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Open Source Project Reviews

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

One of the things that I spent a lot of my free time on while I was at college was open source projects. I loved to surf Sourceforge.com and Freshmeat.net looking for interesting projects that I could mess around with.…

Microsoft Licensing in a Virtual World

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Justin Paul | 4 Comments

I have thought about touching this topic several times, and each time I start to write the post I find myself stopping. I think it’s mostly because this debate is hard for some people to get their hands around, and…

Integrity Check Failures with VMware Data Recovery 2

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Justin Paul | 12 Comments

In case you have been living under a rock for the last couple years I should first mention that VMware does offer it’s own backup solution for vSphere. This product is called VMware Data Recovery. Think of it as a…

VMware SRM5 and vSphere Replication

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Justin Paul | 4 Comments

With the release of VMware vSphere 5 also came the release of many other products, one of those was Site Recovery Manager 5. Site Recovery Manager is an add-on product to vSphere that allows for a disaster recovery plan to…

VMware View 1.2 iPad Client Released

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

This morning my iPad was showing one program that had an update available, and after checking which one I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was the VMware View Client. It looks like this is release 1.2 and holds…

Thinking about trying out VDI and Terminals? Check out HP ThinPro Demo

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

This morning while looking for the updated HP t5745 firmware I noticed another package on the support page called “HP ThinPro Operating System Demonstration Package”. So naturally I followed the link to figure out what sort of demo this was,…

Second Technology First article

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

My second printed article just came out in the October Issue, make sure to pick up a copy if you are in the Dayton area. Of you can check it out online here: http://www.technologyfirst.org/images/stories/techfirst/magazines/2011/2011_10.pdf starting on page 11. Technologyfirst.org is…

Tweaking VMware’s Round Robin Settings

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Justin Paul | 12 Comments

One thing that should always be done when using 1Gb iSCSI is setting up Multipathing, and in all version of vSphere they have included NMP or Native Multi Pathing. With NMP comes a path selection method called Round Robin which…

HyperIP WAN Acceleration with Veeam

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Justin Paul | 4 Comments

One thing that hasn’t changed much in IT is the lack of bandwidth. It seems that no matter how fast of a connection you have, there is always wait time because of the large amount of data that you are…

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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