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Virtualization Field Day 5… Next week!

Posted on June 20, 2015 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

If you haven’t already heard, next week will be Virtualization Field Day 5, in Boston. There is a jam packed line up of presenters and a pretty awesome cast of delegates ready to listen and question. This time around there…

Going a Little Lab Crazy

Posted on May 4, 2015 by Justin Paul | 14 Comments

Normally during this time of year I’m preparing to shutdown my home lab for the summer time, mainly because its hot enough in the garage and because with kids I really just don’t have time to mess with it. This…

Repurposing PC’s as VMware View Clients

Posted on April 7, 2015 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

If you are one of the people who keeps Microsoft Software Assurance on your licensing you are going to love this option if you are thinking about VDI. Microsoft released a stripped down version of Windows 7 called ThinPC and the…

State of the VMware SDDC

Posted on February 17, 2015 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

As part of my trip to VMware‘s 2015 Partner Exchange I was asked to dive into the Software Defined Datacenter. So I thought I’d do a post as to where we are currently at with SDDC as a whole and…

VNXe3200 gets a code update (3.1.1.4823793)

Posted on February 9, 2015 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

Today EMC released a new code update for the VNXe3200, and with it comes a whole bunch of awesomeness. It was posted up today and is rev. 3.1.1.4823793 Here is the short version of what is new: Increased FAST Cache size…

VMware vCloud Air On Demand Part 2

Posted on December 5, 2014 by Justin Paul | 9 Comments

Part 2 will be about how to get the VM that we created in Part 1 online, for both outbound access to the internet as well as inbound access to ssh and http services that the VM is providing. (Also…

VMware vCloud Air On Demand Part 1

Posted on December 5, 2014 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

Last week I was given access to the new vCloud Air OnDemand service and $1000 dollars in service credits to put it through its paces and then blog about it so that you can decide if it might be for…

Introducing the Cisco UCS Mini

Posted on July 28, 2014 by Justin Paul | 16 Comments

If you have been considering Cisco UCS blades for your upcoming server refresh, but know that you won’t ever need more than a single chassis of blades… then go grab some coffee or a red bull and read on! The…

Veeam V7 Patch 4 – adds support for VSAN and SQL 2014

Posted on July 1, 2014 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Just a heads up that Patch 4 for Veeam V7 was released the other day. Looks like it includes a bunch of patches and even a few new features too. New features include: VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) support: Added full…

Zerto 3.5 with Offsite Backup Feature goes GA

Posted on June 3, 2014 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

It’s been pretty well-known that Zerto had plans to implement an Offsite backup feature into their Replication/DR product. And well the day has come to announce that it, along with Zerto 3.5 is now ready for you to install. So…