How to visualize Zerto metrics using Grafana
Monitoring Zerto with Open source tools like Grafana and Prometheus
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Configuring ZVM Appliance Multi-Factor Authentication
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Converting REST API Scripts for ZVM Appliance
This post will help you when converting REST API scripts for Windows ZVM for use with ZVM appliances. Spoiler alert – every script that uses the Windows ZVM REST API will need (some) modifications before it will work with the ZVM Appliance. What has changed? The ZVM Appliance, which is replacing the Windows-based ZVM, is… -
Introducing the Linux Zerto Virtual Manager
With the release of Zerto 9.5u1 comes something pretty exciting for Zerto customers. It’s been something that customers have been asking for – for a long time. Zerto Virtual Manager Linux Appliance or Linux ZVM for short. It’s been a huge project which started before I rejoined Zerto, but the first version is finally here!… -
I’m back at Zerto (now HPE) in a new role!
It’s hard to believe that it has taken me over 6 months to sit down and write this post. Late last year I decided that Nasuni wasn’t for me, it wasn’t the people (Jeff, Paul, and Will, you guys are the best), it just wasn’t the perfect role for me; at the same time, I… -
MayaData launches Kubera Propel and Kubera Chaos
Palo Alto, CA – November 16th MayaData, a leading developer of open-source software for using Kubernetes as a data layer, announces the commercial availability of Kubera Propel and Kubera Chaos. Kubera Propel is based on the most popular open-source Container Attached Storage project, OpenEBS, which MayaData started and continues to lead. Kubera Chaos is based… -
Harbor: How to Deploy a Private Container Registry
What a container registry does Even a single docker host machine has to get its images from somewhere. That somewhere is a container registry. A container registry is typically a public server that allows multiple people to share these images. Container images are sort of like a zip file with everything a particular application (or… -
How to use a Cloudflare API Token for LetsEncrypt Validation on Ubuntu 20.04
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How to: Azure Custom DNS, Private Endpoints, and Zerto
Disclaimer PRIVATE ENDPOINTS REQUIRE GPV2 STORAGE ACCOUNTS. ZERTO IS A HIGH IO REPLICATION ENGINE AND GPV2 STORAGE ACCOUNTS HAVE AN EXPONENTIALLY HIGHER IO COST. (GPV1 = $.0004 per 10,000 READ OR WRITE IO, GPV2 = $.004 per 10,000 READ IO and $.05 per 10,000 WRITE IO). REPLICATING TO A GPV2 STORAGE ACCOUNT WITH ZERTO WILL… -
The Ultimate Nerd Raspberry Pi Cluster case version 2.0!
How do you make the Ultimate Nerd Raspberry Pi cluster case better!?! I wrote this article sometime in late 2019 or early 2020… apparently I forgot to click publish. Woops! So basically this post is about how I made my Pi cluster even better! One way is to make it twice as big! If you…
Veeam Cloud Connect How To
If you are looking for an alternative to purchasing multiple disk to disk backup appliances you may want to pay close attention to this one. When Veeam released version 8 they stashed away a feature called Cloud Connect. Essentially Cloud…
VMware vCloud Air On Demand Part 2
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
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…
Direct Attach Fiber Channel with the EMC VNXe3200
The demo box that I have from EMC does not have the fiber channel mez card in it, but last week I did get a chance to configure a VNXe3200 with direct attached fiber channel hosts for the first time…
VMTurbo, Now Sponoring JPaul.me!
The folks over at VMTurbo have decided to help out and sponsor my blog. If you haven’t seen what they have been up to I would definitely encourage you to check them out. Here is an overview of what they…
VMware Big Data Extensions and Hadoop for Infrastructure Benchmarking
One of the things I’ve always looked for was a way to load test and benchmark some of the things I build. In the past I have used tools that will do IOps tests on storage arrays but for testing…
My roadmap for the VNXe series
Disclaimer: I don’t work for EMC and I don’t have any inside information that any other customer or partner wouldn’t have. I also have no more influence over the product direction than any customer or partner would. The thoughts in…
VNXe3200 Managing Storage and Cache
The VNXe3200 is almost identical to both the previous VNXe’s as well as the VNX series of SAN’s in that it uses Unisphere for management. However, the version of Unisphere running on the 3200 is a very different once you…
VNXe 3200 Controller Failover Behavior
Two years ago I posted an article describing how the VNXe3100 (and 3300 and 3150) had a major drawback in the way that it handled IO during a controller reboot or failure. If you didn’t get a chance to experience…
Hello I’m Justin, and I was an iPhone user
Update: After Verizon finally started allowing 4G calling (Which allows the data to stay on too). I switched back to an iPhone. So after 2 years, I am officially back to an Android phone. Why? Well it really all comes…