Creating a Zerto Failover Test Network
Creating a proper Zerto Failover Test Network is crucial for testing your replicated applications with Zerto Virtual Replication. The reason it is so crucial is because in order to test…
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Interop 2015 Award Winners Announced
The 2015 Best of Interop category winners include: Applications: JumpCloud –JumpCloud Directory-as-a-Service Cloud based Directory Services… LDAP, AD Replacement, etc. Here is their info. Cloud/Virtualization: FixStream, Inc. –FixStream Operational Analytics…
Building a Windows 2012 + Veeam 7 Backup Appliance Part 1
No one can deny the advantages of a dedupe appliance, the space and bandwidth savings that they provide are astounding no matter what the brand. While being fairly affordable in…
Things to keep in mind if upgrading to vSphere 5.5
If you are a super early adopter there are a few KB articles that you will want to keep an eye on if you are looking to go to vSphere…
MS SQL AlwaysOn Availability Groups, a better way to cluster
I’ve done posts before about how much I hate Microsoft Clusters, mainly because of their shared disk requirements. While VMware does support a virtualized Microsoft cluster with shared disks, the…
Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager Review
As part of my day job I spend a bunch of time getting in and out of customer networks to monitor and fix things. Managing the connection information for a…
My frustration with Hyper-V, do you really save anything?
The story of a difficult experience with Hyper-V If you follow my Twitter feed you knew this article was coming… After spending about 3 hours on the phone with a…
Automating vCloud and AD User Provisioning with Powershell
As part of my Hands-on Lab project, I wanted to automate the creation of user accounts, both for vCloud Director as well as VMware View/Active Directory. I kicked around the…
The Missing Manual Part 3: Veeam Application Aware Backups
One thing that I don’t think is stressed enough in the Veeam manual is the “Application-Aware” checkbox that is, by default, not checked. Because Veeam (like most other image level…
Veeam 6 Replication: Just how much better then V5?
With version 6 of Veeam Backup and Replication comes an entirely new architecture on how to set up WAN replication of your virtual machines. Their marketing propaganda claims HUGE improvements…