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Posted on by Brett Sinclair

I am highly experienced across diverse technologies and industries, with a recent focus on Cloud, Workflow Automation/Orchestration, Storage, Virtualization platforms, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery & Data Center Management/Optimization. Certifications: https://www.credly.com/users/brett-sinclair/badges?sort=-state_updated_at&page=1 -Microsoft Azure Administrator – AZ104 -Microsoft Information Protection Administrator – SC400 -Proofpoint Certified Insider Threat Specialist -Amazon Web Services (AWS) Continue Reading

CommVault 11 and VMware – ‘Virtualize Me’ Restores

Posted on by Brett Sinclair

Virtualize Me is a really useful feature that I’ve not had the requirement to use until recently. For any number of reasons, most companies still have actual Physical Hosts running normal workloads. They may not have been virtualized for a similar number of reasons. That’s life. I found myself with Continue Reading

Quick Fix-VMware Workstation- The user did not accept the license agreement by passing EULAS_AGREED=1 on the command line

Posted on by Brett Sinclair

One of the nice benefits of being a vExpert is the licenses kindly provided to various VMware apps including VMware Workstation. After receiving the codes this year and downloading the latest version, it should have been a simple process to install, right ? Dbl-Click, next, next, next…. ? Moments after confirming Continue Reading

MiTrend- Self Service Performance Analysis for EMC VNX/VMAX/Clariion

Posted on by Brett Sinclair

The ability to do Performance analysis is an essential requirement for an Admin. Being able to detect bottlenecks that are contributing to degraded performance can have an immediate impact in saving business $$ and remaining agile. Of equal importance is capacity planning and trending. For EMC kit, the old failthful Continue Reading

EMC Recoverpoint+VMware SRM – ‘discover Arrays’ failed.

Posted on by Brett Sinclair

I noticed this little gem today whilst in the process of adjusting some SRM documentation and grabbing some screenshots;                 I hadn’t received any alerts so didn’t think it was a major issue, but sounded like it’s the sort of error that may be annoying during execution Continue Reading

VMware EVO:RAIL : SDDC in a box

Posted on by Brett Sinclair

Rumours of the VMware hyper-converged appliance have been riding high for some months under the guise of “Project Marvin”, now official, the details are out about EVO:RAIL VMware EVO:RAlL landing page is here. From the release; VMware EVO: RAIL™ combines compute, networking, and storage resources into a hyper-converged infrastructure appliance Continue Reading