Since my “Finally a Geek Travel Router I Love” post over a year ago I have upgraded to a GL-AR750S travel router. It’s essentially the same thing, except it has Gigabit ports and external antennas. I won’t lie, I actually bought two of them, and if my wife asks, I actually use both now! I…
If you weren’t able to make it to KubeCon 2019 you missed a lot of news. This is a summary post with links to all of the major press releases at KubeCon 2019 that I’m aware of. If you have more news please post a comment and link to the post. (I’ll update this post…
Zerto previews it VAIO filter at VMWorld 2019 Zerto’s Rob Strechay and VMware’s Paul Turner presented to a packed crowd, including many current Zerto customers, all eager to learn about the new IO filtering option. Aside from the presentation, Zerto had plenty of technical talent in the Zerto booth to give hands-on demos of the…
There are lots of ways to interact with Zerto these days, but one of the easiest ways was just released! Wes Carrol has been working on a pretty awesome project that was recently migrated to the new, centralized, Zerto GitHub repo. Today, he also got it published to the official PowerShell Gallery too! Why use…
Lately, I have been writing various scripts to automate Azure tasks for our Zerto Training team. One of the unique things about deploying training labs at scale is that we use MANY Azure subscriptions in order to properly isolate and scale labs. So when a change needs to be made, we need to make the…
Zerto 7 was officially released April 16th, 2019 and most of the headlines were around the new integrated backup technologies. However, there is another story that hasn’t made as many headlines, but is equally awesome! Zerto has been able to replicate and recover VMs into Azure for several years now, and to do that we…
You’ve probably heard that ZertoCon 2019 is going to be in Nashville Tennessee, Monday May 20 – Wednesday May 22. If you havent already registered you can do that here. In years past we have always done a session related to APIs/PowerShell and scripting. The chairs are PACKED, to say the least. This year we’re…
You probably spent the last month or two reading 2019 prediction posts. Or posts about how those posts were absolutely wrong… LOL So, instead of telling you what technologies and products will make waves in 2019, I thought it would be more beneficial (and fun) to talk about what you can do in 2019 to…
In the technology sector it’s safe to say that no one has done the same job for the duration of their entire career. Things just change too fast for that to ever happen. In my experience what separates those who love their career and those who get burned out is how well that person learns…
My day started off with a nice walk from the hotel to the Microtek facility… about 1.2 miles, which is probably more than I have walked at any single stretch in about 1.2 years, but it was worth it. First…
Next week I will be attending a VMware vSphere Design Course in Chicago and thought it would be interesting to write an article on designing out a virtualization solution before, and then do a follow up post on what I…
Disclaimer: This is a pretty long article and explains the general overview of the network. I have not gotten into the technical setup of the radios in this article. I will save that for a future article. Background My family…
Standard Disclaimer: I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you! I encourage you to use other backup methods in conjunction with this method so that your data is 100% secure. This method is strictly for supplementing…
Last week I was discussing how I normally lay out a VMWare cluster so that it has no single point of failure with one of the storage architects for HP. He made some suggestions that got me thinking, so the…
So I have been contemplating buying a new USB drive to hold some virtual machines and ISO’s for work related stuff when I came across the Iomega IX series. Since my I.T. budget is smaller then most SMB’s I decided…
My first “real” post! So my job day to day is to design out solutions for customers, one of the biggest things I run into are small business’s who have heard the good word of virtualization or attended a show…