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Azure DevOps – Never manually create a Docker container again!

Posted on October 9, 2018 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Azure DevOps is a suite of offerings from Microsoft that aims to help companies deliver better software faster. They have a great article on “what is DevOps” here. But why am I using DevOps? You may be asking yourself, why…

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…

Serial Consoles FTW like its 1978!

Posted on August 7, 2018 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

A little history If you’re older than me I need not explain what a serial console is, but if you are younger than me then let me give you a little background information. Back in the day, they needed a way…

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,…

Remote Desktop Error: CredSSP encryption oracle remediation

Posted on June 6, 2018 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments

Lately, I’ve been having trouble using Remote Desktop to get into machines in my lab. The error is always the same: What is CredSSP and why it is an issue? (From the Microsoft KB Article) Credential Security Support Provider protocol…

Zerto script: Quiesced MongoDB Journal Checkpoints!

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

Don’t let MongoDB get amnesia, quiesce it! If you are a MongoDB user that also has Zerto Virtual Replication you can now get quiesced Zerto journal checkpoints with a script I published this week over on the Zerto Tech Alliances…

Moving a SQL Cluster – The really easy way

Posted on May 3, 2017 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

A while ago (like 5 years ago) I wrote an article about how I migrated a virtualized SQL cluster from an old SAN to a new SAN. It is still surprisingly popular, so I thought I would share another way…

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…