Virtualization Archives - Page 3 of 15

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…

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…

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?

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…

Cisco C240 M3 Boot From SAN How To

Posted on December 17, 2015 by Justin Paul | 8 Comments

I thought I’d through a quick guide together for configing Cisco C240 M3 Servers to boot from SAN. Out of the box they can throw you off a little because the Fiber Channel HBA’s don’t show up during POST and…

PernixData’s World Domination Roadmap #VFD5

Posted on June 25, 2015 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments

Satyam, from PernixData, share more of his company’s vision and plan to take over the world (queue world domination music) on day one of Virtualization Field Day 5. The Idea Current tools don’t address all of the problems that IT…

Why build two when you can have OneCloud #VFD5

Posted on June 24, 2015 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments

One of the challenges when pitching disaster recovery to customers is the cost. Many times a DR site build out can cost as much if not more than the production site, a cost that some customers just can’t swing. Luckily for…