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Interop Day 1

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

My first Interop is underway, and so far I was able to register, bump into some friends, and even attend some workshops. I thought things were starting out pretty smooth until I tried to get into my first workshop “Building…

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…

2015 Top vBlog Voting now open!

Posted on March 2, 2015 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

If you are a regular reader you know that I have been voted one of the top 50 virtualization related blogs the last two years. I would love to make it 3 years! That is where you come in. If…

Veeam Cloud Connect Pricing Estimator

Posted on March 2, 2015 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

So in the process of investigating if I should become a Veeam Cloud Connect partner I have developed some tools that would help estimate both internal costs as well as customer pricing. So I figured I would share the workbooks that…

Hadoop as a Veeam Repository

Posted on February 22, 2015 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments

I was looking at the internet search queries that bring some of the readers to my site the other day when I found one that was rather interesting. It was simply “hadoop as veeam repository”. Now, before I get too far into how…

Power cable considerations on the UCS Mini

Posted on February 20, 2015 by Justin Paul | 9 Comments

This may also apply to the UCS 5108 chassis in general, but as of writing this I haven’t had a chance to check one. So here is the back of the chassis. And I figured common sense would say keep…

Start up of a Cisco UCS Mini

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Justin Paul | 4 Comments

If you are looking for a high level datasheet on the Cisco UCS Mini check out my UCS Mini Anatomy Infographic. This week I was able to play around with a new toy, a Cisco UCS Mini. I took…

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…

Power 101: Maintenance Bypass modules

Posted on February 12, 2015 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

So I haven’t had time to put together a Power 102 article to follow-up from the popular Power 101 article I did, but I thought I would share a little more in terms of what options you have when designing…

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…

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