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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…

VMware vCloud Air On Demand Part 2

Posted on December 5, 2014 by Justin Paul | 9 Comments

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

Posted on December 5, 2014 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

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

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Justin Paul | 10 Comments

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!

Posted on August 20, 2014 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

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

Posted on August 20, 2014 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

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 Zerto Docs MCP Server: Ask Claude (or Copilot, or Cursor) Real Questions

Introducing Webhook Server: Windows-Native Webhooks for Zerto (and Anything Else)

Troubleshooting Keycloak Authentication

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