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		<title>Controlling Snapshot Noise</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 03:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike La Spina</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<title>Additional VMFS Backup Automation script features</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike La Spina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was conversing with William Lam about my blog entry Protecting ESX VMFS Stores with Automation and we exchanged ideas on the simple automation script that I originally posted. William is well versed in bash and has brought more functionality to the original automation script. We now have a have a rolling backup set 10 versions deep with folder augmented organization based [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protecting ESX VMFS Stores with Automation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike La Spina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some time ago I shared some interesting information about VMFS volumes that I found using direct analysis in my blog named Understanding VMFS volumes. This spawned some discussions on the VMware Community forums and it became apparent that an automated backup of the critical VMFS info could be useful in the event of an undesirable security event that impacts our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ZFS Snapshot Rollup Bash Script</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike La Spina</dc:creator>
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As a follow on to my blog entry Provisioning Disaster Recovery with ZFS, iSCSI and VMware I created this snapshot rollup script to help maintain the growing snapshots and minimize disk consumption. The script is an add-on to the zfsadm account cron jobs and runs under the security privileges of the zfsadm user detailed in that [...]]]></description>
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