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How To Install and Use Docker on Ubuntu 24.04

Posted on July 16, 2024 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

In this How to install and use docker on Ubuntu 24.04 guide I will walk you through the process I use to get a fresh Ubuntu machine ready for docker workloads. These are my notes, and should be considered a…

How to visualize Zerto metrics using Grafana

Posted on April 18, 2023 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Monitoring Zerto with Open source tools like Grafana and Prometheus

How to use a Cloudflare API Token for LetsEncrypt Validation on Ubuntu 20.04

Posted on September 10, 2020 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments

How to use LetsEncrypt with CloudFlare API Tokens on Ubuntu 20.04

How to Install VMware Drivers on a non-VMware Machine

Posted on June 17, 2020 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

This method of installing VMware Drivers is for those who don’t like the idea of cracking the VMware Tools installer and removing the parts that check for VMware based VMs. I guess you could say that this way is more…

Azure Automation – How to quickly work with many subscriptions

Posted on May 1, 2019 by Justin Paul | 4 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…

Configuring Zerto with a Domain Signed SSL Certificate

Posted on October 16, 2017 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

How annoying it is… How many servers, or hardware management interfaces, or other devices on your network make you do those extra clicks to get to them? You know, the ones where you agree that you have intelligence and you…

DIY Laptop Stand

Posted on December 28, 2016 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

If you follow my personal facebook page then you might have seen pictures of this DIY laptop stand before. However, this post will have a shopping list, a cut list, and some instructions on how to make one of these…

What I’ve learned about IT purchasing

Posted on July 20, 2015 by Justin Paul | 10 Comments

Disclaimer: What I share with you in this article is not a secret, if you do your research you can find all of this information with the help of Google. I’ve worked in the VAR (Value Added Reseller) business for over…

Repurposing PC’s as VMware View Clients

Posted on April 7, 2015 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

If you are one of the people who keeps Microsoft Software Assurance on your licensing you are going to love this option if you are thinking about VDI. Microsoft released a stripped down version of Windows 7 called ThinPC and the…

MS SQL AlwaysOn Availability Groups, a better way to cluster

Posted on September 12, 2013 by Justin Paul | 3 Comments

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 bottom line is that its just a pain in the…