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	<title>Mike@ipHouse Blog &#187; Techie</title>
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		<title>The dilemma &#8211; OS updates vs OS type</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/08/the-dilemma-os-updates-vs-os-type/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/08/the-dilemma-os-updates-vs-os-type/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 20:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=409</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For years I have been a FreeBSD bigot. I love FreeBSD, the stability, performance, ease of use, and steady progression. But&#8230; Updates are kind of a chore, there is no such thing as true incremental updates, you either do patch updates against RELEASE, or you do world updates against STABLE. I am a STABLE kind <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/08/the-dilemma-os-updates-vs-os-type/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Storage, storage STORAGE!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/06/storage-storage-storage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=403</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[SInce last month, our Nexenta based storage cluster has been deployed and I have now moved production data onto it. A bump and bruise occurred last weekend (I had done an announcement already) and yesterday things burped again. The problem? Looks like an issue with the 2 mirrored boot drives of the first head unit <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/06/storage-storage-storage/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>A storage cluster is born</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/05/a-storage-cluster-is-born/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/05/a-storage-cluster-is-born/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 23:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=389</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is time to add space to our VMware cluster for storage of VMs for our customers. We started initially using Compellent SAN storage. Worked well, had a lot of space, but the performance was not what I was looking for (it is all SATA based), using F/C is far more complicated than we need <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/05/a-storage-cluster-is-born/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>HOW-TO: Carpet your data center</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/04/how-to-carpet-your-data-center/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/04/how-to-carpet-your-data-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=367</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today we announced the changes to our data center &#8211; you can read about that here. Now we are getting some feedback: How did you do it? Why did you do it? Why not shag? Those purple stripes clash with my servers, wtf? So, onward we go, with help from an office mate who <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/04/how-to-carpet-your-data-center/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Linux Distributions vs PHP</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/03/linux-distributions-vs-php/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/03/linux-distributions-vs-php/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=361</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The splintering of Linux distributions seems to be continuing! This week, I have had requests for PHP versions 5.3 and 5.2 on both Red Hat EL 5 and CentOS 5 &#8211; though never distribution supports higher than 5.1.6 in the official repositories. PHP 5.2 has been out quite a while. Ubuntu Hardy LTS has it <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/03/linux-distributions-vs-php/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Example cost: Virtual Private Cloud (updated)</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/02/example-cost-virtual-private-cloud-updated/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/02/example-cost-virtual-private-cloud-updated/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=343</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in September, 2009, I had written a post with a quick overview of what a private cloud (or infrastructure) looks like and some basic costs and information, including why it is a great product (I am biased). Since then, Dell has retired the PE2900III model server and items change, this is an update for <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/02/example-cost-virtual-private-cloud-updated/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Apache 1.3 &#8211; you were loved</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/02/apache-1-3-you-were-loved/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/02/apache-1-3-you-were-loved/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Networking]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cluster]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=330</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So, across my RSS feed today, I saw a blurb&#8230; Apache terminates &#8216;outated&#8217; web server What? I clicked the link and was sent off to The Register for their report on the issue. Apache 1.3 was released in July, 1998 &#8211; 12 years ago, and still in operation today. At ipHouse &#8211; we use 1.3 <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/02/apache-1-3-you-were-loved/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Shell service available</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/01/shell-service-available/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/01/shell-service-available/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=324</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Been a long week and I had to deal with some red tape internally (of my own creation!), but finally have some working shell service to sell to people who want it. I had posted last week about the issue(s) of shell services and decided that I would do the work to put this kind <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/01/shell-service-available/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The new iPad hype</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/01/the-new-ipad-hype/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/01/the-new-ipad-hype/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=319</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s the issue really? Oh noes, no camera? That&#8217;ll change I bet. No flash? Win in my book! No multitasking? Really, you wanna run more things, buy a computer. Now, the speculation about version 2 makes me laugh, but really, aren&#8217;t we at version 3? In my office common area, I have version 1, and <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/01/the-new-ipad-hype/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>UNIX Shell services, what&#8217;s the fuss?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/01/unix-shell-services-whats-the-fuss/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/01/unix-shell-services-whats-the-fuss/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=297</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Wowzers, quite a little thread going on in a newsgroup, but really, what&#8217;s the big deal? I think I know&#8230; Not everyone uses the Internet for viewing web pages and downloading pr0nself-help videos and television shows. The Internet itself has become much easier for the layman to use, and with that, these historical services are <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/01/unix-shell-services-whats-the-fuss/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Over Subscription vs Over Capacity &#8211; huh?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/01/over-subscription-vs-over-capacity-huh/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/01/over-subscription-vs-over-capacity-huh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=286</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, a whole slew of tweets showed up across my feed dealing with the perceived and measured issues across multiple public cloud providers infrastructure. One of the posts comes from Chris Hoff (this post in particular) that describes quite clearly what the differences are. Service providers (anyone doing cloud services, virtualization, colocation, bandwidth, whatever) live upon the <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/01/over-subscription-vs-over-capacity-huh/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>VMware releases vSphere 4.0 Update 1</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2009/11/vmware-releases-vsphere-4-0-update-1/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2009/11/vmware-releases-vsphere-4-0-update-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=275</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The crowd cheers! Though that might just be me :) I am very excited for this update and I hope that it goes as smoothly as other updates have gone. I have already updated 2 non-production systems (both ESX) and I am in the process of updating some non-production ESXi servers. One of the items I <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2009/11/vmware-releases-vsphere-4-0-update-1/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Example cost: Virtual Private Cloud on VMware</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2009/09/example-cost-virtual-private-cloud-on-vmware/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2009/09/example-cost-virtual-private-cloud-on-vmware/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=226</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last 6 months, I have helped multiple customers achieve their dream of a virtual machine environment built for them exclusively, but with abilities to control their virtual machine setup, configuration, turn up, tear down, etc.  These dedicated infrastructure environments are in the ipHouse data center. This isn&#8217;t &#8216;cloud computing&#8217; as many people think <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2009/09/example-cost-virtual-private-cloud-on-vmware/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Outbound Email Spam is teh suck</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2009/07/outbound-email-spam-is-teh-suck/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2009/07/outbound-email-spam-is-teh-suck/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=223</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No mispelling, just playing &#8216;new internet lingo&#8217; game.  Did I win? Let&#8217;s get serious&#8230; This week, multiple customer accounts were breached.  Starting approximately 3 weeks ago, a phish was sent out that some of our customers responded to, giving out their account information. We looked through our mail logs and found the users who had <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2009/07/outbound-email-spam-is-teh-suck/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>VMware releases HCL for ESXi 4.0</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2009/06/vmware-releases-hcl-for-esxi-40/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2009/06/vmware-releases-hcl-for-esxi-40/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=221</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Whew!  And about perfect timing for me. I was helping a friend understand that he could not operate ESXi 4.0 on his old server because of the requirement for a 64bit CPU environment. Today, VMware released this blog post touting the updates and a link to their actual hardware compatibility list, which covers vSphere 4.0 ESX and <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2009/06/vmware-releases-hcl-for-esxi-40/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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