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		<title>WTF (What The FEX) are you talking about?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 05:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FEX, or Fabric Extender technology is a core part of Cisco&#8217;s DC strategy. There are multiple marketing FEX terms that mean different things, and I&#8217;ve seen much confusion from customers &#38; peers alike regarding these terms. There are four main FEX terms: ToR-FEX (also called &#8220;Rack-FEX&#8221;), Blade-FEX, Adapter-FEX and finally VM-FEX. Before continuing, it would [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualeverything.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12368548&amp;post=445&amp;subd=virtualeverything&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Peeling back the onion on HP-FEX</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 21:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[HP]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, HP and Cisco in collaboration released a FEX module for the HP C7000 chassis. See here and here to read about the release from both HP and Cisco&#8217;s perspective. This post is not to discuss the business decisions behind this product release, but rather to take a closer look at the HP-FEX architecture from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualeverything.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12368548&amp;post=424&amp;subd=virtualeverything&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting the VMware VSA running in a nested ESXi environment</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 04:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[storage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[storage virtualization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the previous VSA article we took at a look at the storage architecture of the appliance, as well as some of the caveats and considerations when deploying it. In this article, we&#8217;ll take a look at how to get it up and running in a nested ESXi environment as well as some of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualeverything.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12368548&amp;post=384&amp;subd=virtualeverything&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A closer look at VMware&#8217;s Virtual Storage Appliance 1.0 (VSA)</title>
		<link>http://virtualeverything.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/a-closer-look-at-vmwares-virtual-storage-appliance-1-0-vsa-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 06:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>veverything</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[storage]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://virtualeverything.wordpress.com/?p=373</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the new products which accompanies the vSphere 5.0 release is the Virtual Storage Appliance. The purpose of this product is to allow customers to utilize the local disks on the ESXi hosts in order to create a shared storage environment for their virtual infrastructure, thus being able to take advantage of the advanced [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualeverything.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12368548&amp;post=373&amp;subd=virtualeverything&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Simplifying SAN management for VMware Boot from SAN, utilizing Cisco UCS and Palo</title>
		<link>http://virtualeverything.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/simplifying-san-management-for-vmware-boot-from-san-utilizing-cisco-ucs-and-palo/</link>
		<comments>http://virtualeverything.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/simplifying-san-management-for-vmware-boot-from-san-utilizing-cisco-ucs-and-palo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 04:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>veverything</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://virtualeverything.wordpress.com/?p=340</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the great features of the Cisco UCS is the Palo or Virtual Interface Card (VIC). When utilizing this card with UCS, it allows the administrator to create many virtual NICs (vNICs) and virtual HBAs (vHBAs) (up to 128 with some limitations). In a VMware environment, the use of vNICs is well understood &#8212; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualeverything.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12368548&amp;post=340&amp;subd=virtualeverything&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FCoE&#8217;s impact on a Storage Administrator</title>
		<link>http://virtualeverything.wordpress.com/2011/05/30/fcoes-impact-on-a-storage-administrator/</link>
		<comments>http://virtualeverything.wordpress.com/2011/05/30/fcoes-impact-on-a-storage-administrator/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 02:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>veverything</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[FC]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://virtualeverything.wordpress.com/?p=313</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As FCoE is gaining more traction and moving from a &#8220;vision&#8221; to a real consideration for many customers, one of the most common question I get from CxOs is: &#8220;I understand the benefits of FCoE in my datacenter, but how it will impact my storage team? Will they need to invest significant amounts of time  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualeverything.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12368548&amp;post=313&amp;subd=virtualeverything&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>VMAX on a Clariion Planet, Part2: storage layout and provisioning</title>
		<link>http://virtualeverything.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/vmax-on-a-clariion-planet-part2-storage-layout-and-provisioning/</link>
		<comments>http://virtualeverything.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/vmax-on-a-clariion-planet-part2-storage-layout-and-provisioning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 03:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>veverything</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[EMC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[storage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VMAX]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://virtualeverything.wordpress.com/?p=270</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In part2 of this series, we&#8217;ll take a look at the storage layout and provisioning basics comparison between VMAX and Clariion. First a look at how storage is composed on the two arrays. On a Clariion (or VNX block) you have the following components that make up the storage:  physical disks, a RAID group, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualeverything.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12368548&amp;post=270&amp;subd=virtualeverything&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>VMAX on a Clariion Planet, Part1: A look at architecture and IO flows</title>
		<link>http://virtualeverything.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/vmax-on-a-clariion-planet-part1/</link>
		<comments>http://virtualeverything.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/vmax-on-a-clariion-planet-part1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[EMC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[storage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VMAX]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://virtualeverything.wordpress.com/?p=219</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This article is focuses on understanding VMAX from the perspective of users who are familiar with Clariion arrays, terminology and architecture. Put another way, a guide to VMAX for Clariion users. We&#8217;ll take a look at the architecture similarities/differences, terminology and a look at basic storage administrative tasks. When Clariion is mentioned in this article, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualeverything.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12368548&amp;post=219&amp;subd=virtualeverything&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EMC Storage Pool Deep Dive: Design Considerations &amp; Caveats</title>
		<link>http://virtualeverything.wordpress.com/2011/03/05/emc-storage-pool-deep-dive-design-considerations-caveats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has been a common topic of discussion with my customers and peers for some time. Proper design information has been scarce at best, and some of these details appear to not be well known or understood, so I thought I would conduct my own research and share. Some time ago, EMC introduced the concept [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualeverything.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12368548&amp;post=145&amp;subd=virtualeverything&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SSDs, TRIM and performance drop offs in the real world</title>
		<link>http://virtualeverything.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/ssds-trim-and-performance-drop-offs-in-the-real-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 05:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SSDs can dramatically increase the performance in personal computers. Roughly 9months I installed a Crucial 128GB SSD into my Macbook (Model: CT128M225). It made an enormous difference with my user experience as I generally tend to run a lot of applications, VMs, etc on my laptop. The wait times for applications loading and disk I/O [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualeverything.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12368548&amp;post=126&amp;subd=virtualeverything&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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