Justin's IT Blog

Geek stuff worth grabbing on #PrimeDay

Posted on July 6, 2019 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Or grab them any other day… I didn’t wait till PrimeDay. It’s been a while since I blogged about my addiction to geek toys from Amazon, so here is an update on some of the cool stuff I’ve picked up…

The Ultimate Nerd #RaspberryPi Cluster Case

Posted on July 5, 2019 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

Warning: This may persuade you to buy a 3D Printer… just saying you’ve been warned LOL. Let me start by saying all of the STL files to make this bad boy are on Thingiverse. parts that are not 3D printed…

87 Ways the new Unofficial Zerto PowerShell Module will help you!

Posted on June 17, 2019 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

There are lots of ways to interact with Zerto these days, but one of the easiest ways was just released! Wes Carrol has been working on a pretty awesome project that was recently migrated to the new, centralized, Zerto GitHub…

Hands on IoT at #MSBuild with the Azure MXChip DevKit

Posted on May 10, 2019 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Last week was a week of firsts for me. It was the trip I had TSA PreCheck; it was the first time I have been to Seattle and it didn’t rain!; and it was the first time I have played…

Runecast Analyzer – take my money already!

Posted on May 9, 2019 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Have you ever upgraded firmware, or installed a driver, only later to find out that it’s not compatible with vSphere or ESXi? Maybe I’m just the only one who doesn’t check the HCL or release notes before doing stuff like…

Azure Automation – How to quickly work with many subscriptions

Posted on May 1, 2019 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Lately, I have been writing various scripts to automate Azure tasks for our Zerto Training team. One of the unique things about deploying training labs at scale is that we use MANY Azure subscriptions in order to properly isolate and…

ZertoCon 2019 Hackathon Update

Posted on April 17, 2019 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

We are just over one month away from ZertoCon 2019. Which means we are also just over one month from the hackathon, so it’s time for an update! I just started some threads on the Hackathon forum (on myZerto). The…

Why the HPE C3000 BladeSystem is the best lab setup ever

Posted on April 4, 2019 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

I can’t remember if I bought my C3000 chassis in 2016 or 2015, but it’s still running great (knock on wood) and has been the best “home lab” investment I’ve made. Define Home Lab Saying that this is my home…

How to build a Raspberry Pi Serial Console Server with ser2net

Posted on January 29, 2019 by Justin Paul | 4 Comments

If you’ve ever built a Cisco CCNA lab or some other hardware lab that has serial console ports, there is a good chance you sat within a few feet of the gear with a serial cable to your computer while…