A daily backup job for seven Hyper-V VMs has been configured at the main site, keeping 14 days’ worth of backup files. They want to get a copy of the VM backups to a repository at the disaster recovery site. They want to keep six months’ worth of backup files at the disaster recovery site. They also need to be able to restore the VMs to any given day within two months and any given week within six months. How should a backup copy job be configured to meet these requirements?
The requirements are to keep six months’ worth of backup files at the disaster recovery site and have the ability to restore the VMs to any given day within two months and any given week within six months. Immediate copy (mirroring) mode with 62 days of retention meets the requirement of restoring to any given day within two months. Keeping 26 weekly GFS (Grandfather-Father-Son) restore points ensures the restoration capability for any given week within six months, as 26 weeks correspond to approximately six months.
A company needs several VMware thick provisioned VMs restored. The physical proxies used for restoration have access to the Fibre Channel datastores used by VMware. Which transport mode will be used by default to restore these VMs?
When restoring VMware thick provisioned VMs, and the physical proxies used for restoration have access to the Fibre Channel datastores, the default transport mode used is Direct Storage Access. This mode leverages the direct SAN (Storage Area Network) access for performing data operations directly between the datastores and the proxy servers, bypassing the need through the ESXi host, which optimizes the performance and reduces the load on the network.
A director in a business needs a folder of traffic photos restored from a Linux server. This machine sits on a VM backed up by Veeam Backup & Replication. The director wants the files restored to their original location and does not want to lose the original files. What functionality will be used to restore the folder using the Veeam Guest OS restoration wizard?
To restore the folder to its original location without losing the original files, you should use the 'Keep' function. This functionality ensures that the original files remain untouched while the restored files are placed alongside them, avoiding any loss or modification of the existing data.
15 VMs are running on a Hyper-V platform and five physical servers at a remote office (ROBO). The administrator has been tasked with setting up centralized off-site backups at the headquarters (HQ). The available bandwidth is 50 Mbps. RPO is set to six hours and the data generated for the interval is 500 GB. WAN accelerators can be added if necessary. Which of the following will achieve the RPO?
The best way to achieve the Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of six hours, given the 50 Mbps bandwidth and 500 GB of data generated in that interval, is to use backup copy jobs with a copy mode set to "immediate copy" and enable WAN acceleration. Immediate copy ensures that the data is copied as soon as it is created, which helps in meeting the strict RPO requirement. WAN acceleration optimizes data transfer by reducing the amount of data that needs to be transmitted over the network, thus making it feasible to transfer 500 GB within the available bandwidth constraints.
A file on a Windows VM hosted on vSphere is corrupted and must be restored. VMware tools are installed and up to date on the VM. For some reason, the Veeam mount server cannot connect to the VM through the network. Which of the following restore methods provides the fastest restore (RTO)?
To restore a file on a Windows VM hosted on vSphere where the Veeam mount server cannot connect to the VM through the network, leveraging VMware Tools with VIX (VMware VIX API, which allows commands to be run inside VMs) would provide the fastest restore method. Since VMware Tools are installed and up to date, using the Veeam file restore wizard to restore through VIX does not require network connectivity and allows direct file restoration on the VM. This minimizes any intermediaries and avoids the complexity of other options, making it the quickest method for achieving a fast restore time objective (RTO).