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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…

zPlanner – Replication Planning Super Tool

Posted on July 14, 2018 by Justin Paul | 0 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,…

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

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

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

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

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…