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leduardoserrano
leduardoserranoVeeam Vanguard
posted in Kubernetes Korner

Demonstration: Deploy an EKS cluster, Kasten, and PacMan with AWS CloudShell

I think we really need to organize a Kubernetes Pac-Man championship! 😁. Maybe a booth in the HOL at VeeamON, i.e. build your cluster, deploy pac-man, then play for points to win SWAG!! 

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Julia F Morgado
2 months ago
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

Ootbi meets the Veeam Community Hub

Really want to get my hands on a unit to test. 😂 🤣Is that not too much to ask for?  I meant for my company not me. 😜😂 You are on the secret list that is up for approval soo :) , well not so secret now. By the way if anyone is interested in getting on the list DM me. Obviously if you are consultant, VASP or someone who might actually use these or advise people to use them (after you are satisfied with them) then make sure you mention that and I can push that as well :)  Secret list you say… 🤔 Thanks for the quick intro of OOTBI, been very interested in them for a few months now after talking to their stall at VeeamOn 2023 Not really, my attempts at firing up interest. Basically if anyone is interested DM me. There is definitely a place for some demo units to be out there with some Vanguards and Leg

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Scott
2 months ago
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Kubernetes Korner

Go Completely Container Crazy with linuxserver.io!

Very interesting topic for sure but damn that was a long post. 😜🤣 And I had to stop myself too. A few other images in there are very interesting. Keep in mind there is not state so anything you create will be gone if you restart the container. However, you can add a pvc 😁. I might do that next time for the libreoffice pod then save a doc and then bring it up in my laptop word application.

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Geoff Burke
3 months ago
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

Ootbi meets the Veeam Community Hub

Really want to get my hands on a unit to test. 😂 🤣Is that not too much to ask for?  I meant for my company not me. 😜😂 You are on the secret list that is up for approval soo :) , well not so secret now. By the way if anyone is interested in getting on the list DM me. Obviously if you are consultant, VASP or someone who might actually use these or advise people to use them (after you are satisfied with them) then make sure you mention that and I can push that as well :) 

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Scott
2 months ago
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards

VMCE Study group?

Let me know if you start with this @Geoff Burke , have to study again this year to get the new VMCE It is coming very soon! I think we can call it VMCE but see no reason why we can’t have VMCA questions, study info etc. Anyways, again we have a go just that they are finalizing some details. Expect news very soon :)  

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coolsport00
27 days ago
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Kubernetes Korner

Very Unfortunate move by the Linux Foundation

Yeah in fact now that I think of it, when it came to getting jobs, it was the Veeam Certifications that they really wanted to know about 😂. My problem is being a bit lazy, so certifications forced me to study. 😎I just think, and this might be uber naive, that if a company offers, cheap, or free training and certs, they can get a flood of new users and folks who know and like their technology. Again this could be the Sys Admin in me talking, not the evil venture capitalist entrepreneur 😂 who I am still yet to find in my psyche. 

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Chris.Childerhose
3 months ago
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Kubernetes Korner

Very Unfortunate move by the Linux Foundation

Saw this news earlier today 😞 have they elaborated on their renewal process and costs? Microsoft renewals last a year but they’re free which I don’t mind as it just requires some effort to remain aligned to the technology after certification.   Theres a general training = revenue stream attitude taking place in the industry but let’s be honest how much has changed in Linux in the past 2 years to warrant recertification? Did not hear anything about this, i.e. free renewal so I believe you still have to shell out $400 US,  I think as @Iams3le  said it is all about money :(

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Chris.Childerhose
3 months ago
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Kubernetes Korner

Very Unfortunate move by the Linux Foundation

Certifications I found very beneficial. For one they force me to study areas that I might not necessarily if I was just dealing with production. Secondly there has to be some kind of standard otherwise everything is based only on your experience, but what if you are new to the job market and have no experience. The problem was not certifications but bad certifications, i.e. the click next next ones and get a prize type of thing. The CKA CKAD were hard certs to earn. If you passed them then one knew you had at least a certain level of knowledge. I think the truth lies somewhere in the middle. By the way I would argue that in North America there is not much respect for certifications either :)   

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Chris.Childerhose
3 months ago
leduardoserrano
leduardoserranoVeeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards

Dozens of VMware perpetual solutions/licenses are end-of-sale

Honestly when CEOs make statements like “get your butts back into the office” that tells me a lot about a company. All the details afterwards become secondary and I can expect that if they don’t respect their staff they sure as heck are not going to respect customers, at least not the mid to smaller ones. I have seen this time and time again. Maybe I am just getting too old but it is much, much tougher to be polite, much, much tougher to remain civil when you get angry, but alas that is what the huge executive pay cheques are supposed to demand, after all if you want a loud hot head as CEO you could just hire me 😁 or the drunk down the street who I often hear screaming at the garbage cans.This really comes from lessons I learned in the playground. No one says that you can’t create tough rules, no one says that if you own something you can’t do what you want. However, the way you do these things speaks volumes. In my work life I have had some very tough bosses. Often they would see the

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dloseke
2 months ago
Madi.Cristil
Madi.CristilCommunity Manager
published in News

Linux OS, VDP AWS workloads and Veeam ONE UpgradeVeeam Community Recap #149

In relation to the Kube Korner show, Nick my guest works with BORG! Yes Borg which is the predecessor to Kubernetes, so this will be very interesting. Of course he won’t be able to share top secrets :). Still should be interesting.https://kubernetes.io/blog/2015/04/borg-predecessor-to-kubernetes/

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wolff.mateus
3 months ago
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
asked in Cyber Security Space

Anyone else here have a membership to ComptiaISAO?

I did the A+ back when they asked about parallel ports for printers. Yeah the security area is pretty impressive and the constant threat alerts pretty eye opening. I was on the Monthly call yesterday and found it pretty fascinating. Again though the amount of bad stuff happening out there is hard to fathom. https://connect.comptia.org/connect/public-sector/public-technology-institute/comptia-isaohttps://connect.comptia.org/content/articles/what-is-an-isao

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dloseke
2 months ago
A
ArinComes here often
asked in Discussion Boards

prevent admins from deleting backups

side note make sure you have added some other admins before turning on four eyes :). I have heard of a few Veeam cases already when Admins turned this on but only had 2 eyes in their systems. 

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coolsport00
2 months ago
dloseke
dlosekeVeeam Legend
asked in Discussion Boards

Immutability flag for copy to S3-compatible (Wasabi) is much longer than what is set in the Repository

Also Wasabi has some specifications as well:   https://knowledgebase.wasabi.com/hc/en-us/articles/360058734492-How-does-Wasabi-s-minimum-storage-duration-policy-work-   Thanks Geoff, this is a good point, but I don’t think it applies here.  We were initially using pay-go but I had support convert my account from 90 days to 30 days at the beginning, and we have since converted to RCS...although, I need to go back and look but the date looks suspect to approximately when we converted to RCS.  Still, even 90 days immutability wouldn’t push me out to October. good point. I know some people here had some issues and the support folks at Wasabi were very responsive… and yeah October :) I keep thinking it is 2023 fall still 

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coolsport00
2 months ago
dloseke
dlosekeVeeam Legend
asked in Discussion Boards

Immutability flag for copy to S3-compatible (Wasabi) is much longer than what is set in the Repository

Also Wasabi has some specifications as well: https://knowledgebase.wasabi.com/hc/en-us/articles/360058734492-How-does-Wasabi-s-minimum-storage-duration-policy-work-

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coolsport00
2 months ago
Madi.Cristil
Madi.CristilCommunity Manager
published in Blogs and Podcasts

Veeam 100 Show- Fourth Episode- Veeam Beyond the ClicksVeeam 100 Show #4

Really enjoyed this one folks! Very informative!

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CarySun
3 months ago
Iams3le
Iams3leVeeam Legend
posted in Cyber Security Space

Plan your backup Architecture: Achieve Zero Trust Trust Data Resilience

This is a great article! You have covered all the points. I will underline again and again the segmentation component. Keep you backups storage separately and make sure to be adhering to the 3 2 1 rule or even the 3 2 1 1 0 rule  

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dloseke
3 months ago
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Cyber Security Space

Interesting site showing Ransomware stats and locations

Hi Everyone, A colleague of mine found this, a recent ransomware attack visualized map of the US. Would be interesting if anyone has a “world view” as well.   https://www.comparitech.com/ransomware-attack-map/ The same org has a Worldwide https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/global-ransomware-attacks/ ha I should have done a search on the site :) 

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Iams3le
3 months ago
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Kubernetes Korner

CKS KIllershell course now Free

Thanks Geoff.    That’s a reasonable price for a cert, if it’s related to your work or job hunt! but the full price is $395. I get if you work pays for it but if not very steep :) 

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Geoff Burke
3 months ago
A
ArinComes here often
asked in Discussion Boards

Is WAN accelerators only useful for backing up VMs and OS's ?

As was stated, they won’t work with agents. You need to have them on both ends of the connection. I honestly never got much use out of them. In fact I saw them more as a WAN cache which had value when Telco’s were charging for the amount of data being transferred but did not see performance increases. There is the new High Bandwidth mode which I never used extensively, just remember that has to be set at both ends for it to work otherwise it defaults back to the normal mode.

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coolsport00
2 months ago
kristofpoppe
kristofpoppeVeeam Vanguard
asked in Discussion Boards

Extract data from backup in S3 Object storage created by Windows endpoint backup

one more thought was about what the Wasabi logs said https://knowledgebase.wasabi.com/hc/en-us/articles/5779793361563-How-to-view-Wasabi-Bucket-Logs-using-Log-Tool-?source=search

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Geoff Burke
3 months ago
kristofpoppe
kristofpoppeVeeam Vanguard
asked in Discussion Boards

Extract data from backup in S3 Object storage created by Windows endpoint backup

@kristofpoppe you might want to add your experience to this thread in the R&D forums as you should be able to add the bucket to a new server without any issues: https://forums.veeam.com/object-storage-as-a-backup-target-f52/veeam-12-sobr-with-vmware-and-wasabi-restore-testing-issues-and-questions-t89194.html

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Geoff Burke
3 months ago
Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
published in News

2024 Plans, 12.1 Tips and a Special GuestVeeam Community Recap #148

That was really fun team! Hey @Geoff Burke green suits you very well! :)   I will take anything that makes me look younger 😂

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leduardoserrano
3 months ago
Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
published in News

2024 Plans, 12.1 Tips and a Special GuestVeeam Community Recap #148

Hi Folks, that was a lot of fun. @Rick Vanover is too humble that studio is first class and getting everything to work would require a degree in audio/visual engineering in my opinion but he did it! Again thank you so much for having me! @Madi.Cristil @safiya @Rick Vanover you folks make working fun, one simply does not want to stop! 

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leduardoserrano
3 months ago
michaelcade
michaelcadeProduct Strategy
posted in Kubernetes Korner

2024 - The learning journey continues...

Excellent post and very useful. One of the issues in today’s IT is the sheer abundance of learning tools out there. Many are free. So the obvious question that arises is “what should I study?”. This is where mentorship and leadership is so crucial. Our time to study is a very finite thing and so one needs to spend it carefully. I recently saw a video about an 78 year old man who everyday does calisthenics and has at least 3 study programs ongoing. When asked what is the point at this stage of your life he answered it is not the end goal that brings happiness it is the process! Just like working out you feel yourself growing and this goes for the mind as well.The one thing I am trying to do is stop doing my wishy washy switching when it comes to some subjects like programming and have now committed to Python until I get to a least some level of competency. This will be a challenge as it does not come easily at all to me (kind of like pullups!) but one must keep going as eventually it be

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amm777
3 months ago
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Kubernetes Korner

Podman Desktop and Minikube a great combination to start your Kubernetes Journey!

Great Stuff Geoff as always…  One word of warning with my Kasten K10 hat on…. Currently Kasten K10 is not working on minikube due to a volumesnapshot issue. K10 can still be deployed to a Minikube cluster using the usual Helm chart deployment but it will not complete a backup.    @DrObject Good to see you, love the idea to kick things off with a RaspberryPi. A word of warning for you though there is that K10 is not ARM supported so be careful with any data services you wish to run and backup.  Interesting. I recently used the csi-hostpath driver in rancher desktop, but I am cloning the latest version from github and installing manually. It could be that minikube are using an older version. Will check that out. Thanks for the heads up as that was going to be next week’s post 😁and I would have been stuck in one of those.. “it worked before.. what the heck” moments. 

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michaelcade
3 months ago

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