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		<title>S7000 Storage Appliance Software 2010.02</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quietly on Wednesday March 10th SUN (Oracle) released the S7000 series 2010.02 ak Fishworks software release. This release sets an important milestone for the S7000 product line as it includes some very desirable features.
http://wikis.sun.com/display/FishWorks/ak-2010.02.09.0.0+Release+Notes
Here is a brief summary of this release.
Fibre Channel &#8211; FC targets are now a reality and are supported with the SUN [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.laspina.ca/ubiquitous/s7000storage-appliance-software-2010-02</link>
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		<title>Running ZFS over NFS as a VMware Store</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
NFS is definitely a very well rounded high performance file storage system and it certainly serves VMware Stores successfully over many storage products. Recently one of my subscribers asked me if there was a reason why my blogs were more centric to iSCSI. Thus the question was probing for a answer to a question many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.laspina.ca/ubiquitous/running-zfs-over-nfs-as-a-vmware-store</link>
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		<title>Protecting Active Directory with Snapshot Strategies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Using snapshots to protect Active Directory (AD) without careful planning will most definitely end up in a complete disaster. AD is a loosely consistent distributed multi-master database and it must not be treated as a static system.  Without carefully addressing how AD works with Time Stamps, Version Stamps, Update Sequence Numbers (USNs), Globally Unique Identification numbers (GUIDs), [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.laspina.ca/ubiquitous/protecting-active-directory-with-snapshot-strategies</link>
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		<title>SUN Delivers De-duplication on ZFS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today marks yet another great milestone for OpenSolaris and OpenStorage. SUN has as promised, delivered a much anticipated de-duplication feature for us to explore and use.  I must say that I am very excited about it and with no doubt this is a very cool feature indeed The ideas for how to use it are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.laspina.ca/ubiquitous/sun-delivers-de-duplication-on-zfs</link>
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		<title>Controlling Snapshot Noise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The ability to perform file system, database and volume snapshots grants us many data protection benefits. However there are some serious problems that can occur if we do not carefully architect snapshot based storage infrastructures. This blog entry will discuss some of the issues with data noise induction and data integrity when using point in time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.laspina.ca/ubiquitous/controlling-snapshot-noise</link>
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		<title>Securing COMSTAR and VMware iSCSI connections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Connecting VMware iSCSI sessions to COMSTAR or any iSCSI target provider securely is required to maintain a reliable system. Without some level of initiator to target connection gate keeping we will eventually encounter a security event. This can happen from a variety of sources, for example a non-cluster aware OS can connect to an unsecured VMware shared storage LUN and cause severe damage [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.laspina.ca/ubiquitous/securing-comstar-and-vmware-iscsi-connections</link>
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		<title>Creating USB based boot media for ESX 4 installs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a follow on to my Automating vSphere ESX4 Host Installations blog I have detailed a howto create USB based boot media using syslinux 3.82 and the ESX 4 installation source files. The process is actually quite simple as we can create the bootable USB from a Windows system.  You can also do the same with extlinux but most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.laspina.ca/ubiquitous/creating-usb-based-boot-media-for-esx-4-installs</link>
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		<title>Automating vSphere ESX4 host installations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Automating ESX 4 installations is a great way to save time and to provide a method of server recovery in the event of hardware or software failure. It creates consistent high quality repeatable installations that can be quickly modified to handle new and changing hardware. The process can also provide some detailed levels of VMware [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.laspina.ca/ubiquitous/automating-vsphere-esx4-host-installations</link>
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		<title>Power House Blog on NFS and VMware lead by Chad Sakac</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another great read from Chad Sakac and company.
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We were quite a bit surprised to see how popular our “Multivendor iSCSI” postwas. The feedback was overwhelming and very supportive of industry leaders partnering to ensure customer’s success with VMware. While writing that post, we (Vaughn Stewart from NetApp and Chad Sakac from EMC) discussed following up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.laspina.ca/ubiquitous/power-house-blog-on-nfs-and-vmware-lead-by-chad-sakac</link>
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		<title>VMware Kernel Return Codes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From time to time I find myself reaming through VMware log files in an effort to diagnose various failure events. This is certainly not my favorite task so to make the process a little less painful I decided to extract the vmkernel return codes from the VMware open source libraries and place an easily accessible tabled version of them on my blog. While [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.laspina.ca/ubiquitous/vmware-kernel-return-codes</link>
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