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Integrating Dell PowerProtect Data Manager with Red Hat OpenShift and Dell Powerstore
Part 2: Failure and Recovery P.S….shorter blog this time but longer video demo at the end of the post……. In Part 1, we got to the point where we configured and manually kicked off a ‘Protection Job’. Next up we…
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Integrating Dell PowerProtect Data Manager with Red Hat OpenShift and Dell Powerstore
The interest in OpenShift and OpenShift virtualization in particular has increased steadily over the last year or so as administrators and IT decision makers are looking at more choice in the Hypervisor market (we don’t have to rehash the VMware/Broadcom…
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Power Protect Data Manager Release 19.18 Highlights
Power Protect Data Manager 19.18 dropped earlier today. A fair bit to unpack but 3 main highlights for me. I hope to delve into more detail around these (especially around the exciting new anomaly detection feature) in future posts. In…
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Protecting Rancher RKE2 On-Premise Kubernetes Workloads with Dell PowerProtect Manager: Part 4 Discovering & Protecting Kubernetes Assets.
Recap of where we are at: Nearly there, we have the following in place: Production Environment: Rancher Managed RKE2 Cluster deployed. Link to blog post here. Dell CSI for PowerScale configured to present persistent storage to our environment. An application…
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Protecting Rancher RKE2 On-Premise Kubernetes Workloads with Dell PowerProtect Manager: Part 3 PowerScale CSI Integration.
So a very quick recap of where we are at: In Part 1, we stood up the Rancher Manager and deployed our 3 Node bare-Metal RKE2 cluster. In Part 2, we deployed Dell PowerProtect Data Manager 19.17 and paired it…
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Protecting Rancher RKE2 On-Premise Kubernetes Workloads with Dell PowerProtect Manager: Part 2 Standing Up PPDM and APEX Protection Storage.
In Part 1, we stood up the Rancher managed RKE2 in our vSphere environment (mirroring a bare metal deployment). The next step is to set up the protection infrastructure, namely Dell PowerProtect Data Manager and On-Prem Dell APEX Protection Storage…
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Protecting Rancher RKE2 On-Premise Kubernetes workloads with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager
Part 1: Deploy RKE2 with SUSE Rancher Late last year I did a series on protecting EKS based cloud workloads in AWS using DDVE and PPDM, or to give its official term, Dell APEX Protection Storage for AWS. This was…
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Unpacking DTW 2024. The Dell AI Factory. Infrastructure and the importance of the Network
Quite a bit to unpack here, but I’ll do my best. First things first though, it is becoming increasingly clear that network fabrics are key components to the performance of AI Compute Clusters. AI Fabrics demand special requirements such as…
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Introducing the new PowerProtect DD9910 and DD9410 with DDOS 8.0.0.10
The release of DD OS 8.0 (let’s call it that for short), late last month, was major release that introduced some significant security, cloud and manageability enhancements. I will unpack these in a little more detail in the following few…
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Dell Apex Protection Storage – Optimise backup cost with AWS S3 Intelligent Tiering and DDVE 7.13
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…
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Protecting AWS EKS Container/Kubernetes workloads with Dell APEX Protection Storage – PPDM – Part 3
In part 1 and 2 of this series we provided an overview of how we would stand up a basic EKS Kubernetes cluster, configure all the associated IAM and security policies, and finally the installation of the AWS native CSI…
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Protecting AWS EKS Container/Kubernetes workloads with Dell PPDM -Part 2
In the previous post we set up a very basic EKS environment with 2 EC2 worker nodes. Before we deploy a real application on this cluster and back it up using PPDM and DDVE, we will need to install the…
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Dell APEX Protection Storage
Protecting AWS EKS Container/Kubernetes workloads – Part 1 Introduction In my last series of posts, we concentrated on setting up the backend AWS infrastructure and deploying PPDM with DDVE, both via the GUI and IAC ( Cloudformation, YAML etc.). So…
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APEX Protection Storage for Public Cloud: Build your DDVE and PPDM Playground Part 2
Extended IAC YAML Script – Adds everything else to the recipe. Short post this week. My last blog post leveraged AWS CloudFormation and a YAML script to stand up the basic architecture required to deploy DDVE and PPDM in an…
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APEX Protection Storage for Public Cloud: Build your DDVE and PPDM Playground.
YAML Cloudformation 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…
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APEX Protection Storage for Public Cloud: DDVE on AWS End to End Installation Demo
Part 4: Automated Infrastructure as Code with AWS CloudFormation The last in this series of blog posts. I’ll keep the written piece brief, given that the video is 24 minutes long. It passes quickly I promise! The original intent of…
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APEX Protection Storage for Public Cloud: Securing the AWS Environment – Part 3
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…
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APEX Protection Storage for Public Cloud: Securing the AWS Environment – Part 2
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…
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APEX Protection Storage: Securing the AWS Environment
Part 1: Policy Based Access Control to the S3 Object Store 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…
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Dell Tech World Zero Trust Update: Project Zero Fort
Followers of my blog will be very aware of the emphasis I have been placing on the emergence of Zero Trust. Back in October 2022, Dell announced the partnership with MISI and CyberPoint International to power the Zero Trust Center…
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Identity Management 101 – A Zero Trust 7 Pillar Primer
In a previous post, I talked pretty exhaustively about how we came to the point where the need for a Zero Trust Architecture has become obvious. The process of de-perimiterisation has, to all intents and purposes rendered many of the…
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Introducing Dell PowerProtect Cyber Recovery 19.13 and Cybersense 8.2
Late last week, Dell dropped its newest release of its Cyber Recovery Management software, Dell PowerProtect Cyber Recovery 19.13. Here is the link to the latest set of release notes (note you will need a registered logon to access). A…
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NIS 2: Regulating the Cyber Security of Critical Infrastructure across the EU
What is Directive (EU) 2022/2555 and why it matters? Everybody should be aware of the White House Executive order (EO 14028) and the mandate to strengthen security across the federal landscape and by definition the enterprise. However, on this side…
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Boxes and Lines: Whiteboard Nugget 1 Dell Trusted Infrastructure
Introducing the ‘Boxes and Lines’ Whiteboard Nugget Series I’ve been spending a lot more time in the office recently and naturally I’m tending to bump into colleagues and fellow team members in the corridor ( I know maybe I should…
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Why Dell Zero Trust? Disappearing Perimeters
Just after the New Year, I caught up with a work colleague of mine and I started to chat about all the good work we are doing in Dell with regards Zero Trust and the broader Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA)…
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Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
A guest contribution by Shakita DennisChain and Marshal Savage. (They did all the heavy lifting with the great video content below). This post appeared originally on one of the other Blogs I contribute to: Engineeringtechnologists.com. I strongly recommend you head…
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PowerProtect Cyber Recovery Release 19.12 + CyberSense 8.0 : AWS GovCloud + CyberSense on AWS
Last week Dell released the much anticipated version 19.12 of the Cyber Recovery Solution. Obviously, one of the clear highlights was the ability to deploy the Cyber Recovery solution on Google Cloud Platform. The solution leverages PowerProtect DD Virtual Edition…
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Introducing Dell PowerProtect Cyber Recovery Part 3 – Setting up the Production Side – Protecting VM Workload with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager
As discussed in the previous post , the Dell Cyber recovery solution is underpinned by Data Domain. I need a Data Domain appliance in the production side that will replicate to a Data Domain appliance in the secure Vault using…
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Introducing Dell PowerProtect Cyber Recovery Part 2 – Setting up the Production Side (DDVE)
Last week we overviewed the big picture (Diagram Below), and very briefly discussed the end to end flow (Steps 1 through 6) During this post we will start to break this up into consumable chunks and digest in a little…
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Introducing Dell PowerProtect Cyber Recovery – Architecture Basics – A Practical Example
Vault 101 – Simple Questions, Simple Answers We all suffer from terminology/lingo/jargon overload when discussing something new and multi-faceted, especially in the information security space. I am all too often guilty of venturing far too easily into the verbose depths………
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Blog Post Zero: A Framework for Cyber Resilience 101
I’m sure at this stage that everybody is very much aware of the increased threat of ransomware based cyber-attack, and the importance of cyber security. To that end, and to the relief of all, I’m going to pleasantly surprise everybody…
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Optimising Data Center Fabrics for Generative AI Workloads. Why?
‘Traditional network fabrics are ill equipped to deal with the performance and scale requirements demanded by the rapid emergence of Generative AI (Gen-AI)’. That’s the common refrain… but hang on a minute, my current network infrastructure supports every other workload…
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Power Protect Data Manager 19.17 Release Highlights – Storage Direct.
PPDM 19.17 dropped earlier today. Pick of the a pretty big bunch for me were the storage array integrations. Storage Direct with PowerStore enhancements. Storage Direct capability has been around with PPDM for a while now offering PowerStore platform support.…
