A post by Martin Hayes Just before the New Year, PowerProtect DDVE on AWS 7.13 dropped. With it came official documented support for AWS S3 Intelligent Tiering. Indeed manual or direct tiering is supported also using S3 Lifecycle Management, but Intelligent Tiering is recommended as it, well just works, and with no nasty retrieval costs…
A guest post by Erik Zandboer In the last episodes we failed an entire datacenter with and without a witness. This time we will be failing a PowerStore array only, and leave all ESXi hosts running. This should trigger an APD (All Paths Down) scenario in the impacted datacenter, and we should see VMware High…
A guest post by Erik Zandboer In the previous episode of breaking stuff we powered off all hosts in one of the datacenters… Not really eventful as we were leaning mostly (if not all) on VMware vSphere’s HA capabilities. Now let’s put thing up a notch… And fail an entire datacenter! In this episode we will break a…
A post by Martin Hayes YAML Cloud formation Script for standing up the base AWS VPC architecture: My last set of blogs concentrated around running through best practices and standing up the AWS infrastructure, so as to get to the point whereby we deployed DDVE in a private subnet, it was protected by a Security group,…
A post by Martin Hayes Firewalling EC2 leveraging Security Groups Quick recap. In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series we concentrated on the relationship between the DDVE software running on EC2 and its target datastore, S3. As with anything cloud based permissions and IAM play a critical role and then we delved into the techniques used to securely…
A post by Martin Hayes Private connectivity from DDVE to S3 leveraging VPC S3 Endpoints. Where we are at ? In Part 1 we talked about securing the relationship between the DDVE instance and the target S3 instance. This was a permissions based approach leveraging the very powerful native IAM features and key management capabilities of AWS. A…
A post by Martin Hayes Dell APEX Protection storage is based on the industry-leading PowerProtect DD Virtual Edition. Going forward Dell will leverage the new branding for the cloud-based offer. In this series of technical blogs, we will look to explore how we can secure its implementation based on industry, Dell and AWS best practices. As…
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After we killed the datacenter interlink in the last episode, today we will be pulling the power from all hosts in one of the twin datacenters and see what will happen. As there is nothing impacting the actual metro storage solution, this will be a complete VMware play where the cluster will have to recover from….
A guest post by Erik Zandboer Now that have are done describing the lab in the last episode, we are ready to go out and break stuff! Today we will be looking at non-eventful failures, and the first we will actually be testing in the lab: What if the interlink fails?!? As always, if you’re not…
