This post focuses more on a personal problem I experienced some time ago....and some time ago, I did it. After privately swearing to myself that I'd never leave an EC2 instance powered on when not in use, I left one on and paid the price, literally, when my monthly AWS bill was 300% higher than … Continue reading My Poor Man’s AWS Power Management
Veeam 9.5 U3 – Windows Agent Management
With the recent release of Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 3, the ability to manage and control agent based backups directly from the Veeam B&R console is available. This is a great new feature that brings centralized management for any servers running a Veeam agent. Rather than connecting to every agent server, you can … Continue reading Veeam 9.5 U3 – Windows Agent Management
Veeam – Public Cloud Options
Veeam announced this week that they have acquired N2WS Software, which adds to their portfolio a cloud native backup solution specifically for AWS. This acquisition should certainly help Veeam push into the forefront of capabilities in regards to AWS, if not hopefully also speed up the release of the eagerly anticipated v10 of Backup and Replication … Continue reading Veeam – Public Cloud Options
AWS Storage Gateway (Volume) “not ready” when Performing Veeam Backups
The intent of this post isn't necessarily to explain how to use an AWS “Volume” Storage Gateway with Veeam as much as it is sharing a problem I had when trying to perform full backups to the repository that used the volume gateway. If you’re interested, the process of setting up an AWS Volume SG … Continue reading AWS Storage Gateway (Volume) “not ready” when Performing Veeam Backups
2017 Review in Pictures – Las Vegas, NV | AWS re:Invent 2017
I suppose we all have our favorite places to go....personally those cities with MLB baseball teams rank among my favorites, especially if the home team is in town and I can catch a game. Las Vegas (this city itself) however, is not one of my personal favorites though I do like that I can walk … Continue reading 2017 Review in Pictures – Las Vegas, NV | AWS re:Invent 2017
2017 Review in Pictures – San Francisco, CA | VMware EUC PTAB
In June 2017, I had the pleasure of attending the always informative EUC PTAB meetings at VMware HQ in Palo Alto, CA. Not only do you get to interact with partners across the world but you get "futures" from various VMware product groups. This PTAB focused on the EUC product line, focusing primarily on Workspace … Continue reading 2017 Review in Pictures – San Francisco, CA | VMware EUC PTAB
2017 Review in Pictures – New Orleans, LA | VeeamON
On our About page, I mention many things....perhaps bordering on TMI. Do you really care that I have a Stephen A. Smith type affection for Aaron Rodgers?!? If Adam ever comes into work and says to me, "Ben Roethlisberger is a better QB than Aaron Rodgers!", our friendship may end! I'm just kidding of course, … Continue reading 2017 Review in Pictures – New Orleans, LA | VeeamON
AWS – Converting EC2 from an On-Demand to Reserved Instance
I could be dead wrong, but I imagine that many customers begin their AWS journey using on-demand instances in order to "test the water" to avoid making rash long-term commitment. Now let's assume the initial testing of an organizations application(s) in AWS is successful and the organization is ready to go "all in" the cloud, … Continue reading AWS – Converting EC2 from an On-Demand to Reserved Instance
SolidFire Node Replacement
It's been a little while since I've written a new post. It is the result of a combination of forces outside my control, one of which seems to be the holiday season playing it's part in filling up lots of my free time with "stuff" all of a sudden. Then I got an email from … Continue reading SolidFire Node Replacement
5 Questions with…..Jonathan Adair – Sr. Systems Engineer – Nutanix
Some time ago, I mentioned to Adam that I thought it would be fun to do a "5 Questions with....." interview with partners that we meet and/or customers we work with as we are constantly meeting and working with interesting people. The plan is to start the interview with a basic introductory question, then dig … Continue reading 5 Questions with…..Jonathan Adair – Sr. Systems Engineer – Nutanix