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VMware VCP5-IAAS Study Matrix (vCloud Certification)

Posted on August 3, 2012 by Justin Paul | 4 Comments

VMware recently released the VCP-VCD510 (or VCP-IAAS) Certification and its study blueprint. I always like to know which material is covered more in-depth than others so I put together a matrix of all of the objectives and the documents they…

Veeam and Data Domain: A Case Study

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Justin Paul | 29 Comments

This is the story of a customer who recently implemented Veeam and Data Domain; all names have been changed to protect the innocent, etc etc 🙂 Background “BOB’S BAIT AND TACKLE” was running VMware 4.1 on a mostly HP environment,…

Win a Dream Lab from Veeam

Posted on July 31, 2012 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

If you need some new lab gear you will want to stop by booth 1709 at VMworld this year. Veeam is giving away pretty sweet home lab setup this year, and it looks like all you need to do is…

VNXe Controller failover compared to other SAN devices

Posted on July 25, 2012 by Justin Paul | 19 Comments

Update: With the release of the VNXe3200 all of the issues discussed in this post have been resolved. For a review of the VNXe3200 controller failover process check out my new article: http://www.jpaul.me/2014/08/vnxe-3200-controller-failover-behavior/ Let me start by saying that the purpose…

How to Expand Zimbra Appliance Hard Drive and Mail Storage Capacity

Posted on July 23, 2012 by Justin Paul | 4 Comments

Lately I’ve been testing out the new Zimbra 8 Beta appliance in both my lab as well as on the cluster where I host my blog and some other sites. One of the first things I noticed was that by…

Veeam Exchange Explorer

Posted on July 19, 2012 by Justin Paul | 3 Comments

Exchange Explorer from Veeam is a product that was just released into public beta; and I must say that it is probably something you are going to want to check out. The idea behind this product is to get rid…

How-To: Migrate MS SQL Cluster to a New SAN

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Justin Paul | 34 Comments

During a recent SAN installation I ran into a Microsoft SQL cluster that needed to be migrated from an old SAN to a new SAN. After doing a bunch of reading and testing I developed the plan listed below. As…

Zimbra 8.0 Beta 1

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments

Wow! That is pretty much the only word that I have to describe what I just read from the first 6 pages of the Zimbra Collaboration Server 8 (Z8 hereafter) Release Notes. If everything in the release notes holds up…

Using Veeam with Data Domain DeDupe Appliances

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Justin Paul | 17 Comments

Veeam is a disk to disk backup solution which makes restore times much faster than tape backups, but one of the drawbacks is the massive amount of disk space required to keep full backup images for long periods of time…

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