Author: David Ball

AWS re:Invent Notes: FSV301 — Security Anti-Patterns: Mistakes to Avoid

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Before you read any further, I want to make it clear once again, that these are my notes from the AWS re:Invent sessions I'm attending.  I certainly want these to be helpful and informative, I hope they fuel your desire to learn more about AWS, I just don't want you to take them "as gospel … Continue reading AWS re:Invent Notes: FSV301 — Security Anti-Patterns: Mistakes to Avoid

Part 5 – Veeam and AWS Tape Gateway Integration – Creating Backup Jobs

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On the 5th and final part of this series, we’ll look at creating backup jobs and accessing archived tapes.  Links for parts 1-4 are shown below: Post 1 – Deploying the Tape Gateway Post 2 – Creating Tapes Post 3 – Attaching the VTL to Windows Post 4 - Connect Veeam to VTL Creating Tape Media … Continue reading Part 5 – Veeam and AWS Tape Gateway Integration – Creating Backup Jobs

Part 4 – Veeam and AWS Tape Gateway Integration – Connect Veeam to VTL

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On the 4th part of this series, we’ll look at adding an AWS Tape Gateway VTL into our Veeam infrastructure as well performing some basic tape functions.  Links for parts 1-3 are shown below: Post 1 - Deploying the Tape Gateway Post 2 - Creating Tapes Post 3 - Attaching the VTL to Windows Adding … Continue reading Part 4 – Veeam and AWS Tape Gateway Integration – Connect Veeam to VTL

Part 3 – Veeam and AWS Tape Gateway Integration – Attaching the VTL to Windows

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This post, attaching a Virtual Tape Library (VTL) to a Windows server, is the third in the series in regards to integrating Veeam with an AWS tape gateway.  Here are links to the previous posts: Post 1 - Deploying the Tape Gateway Post 2 - Creating Tapes As just mentioned, to this point we've deployed … Continue reading Part 3 – Veeam and AWS Tape Gateway Integration – Attaching the VTL to Windows

Part 2 – Veeam and AWS Tape Gateway Integration – Creating Tapes

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The diagram shown below, taken from Veeam's AWS/VTL Deployment Guide, is a representation of the infrastructure we are creating in this series: In part 1 of the Veeam and AWS Tape Gateway integration series, we looked at the process of deploying the AWS Tape Gateway OVF (Gateway VM) on VMware vSphere.  In this post, we'll … Continue reading Part 2 – Veeam and AWS Tape Gateway Integration – Creating Tapes

AWS – Access Denied when Adding AD Trust Relationship

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Late yesterday I decided to create an AWS Microsoft AD Directory Service.  The task itself is pretty straightforward and I had no problems with the deployment process.  A task that should be equally straightforward is setting up a trust relationship with an existing AD domain.  A task that should take about 5 minutes ended up … Continue reading AWS – Access Denied when Adding AD Trust Relationship

Part 1 – Veeam and AWS Tape Gateway Integration – Deploying the Tape Gateway

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As I'm sure many of you are, I've been working on ways to effectively harness the power of the cloud.  One idea I decided to pursue was integrating an AWS Tape Gateway with an on-prem Veeam infrastructure in order to move my archived backup data from my local datacenter to AWS S3 storage. Now, I'll … Continue reading Part 1 – Veeam and AWS Tape Gateway Integration – Deploying the Tape Gateway

AWS – Error Importing Certificate Private Key

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In order to use AWS application load balancers for HTTPS traffic, you'll need to import your certificate into AWS using the AWS Certificate Manager (ACM). My certificate was originally installed onto a Windows IIS server and was exported as a PFX file.  Naturally this is not the right format for importing into ACM so this … Continue reading AWS – Error Importing Certificate Private Key