Preface

In recent years, virtualization has taken the data center by storm and revolutionized how data centers are being run. The opportunities presented by virtualization give us the ability to run a dynamic data center, with quick provisioning of new applications and capabilities. To be able to keep up with this ever-changing environment, your backup infrastructure needs to be able to grow with you and provide the same kind of flexibility.

Learning Veeam^? Backup & Replication for VMware vSphere provides the basic information required to get you up and running with arguably the best data protection software available for VMware vSphere virtualized environments. Veeam^? Backup & Replication v7 operates at the virtualization layer without the need to deploy backup agents to the VMs and the applications it protects. It accomplishes this by utilizing the built-in functionality of the hypervisor, thus reducing complexity and implementation overhead.

The backups are set up as job-driven processes, where a single backup job can be configured to back up one or more VMs in a single job. The backup job defines when, what, and how the backup is performed as well as its target storage location—the backup repository.