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Repository and Storage Management Flashcards

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  1. Which Veeam component is responsible for converting a backup file stored in a repository into a live VM for Instant Recovery?

    Answer: vPower NFS Server

    The vPower NFS Server publishes a virtual NFS datastore backed by the backup file, enabling a hypervisor to boot a VM directly from the repository without restoring to production storage.

  2. When configuring a Veeam repository on a Windows server with an ReFS volume, which capability does Veeam leverage to speed up synthetic full backup creation?

    Answer: ReFS block cloning to copy data blocks without reading and rewriting them

    Veeam uses the ReFS block cloning (copy-on-write) capability to create synthetic full backups by referencing existing data blocks rather than physically copying bytes, dramatically reducing I/O.

  3. A VMCE candidate needs to store backups on a repository that cannot accept new data but must still allow restore operations. Which Veeam repository setting achieves this?

    Answer: Set the repository to read-only mode

    Setting a repository to read-only mode prevents any new backup data from being written while still allowing all restore and export operations to proceed.

  4. What is the purpose of the 'Limit read and write data rates' option available on Veeam backup repositories?

    Answer: It throttles the throughput of data transfer to and from the repository to reduce storage I/O impact

    This I/O throttling option caps the megabytes per second that Veeam uses when reading from or writing to the repository, protecting other workloads sharing the same storage.

  5. Which Veeam backup file format stores all VM data and metadata for an entire backup job in a single VBK file?

    Answer: Per-job backup files (legacy format)

    The per-job (legacy) format combines all VMs within a job into a single VBK full and associated VIB/VRB incremental files, contrasting with per-VM formats that separate each machine.

  6. In Veeam Backup & Replication, what is the function of the 'Align backup file data blocks' repository setting?

    Answer: It aligns VM disk data to 4 KB boundaries to optimize reads on deduplication appliances

    Enabling data block alignment ensures that backup data is written on 4 KB-aligned boundaries, which improves deduplication ratio and I/O performance on storage appliances sensitive to alignment.

  7. What is the minimum Linux kernel version required to enable immutability on a Veeam hardened repository?

    Answer: Kernel 4.9 (Debian 9 default)

    Veeam's hardened repository immutability relies on the chattr immutable flag, which requires a kernel version of 4.9 or newer; Debian 9 / Ubuntu 18.04 LTS kernels meet this requirement.