Justin's IT Blog

Veeam V7 vCloud Director Preview

Posted by Justin on April 26, 2013 | 2 Comments

Veeam has been advertising some of their Veeam Backup and Replication V7 features for a while now, but I finally got access to the beta and was allowed to bring you a preview of some of the new technology. This post is about how you can use Veeam V7 to protect a vCloud Director environment, and I figured what better test lab environment to protect than the Hands ... Read more »

My Frustration with HyperV, do you really save anything?

Posted by Justin on April 16, 2013 | 28 Comments

If you follow my Twitter feed you knew this article was coming… After spending about 3 hours on the phone with a customer trying to help them get their CSV (Cluster Shared Volume) for HyperV back online (I was on the phone not because I’m a HyperV guy but because I implemented the storage they use for HyperV) I decided that maybe I should do a deep ... Read more »

VMware View 5.2 is now GA

Posted by Justin on March 7, 2013 | 0 Comment

Today VMware View 5.2 was released, and with it comes a list of new features. Some of which might be helpful and some of which you might never use Here is the list: Ability to add Nvidia GPU’s to the View servers… this allows you to run programs like AutoCAD that require intensive rendering and not over work the CPU in your View Servers Improved ... Read more »

Zerto: First week experience

Posted by Justin on February 25, 2013 | 3 Comments

Well its been about a week now that I have been running Zerto replication between my colo and my house. I started out with just replicating my blog, but am now replicating 7 virtual machines. All our web or DNS type servers, and all are maintaining and RPO of less than 30 seconds…. most of the time its less than 8 seconds. I have also been able to test ... Read more »

Zerto, could it be the answer to your DR prayers?

Posted by Justin on February 20, 2013 | 0 Comment

From the Zerto site: Zerto provides enterprise-class business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) solutions for virtualized infrastructure and cloud. Zerto won Best of Show at VMworld 2011, as well as 2011 Product of the Year Gold Award because our software, Zerto Virtual Replication, is the industry’s first hypervisor-based replication solution for tier-one ... Read more »