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Joe Houghes

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AUSTIN POWERSHELL USER GROUP - FROM SCRIPTING TO TOOLMAKING: TAKING THE NEXT
STEP WITH POWERSHELL

Wed, Nov 27, 2019 About a month after my presentation of my “From Scripting to
Toolmaking: Taking the Next Step With Powershell” session presented at
SpiceWorld 2019, I presented the same topic to the Austin PowerShell User Group.
Having a longer period of time to give my presentation led to me being a little
bit less rushed, and gave me some time to demo some advanced methods for better
performance with PowerShell. You can get more details on the presentation in my
blog post about SpiceWorld, the video of the presentation here, and the version
of the slides from this session here.
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BEING EFFECTIVE AT TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION - TECHNOLOGY NOT REQUIRED

Wed, Nov 27, 2019 The leaders of the NY/NJ VMUG chapters selected me to present
to their usercon in September 2019, for a session titled “Being Effective at
Technical Communication - Technology Not Required”. This session is meant to
help IT Pros more effectively deliver their presentations and messages, both
within their current organizations, and throughout their careers. Many of us
focus too much on the technology which is part of our roles, and we do not give
enough attention to developing soft skills such as effective communications.
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SPICEWORLD 2019 - FROM SCRIPTING TO TOOLMAKING: TAKING THE NEXT STEP WITH
POWERSHELL

Wed, Nov 27, 2019 I got selected to present at SpiceWorld (hosted by Spiceworks)
in September 2019, for a session titled “From Scripting to Toolmaking: Taking
the Next Step With Powershell”. I also got to attend a great PowerShell workshop
and a few sessions by one of my PowerShell heroes, Jeff Hicks, and to chat with
another Microsoft MVP and Veeam Vanguard, Dave Kuwala. It was pretty cool to see
my picture next to these two on the speakers page.
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VEEAMON 2019 PRESENTATION – AUTOMATE YOURSELF OUT OF A BACKUP JOB: ADVANCED
POWERSHELL AND API USAGE

Thu, May 30, 2019 I have had requests to make my slides from the newest
“Automate Yourself Out of a Backup Job” presentation available, so I am finally
getting them posted here for public download. The attachment is only a PDF
export of the presentation slides themselves. I will be working on recording my
demo videos with some added voiceover, so they will be available outside of the
recorded breakout sessions posted on the VeeamON site.
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TECH FIELD DAY EXTRA VMWORLD 2018 – RUNECAST

Sat, Oct 27, 2018 DISCLAIMER: I was invited to join in for a few vendor
presentations during Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2018, but I was provided
any compensation, only stickers/swag. No one requires that I write this blog
post, nor did they request it. I have written my honest opinion about this
vendor, product and the presentation made during Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld
US 2018. Runecast was the third and final presentation which I attended at Tech
Field Day Extra during VMworld 2018.
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HPE STORAGE TECH DAY STARTING NOW

Tue, Oct 9, 2018 HPE has invited a great group of bloggers and influencers to
join for HPE Storage Tech Day. We are here to get a deep dive on all things
storage within the HPE ecosystem, including all of the topics seen here: You can
find out more by watching the livestream, by keeping an eye here for blog posts
as a follow-up, or by checking content from anyone within this great list of
bloggers:
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TECH FIELD DAY EXTRA VMWORLD 2018 – QUALI

Sun, Oct 7, 2018 DISCLAIMER: I was invited to join in for a few vendor
presentations during Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2018, but I was not
compensated in any way, I only grabbed some stickers/swag during this event
hosted by GestaltIT and the Tech Field Day organization. No one requires that I
write this blog post, nor did they request it. I have written my honest opinion
about this vendor, product and the presentation made during Tech Field Day Extra
at VMworld US 2018.
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TECH FIELD DAY EXTRA VMWORLD 2018 – JETSTREAM SOFTWARE

Tue, Oct 2, 2018 DISCLAIMER: I was invited to join in for a few vendor
presentations during Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2018, but I was not
compensated in any way, I only grabbed some stickers/swag during this event
hosted by GestaltIT and the Tech Field Day organization. No one requires that I
write this blog post, nor did they request it. I have written my honest opinion
about this vendor, product and the presentation made during Tech Field Day Extra
at VMworld US 2018.
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STORAGE FIELD DAY 17 IS ABOUT TO BEGIN

Thu, Sep 20, 2018 After too long of a hiatus, I am out in Silicon Valley this
week for the honor of being a first-time delegate for Tech Field Day,
specifically at the Storage Field Day 17 event. I’ve still got posts coming from
TFDx at VMworld 2018. This is the event specific page where you can find out
more about Storage Field Day 17. Here is where you can learn more about the
awesomeness that is the ecosystem of Tech Field Day.
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FYI: VEEAM CREDENTIAL ERRORS AFTER APRIL/MAY 2018 WINDOWS PATCHES

Thu, May 31, 2018 I just wanted to post this up in case it helps someone else
out. Short recap: Starting yesterday, when our VBR server was inadvertently
rebooted and finished applying some patches that were outstanding for many weeks
(don’t get me started on the fiasco of a background story), we started getting
multiple failures and error messages. I only caught this while doing a job
reconfiguration and trying to map a cloned job to an existing backup chain,
which was failing with an error of “Unable to perform data sovereignty check…".
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VEEAMON 2018 PRESENTATION – AUTOMATE YOURSELF OUT OF A (BACKUP) JOB

Tue, May 15, 2018 I had some folks who have asked for a copy of my presentation
titled ‘Automate Yourself Out of a (Backup) Job’. Below is both a PDF export of
the presentation slides, along with a copy of the full PPT with the embedded
videos. PDF Version is available here, and the full PowerPoint version with
embedded videos is available here. I hope this helps y’all out on your path and
gives you some benefit within your own environments.
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INSTALLING THE PURE STORAGE PLUGIN FOR VEEAM BACKUP & RECOVERY SNAPSHOT
INTEGRATION

Sun, Apr 15, 2018 Whew, that title is a mouthful. This post will cover the
installation and configuration of the Pure Storage plugin for Veeam Backup &
Recovery, but we’ll incorporate some background first. One of the most
significant enhancements released with Veeam 9.5U3 is one from which most users
have not seen direct improvement — until now. The specific enhancement that I am
referring to is the Universal Storage API, which is the framework that storage
vendors can leverage to integrate their storage arrays to allow for Veeam to
offload snapshots for backup & recovery operations to the array, rather than
relying on VMware snapshots.
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EXAGRID INSTALLATION AND INITIALIZATION

Mon, Oct 30, 2017 We are testing out two new ExaGrid 40000E appliances. These
will be new initial target repositories for backups from Veeam Backup &
Recovery. This is a prime opportunity to get out another article about the
install and initialization of the ExaGrid hardware. I intend to follow with a
post about the benefits of the Veeam integration. ExaGrid is an exceptional idea
for their layout with the distinct partitions of a “landing zone” and “retention
zone”.
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FIRST IMPRESSIONS ON CWOM – A LESS GREEN TURBONOMIC

Thu, Oct 26, 2017 Early this year, there were talks of Cisco acquiring
Turbonomic. A few months back this became a partnership to release Cisco
Workload Optimization Manager (CWOM). This is one of the newest products
included in the Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite. Cisco Workload Optimization
Manager is now in its 1.1.3 release. Starting with this release, you can target
UCS Director as an orchestration target. I would love to leverage this, I now
need to get UCS Director back into the environment).
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OWN THE IMPOSTER SYNDROME

Wed, Oct 25, 2017 Howdy, this is Joe Houghes. I’d like to introduce myself some
in my first real post before I try and speak about technical content. This has
been a big year of change for me with regards to my career, personal life, and
social presence. As such, I want to share some reflection. This relates to my
own experience as someone new to sharing knowledge with others. I’m a run of the
mill 35-year-old out of shape IT geek who is a native of Austin, Texas.
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POTENTIAL UPGRADE ISSUES GOING TO CISCO UCS MANAGER 3.2(1D)

Sun, Aug 27, 2017 We recently upgraded a few of our UCS domains from 3.1(1h) and
3.1(2b) up to 3.2(1d) and we had issues with a few IO modules hanging for up to
2 hours with trying to activate the firmware. The backup version was updated
with no issues, but then the activation stalled through anywhere from 16 to 30
tries before failing. We decided to leave most of the faulted IOMs alone to see
what they would do, but after 2 hours we decided to attempt a reset of one IO
module, and that just made it angry…
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WELCOME TO THE BLOG

Sun, Aug 27, 2017 Howdy everyone, this is Joe. I recently got accepted into the
vExpert program for 2017 (second half) mostly based on internal and vendor
community contributions. It’s now time to become a bit more social and share
what I can with the wider community. I’m starting off with adding VMware content
about the VMworld 2017 experience. Along with that I’ll be sharing experiences a
UCS, PowerShell and VEEAM, and we’ll see where things go.
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