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BREAKING: Broadcom Announces Radical U-Turn on VMware Pricing

Posted on April 1, 2025 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

In a shocking turn of events, Broadcom has announced that it will be reversing all of the pricing changes implemented since its acquisition of VMware in 2023. That’s right, folks, no more sticker shock for your VMware bills! According to…

How to remove stuck K8s namespaces

Posted on January 30, 2023 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Chances are if you work with Kubernetes you have seen a namespace that is stuck in the “terminating” stage. I’m not a Kubernetes expert (yet) but this process works great for me whenever it happens, and doesn’t take long at…

I’m back at Zerto (now HPE) in a new role!

Posted on June 1, 2022 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

It’s hard to believe that it has taken me over 6 months to sit down and write this post. Late last year I decided that Nasuni wasn’t for me, it wasn’t the people (Jeff, Paul, and Will, you guys are…

How to Create and Populate a vSphere Content Library with PowerCLI

Posted on September 25, 2020 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

“Automate the boring stuff”- it’s the title of the most recommended Python book for new programmers, but it’s also how I feel about all things that I have to do more than a couple times. My general rule is if…

How to: Azure Custom DNS, Private Endpoints, and Zerto

Posted on September 1, 2020 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Disclaimer PRIVATE ENDPOINTS REQUIRE GPV2 STORAGE ACCOUNTS. ZERTO IS A HIGH IO REPLICATION ENGINE AND GPV2 STORAGE ACCOUNTS HAVE AN EXPONENTIALLY HIGHER IO COST. (GPV1 = $.0004 per 10,000 READ OR WRITE IO, GPV2 = $.004 per 10,000 READ IO…

How to Enable Zerto LTR with no hardware using HPE Cloud Volumes Backup

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

Zerto Long Term Retention Zerto is known for its super low RPO and RTO objectives and its ability to “re-wind” your VM like a DVR would do to a movie. Those features require production class storage, and sometimes lots of…

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…

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…

Hands on IoT at #MSBuild with the Azure MXChip DevKit

Posted on May 10, 2019 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Last week was a week of firsts for me. It was the trip I had TSA PreCheck; it was the first time I have been to Seattle and it didn’t rain!; and it was the first time I have played…

Runecast Analyzer – take my money already!

Posted on May 9, 2019 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Have you ever upgraded firmware, or installed a driver, only later to find out that it’s not compatible with vSphere or ESXi? Maybe I’m just the only one who doesn’t check the HCL or release notes before doing stuff like…