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Zerto, could it be the answer to your DR prayers?

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

From the Zerto site: Zerto provides enterprise-class business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) solutions for virtualized infrastructure and cloud. Zerto won Best of Show at VMworld 2011, as well as 2011 Product of the Year Gold Award because our software,…

Lunch and Lab Spring Tour

Posted on February 9, 2013 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments

Coming up in March I will be going on the road to show off my Hands on Lab project… possibly in a city near you! Check out the invite below, dates include: Indianapolis – March4th Louisville – March 5th Nashville…

Cloudberry Online Backup Review

Posted on February 8, 2013 by Justin Paul | 4 Comments

If you are looking to push your small business or even just your personal laptop backups to the cloud, Cloudberry‘s Online Backup product might just be what you are looking for! Cloudberry offers several backup products for almost any situation,…

Network and Storage for VDI: Exactly the same, entirely different

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments

Once upon a time as an admin you weren’t so sure about virtualization. It was yet another alien technology that management or a well-intentioned zealot in your IT organization was pushing on you, bringing a new set of challenges and…

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…

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AI-Powered Grain Market Tracking for Farmers

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