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Category: Howtos
Zerto Docs MCP — Part 2: Hybrid Search and a Curated Knowledge Layer
Running a public Zerto Docs MCP server taught me the ceiling of dense-only retrieval. This is the story of finding it, fixing it with BM25 + RRF + reranker, and three other things (KB articles, a curated lessons doc, ingested…
My Zerto Docs MCP Server: Ask Claude (or Copilot, or Cursor) Real Questions
A hosted MCP server that lets Claude, Copilot, Cursor, and other LLM clients answer Zerto questions using the actual help.zerto.com docs — 21,000 pages across 360+ bundles plus the entire KB archive. This post covers what it does, how to…
Troubleshooting Keycloak Authentication
Keycloak became the cornerstone of the Zerto appliance back in 10.0 (wow, it’s been almost 5 years!) and over that time we have tried to simplify getting started, as well as integrating Keycloak with other identity providers like LDAP OIDC…
How To Install and Use Docker on Ubuntu 24.04
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
Monitoring Zerto with Open source tools like Grafana and Prometheus
How to use a Cloudflare API Token for LetsEncrypt Validation on Ubuntu 20.04
How to use LetsEncrypt with CloudFlare API Tokens on Ubuntu 20.04
How to Install VMware Drivers on a non-VMware Machine
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
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
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…