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FIPS error creating virtual lab

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Hello,

I am having a strange message when creating a virutal lab on Veeam 5.

During the creation of the virutal lab at the "copying proxy appliance files" step it throws an error message of:

"This Implementation is not part of the WIndows FIPS validated Cryptographic alorithms"

I experienced this and there are several forum messages in relation to Enterprise Manger. I resolved it for VBEM by making the change to the web.config file.

However, I can't find any references to this error occuring during virtual lab creation.

Has anyone else seen this.

Thank you.
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Re: FIPS error creating virtual lab

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Hi Sam, I have never seen this, and have absolutely no idea what could be throwing this error?! Are you using clean Windows install without any 3rd party tools? Thanks.
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Re: FIPS error creating virtual lab

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Yes it is a clean Windows 2008 install.
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Re: FIPS error creating virtual lab

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Sam, please open a support case on this error as logs investigation is required here. Thanks.
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Re: FIPS error creating virtual lab

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Sam, did you ever get this resolved? I am getting the same error on VEEAM 5 with vShere 5

(i understand this is not supported but this is a new installation of VEEAM and we had already upgraded our vSphere servers)

Thanks

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Colin, I would recommend to wait until the official support of vSphere 5 in your case (please monitor this topic for the news). If the issue still persists, then please address our support team for investigation.
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Re: FIPS error creating virtual lab

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Support told me that Veeam wasn't FIPS compliant and to disable FIPS. Once I did the issue was resolved. Not certain I will be able to continue to run with FIPS disabled but for now it is working for me.
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I can confirm that the vSphere 5 support hotfix resolved this issue

Cheers

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[MERGED] : FIPS Error during SureBackup setup

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Re: Veeam Support - Case # 00200218

I'm adding a Virtual Lab to our vSphere environment. At the end of the setup, I'm receiving a error.

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4/23/2013 9:01:32 AM          Getting infrastructure info
4/23/2013 9:01:44 AM          Mounting vPower NFS datastore
4/23/2013 9:01:44 AM          Creating resource pool 'Veeam Backup Lab'
4/23/2013 9:01:45 AM          Creating VM folder 'Veeam Backup Lab'
4/23/2013 9:01:46 AM          Creating virtual switch 'Veeam Backup Lab'
4/23/2013 9:01:53 AM          Creating port groups
4/23/2013 9:01:54 AM Fail     Copying proxy appliance files Error: This implementation is not part of the Windows Platform FIPS validated cryptographic algorithms.
                              This implementation is not part of the Windows Platform FIPS validated cryptographic algorithms.
4/23/2013 9:02:01 AM          Deleting port groups
4/23/2013 9:02:06 AM          Deleting virtual switch
4/23/2013 9:02:07 AM          Deleting VM folder
4/23/2013 9:02:08 AM          Deleting resource pool
4/23/2013 9:02:08 AM Fail     Failed to create Virtual Lab
                              This implementation is not part of the Windows Platform FIPS validated cryptographic algorithms.
What the issue? I've unchecked the proxy option and still getting the same error.
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Re: FIPS error creating virtual lab

Post by flavor4real » 2 people like this post

here is the solution...

Basically the way that our software is written has not been certified by NIST in where it is considered compliant with FIPS. Because of this when we try and make a call to the host using our cryptographic algorithm it is denied due to the implementation of the FIPs compliance policy in the GPO or Local Security Policy.

Any GPO that enforces FIPS compliance (or other encryption) will need to have Veeam products excluded, or you can disable this temporarily on the server by changing the requirement for a FIPs compliant algorithm by changing the registry key in:

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\fipsalgorithmpolicy from "1"
[enabled] to "0" [disabled].

sorry for the bother. Veeam support responded very quick... ;)
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