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Have you heard about Zerto JFLR yet?

Have you heard about Zerto JFLR yet?

Posted on March 19, 2016 by Justin Paul | 3 Comments

JFLR – or Journal based File Level Recovery is a technology inside of Zerto Virtual Replication 4.5 that allows you to recover the individual files of a protected VM from any checkpoint that is in the journal. What is a journal?…

Creating a Zerto Failover Test Network

Creating a Zerto Failover Test Network

Posted on February 11, 2016 by Justin Paul | 5 Comments

Creating a proper Zerto Failover Test Network is crucial for testing your replicated applications with Zerto Virtual Replication. The reason it is so crucial is because in order to test things without affecting production, or making Active Directory really grumpy,…

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…

Using pfSense for multitenancy in a virtual environment

Using pfSense for multitenancy in a virtual environment

Posted on February 4, 2016 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Back in the day if you wanted your servers to live a happy stress free life you sent them to a colo, a boarding school for servers in a sense. In return they got their own secure floor space, perfect…

Answering Josh’s EMC VNXe Questions

Posted on December 17, 2015 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

Josh left a great comment for me on the new VNXe Host and LUN setup post, I felt the questions, and their answers, were important enough for a post of their own. Here they are: [stextbox id=”black” caption=”Josh’s Comment”] Awesome…

EMC VNXe1600 – Configuring Hosts and LUNs

EMC VNXe1600 – Configuring Hosts and LUNs

Posted on December 17, 2015 by Justin Paul | 6 Comments

The VNXe1600 is the block only version of the VNXe3200. For SMB sized VMware environments this is the perfect storage array as it allows the customer to add FAST Cache, it allows them to mix and match drive and raid…

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…

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…

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…

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…