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Automating vCloud and AD User Provisioning with Powershell

Posted on November 23, 2012 by Justin Paul | 6 Comments

As part of my Hands-on Lab project, I wanted to automate the creation of user accounts, both for vCloud Director as well as VMware View/Active Directory. I kicked around the idea of using VMware Orchestrator but found that I just…

EMC ELECT Program

Posted on November 17, 2012 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

This morning I was reading a post by Tommy over at vTexan.com about how EMC has started a similar program to the VMware vExpert program. If you are an EMC storage geek then you will probably want to check out…

Goodbye Apache, Hello Nginx

Posted on November 10, 2012 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

Yesterday I noticed that a few times throughout the day my site was unreachable, and when I logged in to the server I noticed that there were hundreds of apache threads running as well as abnormally high memory and cpu…

Anatomy of an EMC VNX Array

Posted on November 6, 2012 by Justin Paul | 115 Comments

UPDATE: I am starting to update this page with VNX2 (Code Name Rockies) Information. I have only uploaded the components sheet so far, but when I get time to do the others I will update them as well. I find…

Accelerating Storage Traffic with AutoCache from Proximal Data

Posted on November 6, 2012 by Justin Paul | 10 Comments

Now that it is getting cooler here in the buckeye state my lab gear has been hard at work keeping my office nice and toasty warm. While spewing out BTU’s it has also managed to help me test some new…

Unable to delete VNXe Volume or inactive checkpoints/snapshots

Posted on November 4, 2012 by Justin Paul | 10 Comments

NOTE: I recommend getting EMC support on the phone before trying any of the commands below, I take no responsibility if you lose data because you use them without fully knowing what they do. As always… if your job is…

Win some lab gear from Unitrends!

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments

This contest has perfect timing, I am working on my review of several backup products and Unitrends was already on the list to review. If however you are a geek like me and also need some lab gear head over…

Appassure 5 Backup: Installation and Configuration Review

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Justin Paul | 24 Comments

As promised this is the first of a couple articles on the backup products I have been watching. I plan to go through them in alphabetical order, starting with Appassure and ending with Veeam. In the middle I plan to…

Adding Shelves to a VNXe SAN

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Justin Paul | 11 Comments

The other day I was asked to help install a new DAE on a VNXe3100 for a customer. While it is a very simple process I thought I would share what I look for to make sure that things…

A New Look

Posted on October 29, 2012 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

After 2 years with the Green Park 2 by Cordobo theme, I decided that it was time for something new. I hate picking things like this though, it probably took me half the day just to find something I was…

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