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	<title>Mike@ipHouse Blog &#187; vSphere</title>
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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>
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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>
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		<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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		<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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		<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>
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		<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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		<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>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>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>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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		<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>VMware vSphere takes me by storm</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2009/05/vmware-vsphere-takes-me-by-storm/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2009/05/vmware-vsphere-takes-me-by-storm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 22:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Official download was available on May 21st, 2009, and I was waiting anxiously for my license keys for the new vCenter (management console) and host license keys (that which is the hypervisor)&#8230; I got them on that day, and then proceeded to spend way too much time with it.  For some people, addiction is a bad thing. <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2009/05/vmware-vsphere-takes-me-by-storm/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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