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Have you heard about Zerto JFLR yet?

Posted on March 19, 2016 by Justin Paul | 3 Comments

JFLR – or Journal based File Level Recovery is a technology inside of Zerto Virtual Replication 4.5 that allows you to recover the individual files of a protected VM from any checkpoint that is in the journal. What is a journal?…

Creating a Zerto Failover Test Network

Posted on February 11, 2016 by Justin Paul | 5 Comments

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 things without affecting production, or making Active Directory really grumpy,…

Easy Application Failover with Zerto and SDN

Posted on February 10, 2016 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

One of the most common questions that I get asked when talking about application failover is… “how does the IP change work”, or “how do I update DNS”, or “what about my firewall rules”. They are all valid questions, but…

Zerto – Challenge Accepted!

Posted on August 11, 2015 by Justin Paul | 15 Comments

Some call it the dark side, others call it the best decision they ever made. For now I’ll just say “Hi, I’m Justin and I’m with Zerto.” I was in the VAR community for over 6 years, I’ve designed or…

Join me, Zerto, and Lumenate for show and tell (and food)!

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Later this month I will be presenting at two events, the first is March 18th from 3-6pm in Cincinnati Ohio. We will all meet at the Firehouse Grill for a little vendor kool-aid party and some food and drinks! Of…

How to Seed VMDK’s for Zerto Replication

Posted on February 28, 2014 by Justin Paul | 7 Comments

Update: I have posted a newer article describing how to do preseeding in Zerto Virtual Replication 4.5. Check it out here http://www.jpaul.me/2016/05/zerto-preseeding-howto-4-5u1/ In January I talked about how to use SilverPeak WAN acceleration to boost Zerto Replication so that you could…

Boosting DR Replication with SilverPeak

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Justin Paul | 3 Comments

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 customer equipment in my SUV (that’s the insurance guy’s problem)……

Zerto: The Missing Manual

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Justin Paul | 8 Comments

If you are a follower of my blog you might remember the Veeam Missing Manuals I put together a long time ago, they were pretty popular and seemed to help a bunch of people. With that said I thought, why…

Zerto: First week experience

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Justin Paul | 12 Comments

Update Oct 2016 – Please note that the version of Zerto used for screenshots in this article is version 3.x. While similar, the user interface in current Zerto releases if very different looking and uses an all HTML5 interface. I…

Zerto, could it be the answer to your DR prayers?

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

From the Zerto site: Zerto provides enterprise-class business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) solutions for virtualized infrastructure and cloud. Zerto won Best of Show at VMworld 2011, as well as 2011 Product of the Year Gold Award because our software,…