Information Technology and Communications

Designing Backup Systems for Virtual Environments

Develop the judgement and the documentation needed to run virtual environment backup properly.

  • 5training days
  • 4modules
  • 8sessions
  • 32topics
View packages and pricesCourse outline
Designing Backup Systems for Virtual Environments
5days

About the programme

Course Overview

Most outages involving virtual environment backup are triggered by a change somebody considered routine. Systems supporting the wider technology and systems delivery agenda fail in ways that are obvious afterwards and invisible before. The professional literature on the technology and systems delivery capability converges on a small set of controls that reliably work. It suits anyone whose decisions touch virtual environment backup, in large organisations and small ones alike. They leave able to brief senior management on this strand of technology and systems delivery in terms that support a decision. The course sets out a working method for the technology and systems delivery discipline that participants can apply the week they return. Progress on virtual environment backup is usually lost in the gap between approval and execution. Work is grounded in real cases drawn from this part of technology and systems delivery, which each participant adapts to conditions in their own organisation. Participants leave with a plan for the wider technology and systems delivery agenda sized to what their organisation can realistically absorb.

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Measure delivery and reliability of virtual environment backup with indicators teams trust.

  • Adapt recognised practice on virtual environment backup to local constraints without hollowing it out.

  • Apply data protection and retention requirements within virtual environment backup.

  • Reduce avoidable variation in how virtual environment backup is carried out across teams.

  • Control technical debt in virtual environment backup deliberately rather than by neglect.

  • Sequence improvements to virtual environment backup so that each step makes the next one easier.

  • Plan capacity for virtual environment backup against measured growth rather than optimism.

Who Should Attend

  • Database administrators managing data within virtual environment backup.

  • Quality and test engineers verifying virtual environment backup.

  • Business partners who must understand virtual environment backup well enough to challenge it.

  • Solution architects designing virtual environment backup.

  • Project managers delivering changes to virtual environment backup.

  • Department heads accountable for the results of virtual environment backup.

Course Modules

Open any module to see its sessions and topics.

01

Virtual environment backup: security, identity and least privilege

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Dependencies and supply chain risk in virtual environment backup

  • Reduce the variation in how virtual environment backup is carried out between teams.
  • Set the review interval for virtual environment backup and who attends.
  • Inventory third-party dependencies inside virtual environment backup and their update status.
  • State the availability and recovery objectives for virtual environment backup as numbers.

Session 2What has to be agreed before work on virtual environment backup starts

  • Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to virtual environment backup.
  • Check that records of virtual environment backup answer the questions likely to be asked.
  • Measure current load on virtual environment backup and project it forward twelve months.
  • Document the runbook for virtual environment backup to the level a new engineer could use.
02

Virtual environment backup: capacity, performance and load

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Least privilege in virtual environment backup without blocking the work

  • Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in virtual environment backup.
  • Plan the sequence in which improvements to virtual environment backup will be introduced.
  • Estimate the resource virtual environment backup requires to run as designed.
  • Define incident severity levels for virtual environment backup and the response each triggers.

Session 2Keeping virtual environment backup alive after the initial push

  • Rehearse the briefing on virtual environment backup that would follow an incident.
  • Record the technical debt in virtual environment backup and schedule repayment.
  • Restore a backup of virtual environment backup in a test environment and time it.
  • Confirm the support model and escalation path for virtual environment backup.
03

Virtual environment backup: requirements, targets and service levels

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Sizing capacity for virtual environment backup on measured growth

  • Review whether virtual environment backup is aligned with the objectives of the technical platform.
  • Apply change control to virtual environment backup including emergency changes.
  • Confirm data retention and deletion rules applied within virtual environment backup.
  • Verify six months later that changes to virtual environment backup have held.

Session 2Monitoring virtual environment backup from the user's point of view

  • Confirm that those complying with virtual environment backup understand why it exists.
  • Test the failover for virtual environment backup rather than assuming it works.
  • Establish what evidence demonstrates virtual environment backup is under control.
  • Review access rights on virtual environment backup and remove what is no longer needed.
04

Virtual environment backup: build, pipeline and release discipline

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Where virtual environment backup typically breaks, and why

  • Anticipate the objections virtual environment backup will raise and prepare the answers.
  • Identify the single points of failure in virtual environment backup.
  • Configure alerting on virtual environment backup that reflects what users experience.
  • Map the handovers in virtual environment backup between functions and secure them.

Session 2Retiring the legacy part of virtual environment backup

  • Review logging on virtual environment backup for coverage and retention.
  • Run a load test on virtual environment backup at expected peak plus a margin.
  • Rank the weaknesses in virtual environment backup by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
  • Identify where judgement in virtual environment backup is legitimate and where it is not.

Choose the package that suits you

Silver Package

At least 3 people

USD1,250
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

Gold Package

At least 3 people

USD1,850
  • 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

Complete your registration

We will contact you within one business day to confirm.

Share this course

🔗 Short link
View packages and prices

✆