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Thursday, 19 April 2018

How to install VMware Tools for Easy Cross-Hypervisor Migrations

How to install VMware Tools for Easy Cross-Hypervisor Migrations

Posted on January 19, 2018 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

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…

How to install Hyper-V Integration Services for Easy Cross-Hypervisor Migrations

Posted on December 11, 2017 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Overview I.T. organizations are constantly looking for efficiencies and cost savings in their organization. Migrating VMware VMs to Microsoft Hyper-V is one way that some organizations are looking to save money (by reducing VMware license fees). Other organizations may be…

Azure Quotas – How to request more Cloud

Azure Quotas – How to request more Cloud

Posted on November 1, 2017 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Everyone loves cloud! Right? But what if you run out? If you aren’t sure where you are on the “About to run out scale”, check out my article on how to check usage and limits here. But if you need…

Checking Azure Resource Quota Limits with PowerShell

Checking Azure Resource Quota Limits with PowerShell

Posted on October 25, 2017 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

The Cloud has Limits?!?! When migrating workloads into Azure one of the first things that people run into is the limit on the amount of resources they can initially consume. We are all told that “the cloud” is limitless, but…

Zerto Cloud Appliance Template for AWS Now Available

Zerto Cloud Appliance Template for AWS Now Available

Posted on October 4, 2017 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments

Deploy Zerto Faster on AWS! This week Zerto published AWS Community AMIs (Amazon Machine Image) for all regions of AWS. This means that you can now deploy a Zerto Virtual Replication Cloud Appliance from a template with Zerto 5.5 Update…

299 Top vBlogs to follow

299 Top vBlogs to follow

Posted on January 2, 2017 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

299 virtualization blogs for your RSS reader Here is my OPML export of all the top vBlogs according to Eric Siebert’s http://thevpad.com/ site. This list includes not only the “top 100” but also all those who are listed in the “more blogs”…

10 great VMware books to check out while it’s cold outside!

Posted on January 2, 2017 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

If you’re like me, you try to avoid leaving the house as much as possible when it’s freezing outside. Usually, around mid-January I run out of indoor projects to work on (I just got done with my latest one.. a…

Changing Guest VM DNS Server IPs with Zerto

Changing Guest VM DNS Server IPs with Zerto

Posted on November 1, 2016 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Overview Everyone knows that Zerto can change the IP address of a virtual machine when it is failed over. But did you know that it can also change the DNS servers that the VM uses as well? Normally I recommend…

VMware Swap and OS Swap: Whats the difference?

VMware Swap and OS Swap: Whats the difference?

Posted on August 27, 2016 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments

After posting my two Zerto Swap Disk articles for Linux and Windows I received a comment asking why wouldn’t I just reserve all the VM’s RAM which would eliminate the VMware swap file and replication of swap data. This seems to…

Easy Application Failover with Zerto and SDN

Posted on February 10, 2016 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

One of the most common questions that I get asked when talking about application failover is… “how does the IP change work”, or “how do I update DNS”, or “what about my firewall rules”. They are all valid questions, but…