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Everything you need to know about Zerto’s VAIO Announcement

Posted on September 3, 2019 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

Zerto previews it VAIO filter at VMWorld 2019 Zerto’s Rob Strechay and VMware’s Paul Turner presented to a packed crowd, including many current Zerto customers, all eager to learn about the new IO filtering option. Aside from the presentation, Zerto…

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

Posted on June 17, 2019 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

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…

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…

Calling all Hackers, ZertoCon 2019 Wants You!

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

You’ve probably heard that ZertoCon 2019 is going to be in Nashville Tennessee, Monday May 20 – Wednesday May 22. If you havent already registered you can do that here. In years past we have always done a session related…

Netplan makes Linux Cross-Hypervisor migration easy!

Posted on December 20, 2018 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

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 each should be configured to do. From this description Netplan…

In 16 months Windows and SQL 2008 and 2008 R2 will no longer be supported, what’s your plan?

Posted on August 12, 2018 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Let’s not kid each other, you or someone you know is still running Windows Server 2008, 2008 R2, or SQL 2008, 2008 R2 in production. I’m not trying to say you (or them) are a bad I.T. person because of…

The Secret Sauce Behind zPlanner

Posted on July 16, 2018 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

zPlanner is a replication planning tool that analyzes VMware virtual machine storage patterns and helps plan for replication to the public cloud (or other disaster recovery locations). If you want to learn more about what zPlanner is, then check out the first…

zPlanner – Replication Planning Super Tool

Posted on July 14, 2018 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments

What is zPlanner? Project goals As more and more companies make the decision to explore public cloud it has become very important to be able to gather statistical data from those workloads and analyze it for things like change rate,…

Zerto Alert – The default Microsoft SAN Policy may …

Posted on July 13, 2018 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Have you seen this SAN Policy alert? If you use Zerto to replicate Microsoft Virtual machines that have multiple hard drives you have probably seen this warning in the GUI. Typically It occurs when you are replicating data to Azure…