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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…

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…

Testing Veeam Tape features with HP StoreOnce VTL

Posted on June 15, 2015 by Justin Paul | 5 Comments

One of the things that I don’t work with much is tape… in any fashion. However while working on a project I was asked how Veeam did with tape out. I tried to think of where I had used tape…

Cloudberry Box First Impressions

Posted on May 27, 2015 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

I thought I had settled on Office 365 + OneDrive on each of my PC’s but lately sync issues with various office documents has been ticking me off. Then this afternoon I ran across an older email from CloudBerry about…

Configuring Data Domain SMT (Secure Multi-Tenancy)

Posted on May 25, 2015 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

One of the new features in DDOS 5.5 is SMT or Secure Multi-Tenancy, basically it just allows you to define what users have access to what MTree’s. Getting it working though is a little bit of a mystery though as there…

Veeam & Data Domain: Advanced Setup and Replication

Posted on May 25, 2015 by Justin Paul | 11 Comments

Recently while working with a customer we had to get a little creative with an installation and I thought I would share the experience. Here is a little background info… Datacenter and Hardware Layout: Customer has 2 datacenter: one on…

Need a new home lab ? VMturbo is giving one away!

Posted on May 13, 2015 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

VMTurbo, one of the advertisers here on my blog, is giving away some gear for a home lab if you check out their Operations Manager 5.2 product release webinar. Operations Manager is the product that will look at your vSphere…

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…

What’s new with EMC Data Domain

Posted on May 4, 2015 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Just a quick note: take all of the stats with a grain of salt until I can get access to the slide deck, as I was taking notes as quickly as possible while they were talking. This week at EMC…

Interop 2015 Award Winners Announced

Posted on April 29, 2015 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

The 2015 Best of Interop category winners include: Applications: JumpCloud –JumpCloud Directory-as-a-Service Cloud based Directory Services… LDAP, AD Replacement, etc. Here is their info. Cloud/Virtualization: FixStream, Inc. –FixStream Operational Analytics and Visualization Platform Single pane of glass analytics platform for…

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

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

Automated Rotation of Keycloak LDAP Federation Password for Zerto

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

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

Harnessing Zerto 10 API Enhancements for Superior Disaster Recovery

Converting REST API Scripts for ZVM Appliance v2

How to Install Docker on a Raspberry Pi 5

How To Install and Use Docker on Ubuntu 24.04

How to visualize Zerto metrics using Grafana