Justin's IT Blog

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…

Avoiding Disasters with Veeam 6 Replication

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Justin Paul | 25 Comments

Now that Veeam Backup and Replication 6 is out we can start talking about the best way to setup your Disaster Recovery site replication. Because of all of the new things included with Veeam 6 there are a couple ways…

Veeam v6: Your New Backup Army!

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Justin Paul | 4 Comments

Backup Army ? Huh you say? Well that is exactly what you can create with Veeam v6. Here is a great quote from one of the head cheese over at Veeam: “v6 backup proxies are like an army of drones.…

Free VMware Monitoring with vPanorama

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Justin Paul | 5 Comments

Today one of the emails that made it through my spam filter was from some company advertising a “Free VMware Monitoring Tool”, normally I would have just deleted it and moved on, but for some reason, I decided to check…

SANiQ 9.0 Kernel Panic Issue

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Last week I worked with HP on a customer SAN where two nodes had randomly rebooted all by themselves without any warning. Because they had another node and a failover manager all their volumes stayed online, but after the second…

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