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	<title>Mike@ipHouse Blog &#187; mike</title>
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	<description>Spewing from the heart</description>
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		<title>Searching for storage: Tegile</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2012/01/searching-for-storage-tegile/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2012/01/searching-for-storage-tegile/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blog post about Tegile, a storage vendor I learned about from a friend in the IT field working in education.

I'm very glad I followed up on the suggestion.]]></description>
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		<title>Oh sandbox, you need to grow</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/11/oh-sandbox-you-need-to-grow/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/11/oh-sandbox-you-need-to-grow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=523</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The buildup of our new sandbox for internal learning has run for a week and already we are running out of resources. Five old Dell PE1430 with 2 4-core processors but they max out at 8 GiB of RAM. That&#8217;s 40 GiB total for 7-8 people. This is a little tight. Digging through dead server <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/11/oh-sandbox-you-need-to-grow/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Building a sandbox requires planning</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/11/building-a-sandbox-requires-planning/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/11/building-a-sandbox-requires-planning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Networking]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ESXi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genius]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=517</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I mean it. 6 servers (5 operational as one is crashing itself repeatedly), 2 switches, and bandwidth. This should be easy to do! I mean: what could go wrong? Nick installed VMware ESXi 5.0 on the physical hardware. I then mounted up a NetApp FAS250, loaded some ISOs, installed Windows Server 2008R2, all smooth. Added <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/11/building-a-sandbox-requires-planning/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Storage Cluster; a year in review</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/11/storage-cluster-a-year-in-review/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/11/storage-cluster-a-year-in-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nexenta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Storage]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=505</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been 17 months since I deployed the Nexenta cluster for our VMware hosting platform at ipHouse. Unfortunately this post will not be positive. Storage system related problems on our Nexenta HA cluster: Thanksgiving weekend, 2010 February into March, 2011 October 22nd, 2011 Thanksgiving weekend of 2010 was not a good weekend.  I later found <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/11/storage-cluster-a-year-in-review/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Monitoring and measurement software, the search</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/10/monitoring-and-measurement-software-the-search/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/10/monitoring-and-measurement-software-the-search/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cluster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Load Balancing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SNMP]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=501</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While at VMworld 2011, I spent a lot of time at the expo (where companies were peddling their wares) looking for 2 items. Storage vendors who do things via NFS. Monitoring and measurement companies to help me consolidate the multiple pieces of software we run today. This post is about #2. I looked at a <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/10/monitoring-and-measurement-software-the-search/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>VMworld 2011 &#8211; what a busy week</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/09/vmworld-2011-what-a-busy-week/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/09/vmworld-2011-what-a-busy-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 19:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monitoring]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=495</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was in Las Vegas for VMworld 2011 this past week and what a busy week it was! 20,000+ people in attendance! I met many amazing people, saw quite a few new products, I enjoyed it 100%. I went to quite a few sessions on VMware troubleshooting, installation, and best practices, and a session on <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/09/vmworld-2011-what-a-busy-week/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>vCloud Director 1.5 cannot upload files error</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/09/vcloud-director-1-5-cannot-upload-files-error/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/09/vcloud-director-1-5-cannot-upload-files-error/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 18:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=489</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s say you have your vCloud Director cells behind a load balancer. You try to upload your files (.iso and .ovf images for either a vApp or media and receive an error message like: Error: Transferring files On page 98 of the vdc_15_admin_guide.pdf you will find a paragraph pointing out that you need to fill in <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/09/vcloud-director-1-5-cannot-upload-files-error/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Install of vCloud Director 1.5 fails to set up ESXi 4.1U1 hosts</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/09/install-of-vcloud-director-1-5-fails-to-set-up-esxi-4-1u1-hosts/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/09/install-of-vcloud-director-1-5-fails-to-set-up-esxi-4-1u1-hosts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 18:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=486</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the install documentation, VMware vSphere 4 ESX and ESXi 4.1 update 1 are supported. Install or upgrade to vCloud Director 1.5 will fail with the following error when trying to add the provider vDC: Could not retrieve state for sequence: seq_os This is easily fixed by editing the database table [os_id] and inserting the <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/09/install-of-vcloud-director-1-5-fails-to-set-up-esxi-4-1u1-hosts/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Slimy marketing tactics are insulting</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/08/slimy-marketing-tactics-are-insulting/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/08/slimy-marketing-tactics-are-insulting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=480</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Isilon &#8211; makers of what look to be a very cool scale-out NAS solution just sent me an email. Now, I was expecting their email, so this isn&#8217;t an issue of spam at all (in fact, when they scanned my badge at VMware Forum I commented that I would be watching for their email, and <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/08/slimy-marketing-tactics-are-insulting/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>vCloud Director Cluster got you down?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/04/vcloud-director-cluster-got-you-down/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/04/vcloud-director-cluster-got-you-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 23:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=474</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[vCloud Director &#8211; the VMware solution to building on-demand infrastructure for the enterprise and cloud computing&#8230;works. But there are some trials you must encounter and complete before things work smoothly. TL;DR: I failed at first but found the problem with the issue being firewall services blocking inter-cell communications. This post is about the log entry <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/04/vcloud-director-cluster-got-you-down/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle, why do I need X to install?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/04/oracle-why-do-i-need-x-to-install/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/04/oracle-why-do-i-need-x-to-install/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2011 17:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=471</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is just a rant and should never be read. Need to install Orcale database services for some VMware updates dealing with their vCloud initiative. So, need an RPM based system (CentOS, RHEL, SLES) to do so, okay, I can deal with that I guess. But it also requires X11 to be installed to do <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/04/oracle-why-do-i-need-x-to-install/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>MySQL, data partitioning, and me</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/01/mysql-data-partitioning-and-me/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/01/mysql-data-partitioning-and-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 01:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=459</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The basics of what I learned using MySQL and how to take live monolithic tables and convert them into partitioned tables without downtime or service interruption, with examples.]]></description>
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		<title>Newegg continues to spam</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/12/newegg-continues-to-spam/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/12/newegg-continues-to-spam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 22:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Email]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=453</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On December 8th, 2010, the employee spammed in the last post and a new employee were sent unsolicited email (spam) by Newegg. So now that&#8217;s 3 email addresses, and while I was a customer of Newegg in the past, I have never used my work email address with them, and the other 2 people recently <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/12/newegg-continues-to-spam/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Newegg sends spam, can not learn from previous mistakes</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/11/newegg-sends-spam-can-not-learn-from-previous-mistakes/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/11/newegg-sends-spam-can-not-learn-from-previous-mistakes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=444</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I know that for many, Newegg is a great place to buy things. I can no longer in good conscience recommend or advocate using NewEgg as a provider of your computing and electronic needs. Let me step back a bit, back to August 18th, 2010 and August 30th, 2010 when I received unsolicited email (in <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/11/newegg-sends-spam-can-not-learn-from-previous-mistakes/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>DNS MX vs IPv4 &amp; IPv6</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/11/dns-mx-vs-ipv4-ipv6/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/11/dns-mx-vs-ipv4-ipv6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=434</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday &#8211; a very interesting issue cropped up&#8230; Another local provider had email warnings being generated that they could not connect to our frontend MX servers. The error itself was: IPv6 is not supported Which is not very clear for a reason email can not be delivered. I mean, my systems are working fine with <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/11/dns-mx-vs-ipv4-ipv6/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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