How to: Azure Custom DNS, Private Endpoints, and Zerto
Disclaimer PRIVATE ENDPOINTS REQUIRE GPV2 STORAGE ACCOUNTS. ZERTO IS A HIGH IO REPLICATION ENGINE AND GPV2 STORAGE ACCOUNTS HAVE AN EXPONENTIALLY HIGHER IO COST. (GPV1 = $.0004 per 10,000 READ…
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How to Install VMware Drivers on a non-VMware Machine
This method of installing VMware Drivers is for those who don’t like the idea of cracking the VMware Tools installer and removing the parts that check for VMware based VMs.…
Hands on IoT at #MSBuild with the Azure MXChip DevKit
Last week was a week of firsts for me. It was the trip I had TSA PreCheck; it was the first time I have been to Seattle and it didn’t…
Azure Automation – How to quickly work with many subscriptions
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…
Azure Scale Sets – A HUGE boost for Zerto 7 RTO time
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…
Azure DevOps – Never manually create a Docker container again!
Azure DevOps is a suite of offerings from Microsoft that aims to help companies deliver better software faster. They have a great article on “what is DevOps” here. But why…
Importing a GitHub Repo to Azure DevOps Repo
Microsoft recently re-branded Virtual Studio Team Services into Azure DevOps. With it came a face-lift and some great new features. I have been using GitHub for my zPlanner project, and…
In 16 months Windows and SQL 2008 and 2008 R2 will no longer be supported, what’s your plan?
Let’s not kid each other, you or someone you know is still running Windows Server 2008, 2008 R2, or SQL 2008, 2008 R2 in production. I’m not trying to say…
Serial Consoles FTW like its 1978!
A little history If you’re older than me I need not explain what a serial console is, but if you are younger than me then let me give you a little…
Azure Quotas – How to request more Cloud
Everyone loves cloud! Right? But what if you run out? If you aren’t sure where you are on the “About to run out scale”, check out my article on how…