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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…

Azure Automation – How to quickly work with many subscriptions

Posted on May 1, 2019 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

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!

Posted on December 20, 2018 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

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

Posted on October 12, 2018 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

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

Posted on October 2, 2018 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

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?

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 | 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,…