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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…

Veeam Backup and Replication 6 Released!

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

Well It’s official, Veeam has officially released v6 of its Backup and Replication product, what a great start to the Christmas season. I have been beta testing v6 for a few months and have put it to work in a…

What’s new in Veeam v6!

Posted on November 26, 2011 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments

While I cannot yet share my experience or any details of the Veeam Backup and Replication v6 Beta that I have been using for over a month now, I would like to share a paper that Veeam released detailing the…

vTiger Open Source CRM

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

This post is a little late because of some time issues I had last week. So without further delay… This is week number three of my SMB Open Source software series and so far we have a back office server…

Ubuntu Desktop with Zentyal Integration

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Justin Paul | 4 Comments

This week I thought we should build on the Zentyal Linux Small Business Server that we took a look at last Friday. After all what good is a Linux server if you are still accessing it from a Windows desktop…

Zentyal Linux Small Business Server

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments

To start off my Friday open source project series I picked Zentyal. Zentyal is meant as a complete replacement for Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, as it has modules that do pretty much everything SBS can. The description from…

HTTP Load Balancing with vCloud and vShield Edge

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Justin Paul | 3 Comments

One of the features that I keep seeing in product documentation about vCloud and vShield is the ability for vShield Edge to do HTTP load balancing. However every time I go looking for the feature in vCloud Director I couldn’t…

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