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Checking Azure Resource Quota Limits with PowerShell

Posted on October 25, 2017 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

The Cloud has Limits?!?! When migrating workloads into Azure one of the first things that people run into is the limit on the amount of resources they can initially consume. We are all told that “the cloud” is limitless, but…

FuelRod – My R&D recommendations

Posted on October 20, 2017 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

The Backstory One of the interesting travel accessories that I have acquired is a FuelRod. If you don’t know what a FuelRod is let me explain. Basically, it is a USB battery pack much like the free ones we get…

Configuring Zerto with a Domain Signed SSL Certificate

Posted on October 16, 2017 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

How annoying it is… How many servers, or hardware management interfaces, or other devices on your network make you do those extra clicks to get to them? You know, the ones where you agree that you have intelligence and you…

Zerto Cloud Appliance Template for AWS Now Available

Posted on October 4, 2017 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments

Deploy Zerto Faster on AWS! This week Zerto published AWS Community AMIs (Amazon Machine Image) for all regions of AWS. This means that you can now deploy a Zerto Virtual Replication Cloud Appliance from a template with Zerto 5.5 Update…

The date is set, and replication has started

Posted on September 15, 2017 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

It’s almost time to shut down the Home Lab! I posted the other week that I would no longer have a home lab and this week I officially set the date for the hardware swap. It will be Tuesday, September…

Ubiquiti Unifi Virtual Appliance 2.0

Posted on September 3, 2017 by Justin Paul | 11 Comments

My Ubiquiti Unifi Virtual Appliance template The Ubiquiti Unifi Virtual Appliance that I posted a while back in this post was starting to get more traffic. However, there were some complications with its deployment because I make the VM a…

No more home lab for me!

Posted on September 1, 2017 by Justin Paul | 3 Comments

Yes, you read that right! If you have been over to my Home Lab page you probably know I have a pretty big pile of gear in my garage. But no more! In fact, I plan to get rid of…

My Insider’s Take On Zerto Virtual Replication 5.5

Posted on August 23, 2017 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Zerto Virtual Replication 5.5 is Released! Yesterday Zerto publicly released Zerto Virtual Replication 5.5 (ZVR) to the public. There is already a slew of great blog posts about the new features: Vladan’s Blog – https://www.vladan.fr/zerto-virtual-replication-5-5-released/ Eric’s vSphere-Land Blog – http://vsphere-land.com/news/just-in-time-for-vmworld-zerto-releases-zerto-virtual-replication-5-5.html…

Time to vote for your favorite vBlog again!

Posted on June 1, 2017 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

I want your vote The digital campaign signs are going to be popping up all over the virtualization blogosphere again. Why? Because Eric Siebert of vSphere-Land.com has opened up the 2017 Top vBlog voting! So if you haven’t already voted,…

ZertoCON 2017 Mega Post

Posted on May 30, 2017 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

The 3rd-floor View Last week was the second annual ZertoCON in Boston. It was an amazing 3-days which included everything from a partner day, instructor led deep dive training, hands-on labs, sessions, keynotes, a party, and lots of 1:1 and…