories, one hosting database workloads and the other hosting general use virtual machines. Confidential patient data exists on several NAS systems as unstructured data. These NAS systems are only presenting backups to ensure consistency of the database. Veeam University Hospital has an in-house patient database required a custom script to be execute before backups to ensure consistency of the database. MSSQL and Oracle are used by most of the departments, with a mix of virtual and physical deployments. Each site as a 10 GbE link to the public internet, and all traffic between sites is routed through these connections via VPN. Each site has 20 vLANs in use, with 16 being used for VMware workloads. For security and regulatory purposes, all vLANs are firewalled off from each other. The current backups write to NFS storage. All doctor and lab staff are assigned their laptops, which will also need to be protected. The location of data on these devices is enforced through group policy, and consistent throughout the organization. No current disaster recovery solution, apart from restoring from backup files, exists at this time. Business Requirements: Any new solution must take advantage of automation and self-service functionality. Both features are needed to cut down on administrative costs. Role based access (RBAC) is mandatory. Forexample, only Oracle administrators can have the ability to perform self-service restore of Oracle Data. Mission critical applications must not be impacted during business hours. All backups must complete between 6 p.m. and 8 a.m. local time. To meet regulatory requirements all data must be retained for three years. For archival purposes, 12 monthly backups and three yearly backups must be stored offsite. Veeam University Hospital will only purchase on-premises storage to accommodate growth for three years of backup retention. For any replicated virtual workloads, the data must not more than one hour old. Due regulatory requirements, all protected data must be encrypted in flight and rest. To meet customer service-level agreements, a commercially available helpdesk ticketing system is in use. All alerts generated must be integrated with this system to create support tickets. Technical requirements: Backups must take advantage of public cloud storage for long term archival purposes. The solution must keep a local backup and be able to create an additional copy of production data. Both backups should reside on site with production systems being protected. For quick restores and recovery, at least copy of protected data must reside on-premises. Due to the threat of ransomware, at least one immutable or air gapped copy of protected data must reside off-side. To ensure data integrity, backups must be verified and scanned for malware before any restore Is performed. In addition to Self-service Oracle restores, native Oracle tools must be available and PowerShell script ready to perform ad-hoc backups and restores. The backup solution must support VMware encrypted datastores. Backups must be stored in logical scalable storage systems that can be expanded non-disruptively. For end user laptop backups, only user data should be backed up. Operating system files should be excluded. Personal files such as music, photos, and videos must be excluded for backup.
Question 19
Veeam Life and Indemnity informs you that they have experienced issues with the time to back up file data from the existing legacy NAS backup. The NAS is being backed up at file level with a low change rate. The source capacity to back up is 12 TB connected to a 10 GbE switch over eight hours. What assumptions about the current environment could you draw from this?
Correct Answer: D
Question 20
Which of the following could cause failures to meet the requirement to test gold tier backups?
Correct Answer: B
Explanation A possible cause of failures to meet the requirement to test gold tier backups is that you cannot firewall traffic between vLANs in the SureBackup job configuration. This could prevent the gold tier virtual machines from communicating with each other or with other required services in the isolated virtual lab. For example, if a gold tier virtual machine needs to access a database server or a domain controller in another vLAN, it might fail to start or function properly in the SureBackup job. Therefore, it is important to ensure that all necessary vLANs and network settings are configured correctly in the SureBackup job.
