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	<title type="text">Ubiquitous Talk</title>
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	<updated>2013-09-20T18:30:23Z</updated>

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			<name>Mike La Spina</name>
						<uri>http://blog.laspina.ca/</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Exploring an IBM v7000 Storage Engine]]></title>
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		<id>http://blog.laspina.ca/?p=770</id>
		<updated>2013-09-20T18:30:23Z</updated>
		<published>2013-02-08T01:11:21Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="Storage" /><category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="IBM" /><category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="SVC" /><category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="Tier" /><category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="v7000" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Within the storage landscape today we have a multitude of products available to solve the never ending storage challenge. Every storage product has it&#8217;s own set of features and characteristics which deliver certain elements of value to storage architects like myself. Currently an opportunity surfaced in which an IBM v7000 storage engine was available for [...]]]></summary>
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		<author>
			<name>Mike La Spina</name>
						<uri>http://blog.laspina.ca/</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Running VMware&#8217;s vCSA on MSSQL]]></title>
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		<id>http://blog.laspina.ca/?p=702</id>
		<updated>2012-11-07T02:11:43Z</updated>
		<published>2012-03-25T17:10:55Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="VMware" /><category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="appliance" /><category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="Database" /><category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="MSSQL" /><category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="vCSA" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I really like the new vCenter Appliance, but I am not a fan of either the embedded DB2,DB2 or Oracle database options. It seems unusual that VMware did not support MSSQL on the first release of the appliance. I suspect they have their reasons but I prefer not to wait for it when I know [...]]]></summary>
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		<author>
			<name>Mike La Spina</name>
						<uri>http://blog.laspina.ca/</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Updated ZFS Replication and Snapshot Rollup Script]]></title>
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		<id>http://blog.laspina.ca/?p=661</id>
		<updated>2011-10-04T18:01:32Z</updated>
		<published>2011-10-04T18:01:32Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="Security" /><category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="Storage" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Thanks to the efforts of Ryan Kernan we have an updated ZFS replication and snapshot rollup script. Ryan&#8217;s OpenIdiana/Solaris/Illumos community contribution improves  the script to allow for a more dynamic source to target pool replication and changes the shapshot retention method to a specific number of snapshots rather than a Grandfather Father Son method. zfs-replication.sh Regards, Mike  ]]></summary>
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		<author>
			<name>Mike La Spina</name>
						<uri>http://blog.laspina.ca/</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[OpenSolaris Door Closes]]></title>
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		<id>http://blog.laspina.ca/?p=653</id>
		<updated>2010-08-25T03:26:11Z</updated>
		<published>2010-08-25T03:26:11Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="General" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Months of silence from Oracle on any official statement about OpenSolaris support and development have passed. With that inaction the OpenSolaris Governing Board has motioned to disband and has passed this motion. This now leaves Oracle alone with its not so open &#8220;Open Source&#8221; operating system. Unfortunately this inaction does not follow Larry Ellison&#8217;s public [...]]]></summary>
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		<author>
			<name>Mike La Spina</name>
						<uri>http://blog.laspina.ca/</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[The Illumos Project Launches]]></title>
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		<id>http://blog.laspina.ca/?p=648</id>
		<updated>2010-08-03T22:03:02Z</updated>
		<published>2010-08-03T22:03:02Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="General" /><category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="Illumos" /><category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="opensolaris" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[If you use or are interested in OpenSolaris then you should check out the Illumos Project which was announced today by Garrett D&#8217;Amore of Nexenta. It&#8217;s an excellent development project which initially is working toward delivering a compatible, fully open sourced version of the closed OpenSolaris binaries.  At first I thought this was going to [...]]]></summary>
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		<author>
			<name>Mike La Spina</name>
						<uri>http://blog.laspina.ca/</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Encapsulating VT-d Accelerated ZFS Storage within ESXi]]></title>
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		<id>http://blog.laspina.ca/?p=563</id>
		<updated>2010-05-06T21:28:19Z</updated>
		<published>2010-05-06T21:28:19Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="Storage" /><category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="VMware" /><category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="Acceleration" /><category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="Dedup" /><category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="Encapsulation" /><category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="IOMMU" /><category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="NFS" /><category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="VT-d" /><category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="zfs" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Some time ago I found myself conceptually provisioning ESXi hosts that could transition local storage in a distributed manner within an array of hypervisors. The architectural model likens itself to an amorphous cluster of servers which share a common VM client service that self provisions shared storage to it&#8217;s parent hypervisor or even other external [...]]]></summary>
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		<author>
			<name>Mike La Spina</name>
						<uri>http://blog.laspina.ca/</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[S7000 Storage Appliance Software 2010.02]]></title>
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		<id>http://blog.laspina.ca/?p=559</id>
		<updated>2010-03-13T16:13:40Z</updated>
		<published>2010-03-13T16:13:40Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="General" />		<summary type="html"><![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 [...]]]></summary>
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		<author>
			<name>Mike La Spina</name>
						<uri>http://blog.laspina.ca/</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Running ZFS over NFS as a VMware Store]]></title>
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		<id>http://blog.laspina.ca/?p=491</id>
		<updated>2010-02-14T07:10:48Z</updated>
		<published>2010-02-14T07:10:48Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="General" /><category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="Storage" /><category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="VMware" /><category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="aggregate" /><category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="cache" /><category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="Dedup" /><category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="NFS" /><category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="performance" /><category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="zfs" /><category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="ZIL" />		<summary type="html"><![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 [...]]]></summary>
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		<author>
			<name>Mike La Spina</name>
						<uri>http://blog.laspina.ca/</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Protecting Active Directory with Snapshot Strategies]]></title>
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		<id>http://blog.laspina.ca/?p=422</id>
		<updated>2009-12-23T22:38:18Z</updated>
		<published>2009-12-23T22:38:18Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="Security" /><category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="Storage" /><category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="VMware" /><category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="Active Directory" /><category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="best practice" /><category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="opensolaris" /><category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="Restore" /><category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="snapshot" /><category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="zfs" />		<summary type="html"><![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), [...]]]></summary>
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		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Mike La Spina</name>
						<uri>http://blog.laspina.ca/</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[SUN Delivers De-duplication on ZFS]]></title>
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		<id>http://blog.laspina.ca/?p=444</id>
		<updated>2009-11-03T02:46:35Z</updated>
		<published>2009-11-03T02:46:35Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="Storage" /><category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="Dedup" /><category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="opensolaris" /><category scheme="http://blog.laspina.ca" term="zfs" />		<summary type="html"><![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 [...]]]></summary>
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