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Tuesday, 29 April 2025

  • DIY Precision Agriculture: Fertilizer Monitor with Raspberry Pi Pico Part 2

    DIY Precision Agriculture: Fertilizer Monitor with Raspberry Pi Pico Part 2

    Posted on April 28, 2025 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
    I have good news and great news: The good news is that all my corn is in the ground! The great news is that my DIY fertilizer monitor preformed amazingly. If you havent read part 1 check it out here, but the TLDR recap is: consistency is the name of the game. I need to…
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  • DIY Precision Agriculture: Fertilizer Monitor with Raspberry Pi Pico Part 1

    DIY Precision Agriculture: Fertilizer Monitor with Raspberry Pi Pico Part 1

    Posted on March 16, 2025 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment
    Agriculture has been part of my life forever. I grew up on a farm and worked for my grandpa and dad until I was old enough to go off to university. Computers were a huge interest as well and sometimes those two priorities conflicted when I was growing up. I cannot even count the times…
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  • Automated Rotation of Keycloak LDAP Federation Password for Zerto

    Automated Rotation of Keycloak LDAP Federation Password for Zerto

    Posted on October 9, 2024 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
    Maintaining secure integrations between Active Directory (AD) and identity management platforms like Keycloak is a crucial task in any modern IT environment. Password management for service accounts, especially those used in sensitive environments such as LDAP integrations, can become tedious when performed manually. However, automating the process reduces errors, enhances security, and saves time. In…
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  • A Water Heater Breakdown Was the Best Thing for My Utility Bills!

    A Water Heater Breakdown Was the Best Thing for My Utility Bills!

    Posted on September 12, 2024 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
    The back story… Recently I replaced an electric water heater with a manufactured date from 1992. You might be asking yourself how the hell a water heater survived that long to begin with. Long story short, my wife and I purchased a farm which belonged to my great-grandparents in 2021. They had passed about 15…
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  • DIY Stratum 1 NTP Server: Secure Time Sync with Raspberry Pi Under $200

    DIY Stratum 1 NTP Server: Secure Time Sync with Raspberry Pi Under $200

    Posted on August 30, 2024 by Justin Paul | 9 Comments
    In today’s digital world, precise timekeeping is more important than ever. From securing financial transactions to managing networks, accurate time synchronization ensures that all devices are on the same page. This is where the Network Time Protocol (NTP) comes into play. NTP is a protocol designed to synchronize the clocks of computers over a network,…
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  • Harnessing Zerto 10 API Enhancements for Superior Disaster Recovery

    Harnessing Zerto 10 API Enhancements for Superior Disaster Recovery

    Posted on August 12, 2024 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
    Zerto 10 marks the third iteration of a Linux based ZVM, and v10 is already in its 5th major update. While 9.5 and 9.7 were aimed at greenfield environments, Zerto 10 is the path forward for all customers and with the introduction of update 5, has introduced many new APIs. Summary of Core APIs When…
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  • Converting REST API Scripts for ZVM Appliance v2

    Converting REST API Scripts for ZVM Appliance v2

    Posted on August 7, 2024 by Justin Paul | 3 Comments
    A little over a year ago I posted about converting your scripts from Zerto’s ZVM 9.x API to the new ZVM 10.x API. The process I described here still works, but there is an easier way if you are willing to use a username and password, instead of a key and secret. For most purposes,…
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  • How to Install Docker on a Raspberry Pi 5

    How to Install Docker on a Raspberry Pi 5

    Posted on July 27, 2024 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments
    In this How to install and use Docker on Raspberry Pi 5 guide I will walk you through the process I use to get a fresh Raspberry Pi OS image ready for docker workloads. These are my notes and should be considered a living document that may get updated as needed throughout the lifecycle of…
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  • How To Install and Use Docker on Ubuntu 24.04

    How To Install and Use Docker on Ubuntu 24.04

    Posted on July 16, 2024 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
    In this How to install and use docker on Ubuntu 24.04 guide I will walk you through the process I use to get a fresh Ubuntu machine ready for docker workloads. These are my notes, and should be considered a living document that may get updated as needed throughout the lifecycle of Ubuntu 24.04. Prerequisites…
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  • How to visualize Zerto metrics using Grafana

    How to visualize Zerto metrics using Grafana

    Posted on April 18, 2023 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
    Monitoring Zerto with Open source tools like Grafana and Prometheus
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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…
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Suplus IT stuff in need of a new home

Suplus IT stuff in need of a new home

Posted on November 13, 2015 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
It seems like IT people always have a closet full of stuff that is out of service that just sits around. My garage is that closet for me, and I would like to reclaim some lab rack space as well…
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Data Protection Diversification is a MUST!

Posted on November 12, 2015 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
Chances are you have architected your virtual environment to have no single points of failure. (If you haven’t you may want to brush up your resume sooner or later…) Generally we make sure to protect things at various levels in…
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Their rules or they won’t play!

Posted on September 21, 2015 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments
Have you ever known someone who would only play a game by their rules? And if it came down to choosing between their rules or not playing, then they just wouldn’t play? I though that was only kid stuff but…
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Are you using HP StoreOnce VSA? I am!

Are you using HP StoreOnce VSA? I am!

Posted on September 4, 2015 by Justin Paul | 14 Comments
One of the guys I’ve known for a long time is an engineer / IT guy / jack of all trades for a fairly small SMB (in terms of IT needs). They only have a handful of VM’s and a…
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EMC releases VNXe1600 – Block Only VNXe3200

EMC releases VNXe1600 – Block Only VNXe3200

Posted on August 16, 2015 by Justin Paul | 20 Comments
It looks like there is a new member of the VNXe family, a block only version of the VNXe3200. There are also some hardware differences too: VNXe3200 has 4 copper RJ-45 ports (per SP) that can be 10Gb iSCSI or…
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Zerto – Challenge Accepted!

Zerto – Challenge Accepted!

Posted on August 11, 2015 by Justin Paul | 15 Comments
Some call it the dark side, others call it the best decision they ever made. For now I’ll just say “Hi, I’m Justin and I’m with Zerto.” I was in the VAR community for over 6 years, I’ve designed or…
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Got DR Questions? Zerto and the American Red Cross answer them!

Got DR Questions? Zerto and the American Red Cross answer them!

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
Zerto will be hosting a Tweetchat, with the American Red Cross.  The tweet chat will be a live Q&A session, where anyone can get their most pressing questions answered around how to prepare for disaster. They would be happy if you…
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What I’ve learned about IT purchasing

What I’ve learned about IT purchasing

Posted on July 20, 2015 by Justin Paul | 10 Comments
Disclaimer: What I share with you in this article is not a secret, if you do your research you can find all of this information with the help of Google.  I’ve worked in the VAR (Value Added Reseller) business for over…
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PernixData’s World Domination Roadmap #VFD5

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…
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