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
Author: David Ball
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
10/17/2017 – VMware Quick Tips
Had a couple minor issues in today when working with and in the vSphere web client: Shockwave Flash has crashed When logging into the vSphere Web Client, I received a message indicating "Shockwave Flash has crashed" as shown below: What I should have done is used the HTML5 version, but instead I came across VMware … Continue reading 10/17/2017 – VMware Quick Tips
XenDesktop 7.14 – Blank Spaces on Multi-Monitor Displays
If you are configuring multi-monitor end user stations to connect to Citrix XenDesktop virtual desktops, you may find blank/black spaces on the some or all of the monitors...something like this: On the VDI image, I installed the Citrix 7.14 VDA. Thus, to resolve this issue I did the following: Open the registry (regedit) and navigate … Continue reading XenDesktop 7.14 – Blank Spaces on Multi-Monitor Displays
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!!!
Change RAM allocated to VMs within Citrix Machine Catalogs
This may be one of those posts that ends up being more beneficial for me than you in that what follows here is the type of information/tweak I'll forget about pretty quickly. Then I'll need it again and slap myself for not writing it down, leading me to do several Google searches until I find … Continue reading Change RAM allocated to VMs within Citrix Machine Catalogs
Citrix Receiver Command Line Helper Tool
Do you ever find yourself installing Citrix Receiver? Maybe you've found this to be true, especially in business use cases, but I have found that if I don't install the Receiver with command line options it does not work the way I need or want it to. I also find myself getting frustrated when trying … Continue reading Citrix Receiver Command Line Helper Tool
“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