Justin's IT Blog

Justifying the Cost of Virtual Desktops

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Justin Paul | 12 Comments

Recently I was putting together a proposal for a customer who needed to refresh 40 desktops, in the proposal I needed to compare the costs of replacing the aging desktops with new HP Desktop PC’s versus replacing them with VMware…

HP Storage TechDay (January 2012)

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

First I would like to thank Calvin and his team for inviting me out to Fort Collins for Hp TechDay, it truly was a great experience. Second I would like to say that this post should have been done two…

Vote for your Favorite Blog – JPAUL.ME

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

From vSphere-Land.com….. There are over 180 blogs dedicated to VMware virtualization, here’s your chance to pick your favorites and determine the top blogs. The last voting was over a year ago and new bloggers are springing up every month. When…

HP Storage TechDay

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

This week I’m off to Fort Collins Colorado to visit HP for their latest Tech Day on storage. This is my first invitation to the HP Tech Day events and I’m told they will be showing us all the latest…

Apple’s new Textbooks

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

While I’m not an Apple fanboy by any means, we do have two iPads at our house but I’ve always struggled with what productive use they have. Almost half of the apps on mine are games, and I would say…

Veeam NFR Keys for VMware and Microsoft Certified Professionals

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Brad Eley | 0 Comments

If you are a VMware vExpert, VMware Certified Professional (VCP), VMware Certified Instructor (VCI) or VMware User Group (VMUG) member, you can get a FREE 2-socket NFR license for Veeam Backup & Replication v6 for your home or work lab.…

Virtualization Project Worksheet

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

In an effort to make a migration to a virtual infrastructure easier, I have put together another document to aid in that process. This one tries to mimic the EMC SAN Worksheet you fill out when you get a new…

Veeam 6 Direct SAN Backups Fail

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

This is a pretty known issue in the Veeam world, but in case you are looking around for why your Direct from SAN backups are failing and don’t want to call support… If you are doing direct from SAN backups…

EMC VNX5300: My First Encounter

Posted on December 27, 2011 by Justin Paul | 11 Comments

I have worked with several EMC SAN’s as well as a slew of SAN’s from other vendors, but I had not yet gotten the opportunity to mess around with a VNX5300 before last week. This SAN is for an upcoming…

Veeam 6 Replication: Just how much better then V5?

Posted on December 26, 2011 by Justin Paul | 5 Comments

With version 6 of Veeam Backup and Replication comes an entirely new architecture on how to set up WAN replication of your virtual machines. Their marketing propaganda claims HUGE improvements in WAN replication speeds because of this change. If you…

Zerto Docs MCP — Part 2: Hybrid Search and a Curated Knowledge Layer

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