Good morning everyone, I'm writing to you this morning from Las Vegas in the AWS re:Invent Certification Lounge and I'm looking forward to getting the most out of this conference. The Certification Lounge is a great place with all kinds of arcade games at ones disposal! My particular weakness, a Ms. Pac Man / Galaga … Continue reading AWS re:Invent 2017 – Day 0
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Part 5 – Veeam and AWS Tape Gateway Integration – Creating Backup Jobs
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
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 2 – Veeam and AWS Tape Gateway Integration – Creating Tapes
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
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
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
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
Happiest Certification Feeling Ever….maybe!!!
I can still kinda, sorta remember the day....the day when, many years ago, I passed the A+ certification exam. Honestly, I "lucked out" in how I got into IT in the first place. I went to UNC-Charlotte (back when there was no football team), finally settling on Marketing as my major because I was sure … Continue reading Happiest Certification Feeling Ever….maybe!!!
“Converting” an Existing EC2 Instance to an Elastic GPU
For some time, I have been running an AWS EC2 G2.2xlarge instance to keep from buying a laptop to run Photoshop. With the introduction of Elastic GPUs, I was interested in "converting" that VM to a T2.large instance with an eg1.large Elastic GPU that I believe should save me about $.40 per hour of operation. … Continue reading “Converting” an Existing EC2 Instance to an Elastic GPU