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EMC ELECT 2013 Award

Posted on January 15, 2013 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments

A couple of months ago I started reading things about a new award that EMC would be doing much like the VMware vExpert award that VMware does. After some more reading I decided that I would nominate myself and see…

Building a Dashboard for the Hands on Lab Project

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Justin Paul | 3 Comments

After finishing up my HOL Provisioning script I moved on to the second thing on my list of Todo’s since the first HOL event in Kansas City… Build a dashboard. I found that about 10 minutes into the lab things…

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…

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

How to Install Docker on a Raspberry Pi 5

How To Install and Use Docker on Ubuntu 24.04