As part of my trip to VMware‘s 2015 Partner Exchange I was asked to dive into the Software Defined Datacenter. So I thought I’d do a post as to where…
If you are looking for an alternative to purchasing multiple disk to disk backup appliances you may want to pay close attention to this one. When Veeam released version 8…
It’s always an anxious day for me when I have to take a customer’s DR hardware to their DR site… not because I’m carrying anywhere from $100-400k dollars worth of…
I’ve wrote about Veeam in combination with a few different types of deduplication appliances, both Exagrid and Data Domain. One thing that I always hear… no matter which dedupe appliance…
This week I have been attending HP’s Discover event in Las Vegas and one of the big announcements was the release of a virtual StoreOnce Appliance. If you are not…
Veeam has been advertising some of their Veeam Backup and Replication V7 features for a while now, but I finally got access to the beta and was allowed to bring…
Migrating Ubuntu to Azure Ubuntu 16.04 LTS The goal of this page is to get an Ubuntu 16.04 VM prepared for DR or migration into Azure (or AWS). Ubuntu does…
The network configuration abstraction renderer Netplan is a utility for easily configuring networking on a linux system. You simply create a YAML description of the required network interfaces and what…
A while ago (like 5 years ago) I wrote an article about how I migrated a virtualized SQL cluster from an old SAN to a new SAN. It is still…
Zerto Cloud Service Provider’s are the group of people who leverage Zerto Virtual Replication to provide disaster recovery as a service to customers who do not wish to own a…