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Travel Blog 1 - Boston

  Since I enjoy traveling and food, I thought I’d try documenting my experiences and start a blog.   This will be my first recapping a short weekend trip to Boston for a friends birthday.   Later I will recap some of the trips I took earlier in 2024 and ones from 2023, if I can remember enough details! Off to Boston… While I try and stick with one airline (United) to earn the miles and status, I will also shop around for direct/cheaper flights and see if any others make sense.   Flying out of Pittsburgh can be challenging for direct flights and to Boston, United doesn’t provide that.   I went with Delta for half the price of Untied and it was a direct to/from.   I typically don’t check a bag unless I purchase items that require it.   In this case, on my way home, I had to check my bag and was happy to find out it was free with Delta… Bonus! I arrived in Boston early Friday morning and met up with a friend from Denver in the airport and headed to th...
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Blog Series Part 1 - Intro

Hello… This is the first in a series of blogs I plan on posting regularly (fingers crossed).   The first topic I will cover is my use of Veeam, how/why we started using it, and what we are doing with it now.   I will also plan to discuss business continuity/disaster recovery, our virtual infrastructure including, UCSX, storage, backups, and vSphere.   The purpose of these are not to be super technical but just to share how we over came small challenges and improved our processes and environment. Let me start by introducing myself… My name is Eric Kubla and I’ve been in IT for 24 years, and I’ve been with my current employer for 15+ years and the last 6 as the IT Server Manager.   I have been a VMUG (VMware User Group) leader for the Pittsburgh VMUG group for 10+ years and US East VMUG Regional Champion Leader for 2023-2024.   I enjoy the community and attending VMUG UserCons/events, especially as a community speaker.   I attended 9 UserCons in 2023 and sp...
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