Hands on IoT at #MSBuild with the Azure MXChip DevKit
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…
Category: Virtualization
Runecast Analyzer – take my money already!
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…
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…
Netplan makes Linux Cross-Hypervisor migration easy!
The network configuration abstraction renderer Netplan is a utility for easily configuring networking on a linux system. You simply create a YAML description of the required network interfaces and what each should be configured to do. From this description Netplan…
Quick Start Guide to CloudBerry Backup Desktop Edition
It has been a few years since my first look at CloudBerry Backup. Back then it was called CloudBerry Online Backup, it’s now called Windows Desktop Cloud Backup. (Server backup is similar but a separate product.) To bring you up…
Importing a GitHub Repo to Azure DevOps Repo
Microsoft recently re-branded Virtual Studio Team Services into Azure DevOps. With it came a face-lift and some great new features. I have been using GitHub for my zPlanner project, and recently thought it would be cool to take advantage of…
In 16 months Windows and SQL 2008 and 2008 R2 will no longer be supported, what’s your plan?
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!
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…
zPlanner – Replication Planning Super Tool
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,…
How to install VMware Tools for Easy Cross-Hypervisor Migrations
Overview This is a companion article to the Hyper-V Integration Services Installation article I did recently. If you are looking to move a non-VMware based machine to VMware with minimal headaches then this is the article for you. These steps…
