How to visualize Zerto metrics using Grafana
Monitoring Zerto with Open source tools like Grafana and Prometheus
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Configuring ZVM Appliance Multi-Factor Authentication
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Converting REST API Scripts for ZVM Appliance
This post will help you when converting REST API scripts for Windows ZVM for use with ZVM appliances. Spoiler alert – every script that uses the Windows ZVM REST API will need (some) modifications before it will work with the ZVM Appliance. What has changed? The ZVM Appliance, which is replacing the Windows-based ZVM, is… -
Introducing the Linux Zerto Virtual Manager
With the release of Zerto 9.5u1 comes something pretty exciting for Zerto customers. It’s been something that customers have been asking for – for a long time. Zerto Virtual Manager Linux Appliance or Linux ZVM for short. It’s been a huge project which started before I rejoined Zerto, but the first version is finally here!… -
I’m back at Zerto (now HPE) in a new role!
It’s hard to believe that it has taken me over 6 months to sit down and write this post. Late last year I decided that Nasuni wasn’t for me, it wasn’t the people (Jeff, Paul, and Will, you guys are the best), it just wasn’t the perfect role for me; at the same time, I… -
MayaData launches Kubera Propel and Kubera Chaos
Palo Alto, CA – November 16th MayaData, a leading developer of open-source software for using Kubernetes as a data layer, announces the commercial availability of Kubera Propel and Kubera Chaos. Kubera Propel is based on the most popular open-source Container Attached Storage project, OpenEBS, which MayaData started and continues to lead. Kubera Chaos is based… -
Harbor: How to Deploy a Private Container Registry
What a container registry does Even a single docker host machine has to get its images from somewhere. That somewhere is a container registry. A container registry is typically a public server that allows multiple people to share these images. Container images are sort of like a zip file with everything a particular application (or… -
How to use a Cloudflare API Token for LetsEncrypt Validation on Ubuntu 20.04
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How to: Azure Custom DNS, Private Endpoints, and Zerto
Disclaimer PRIVATE ENDPOINTS REQUIRE GPV2 STORAGE ACCOUNTS. ZERTO IS A HIGH IO REPLICATION ENGINE AND GPV2 STORAGE ACCOUNTS HAVE AN EXPONENTIALLY HIGHER IO COST. (GPV1 = $.0004 per 10,000 READ OR WRITE IO, GPV2 = $.004 per 10,000 READ IO and $.05 per 10,000 WRITE IO). REPLICATING TO A GPV2 STORAGE ACCOUNT WITH ZERTO WILL… -
The Ultimate Nerd Raspberry Pi Cluster case version 2.0!
How do you make the Ultimate Nerd Raspberry Pi cluster case better!?! I wrote this article sometime in late 2019 or early 2020… apparently I forgot to click publish. Woops! So basically this post is about how I made my Pi cluster even better! One way is to make it twice as big! If you…
Passed: VCAP-DCD 510 Beta Exam
After a long wait, I finally received the papers from Pearson Vue confirming that I passed my VCAP-DCD 510 test. That has to be the hardest part of any beta test …. the long wait for the results! For anyone…
Blog’s Belated 2nd Birthday
JPaul.me Turns 2! I have to admit that this post is a bit embarrassing; I almost feel like I forgot my wife’s birthday in a way. Somehow I managed to completely forget about the 2-year mark of my first post,…
Surviving the Outage
Friday evening Ohio residents got hit by a pretty severe thunderstorm with 80+ mph winds. Needless to say everything was a mess, power was out, trees were down, anything not tied to the ground blew away. My wife called…
HP P2000 Performance Tool
One thing that the standard HP P2000 web interface does not touch at all is performance stats. In fact one of my biggest complaints about the box is that there was really no way to see any stats on the…
Accelerating Branch Office File Sharing with MS BranchCache
I’ve done a bunch of articles about how to save your bandwidth when you are trying to replicate backups and virtual machines to your disaster recovery site, however I don’t think I have ever talked about anything that accelerates active…
Storing Big Data with EMC Isilon
What is BIG DATA? 1PB … 16TB … 32GB? Honestly it means something different for everyone, but no matter what it means you you the main goal is to make managing it simple and easy. Isilon could be just the…
Lots of buzz in the VMware Space
Yesterday VMware publicly announced two projects that they have been working on, so I figured I would share some details on those projects that were mentioned in the presentation. First up is VMware Horizon, while it’s not new, they are…
The Missing Manual Part 3: Veeam Application Aware Backups
One thing that I don’t think is stressed enough in the Veeam manual is the “Application-Aware” checkbox that is, by default, not checked. Because Veeam (like most other image level backup software) do not do a true system state backup…
vExpert 2012!
After seeing my email box blow up this morning with new posts on the vExpert board I thought I better have a look and see if I was on the list of 2012 vExperts. Sure enough, my name was there!…
Findlay Lunch and Learn Presentation
As requested here is a copy of the Power Point that was presented at the Findlay Lunch and Learn Wednesday, March 21, 2012 Business Case for Virtualization If anyone has any questions or would like to do a follow-up chat,…