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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…

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…

Azure Automation – How to quickly work with many subscriptions

Posted on May 1, 2019 by Justin Paul | 4 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…

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,…

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 | 2 Comments

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