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	<description>With great virtualisation comes great responsibility!</description>
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		<title>Virtualisation; I don&#8217;t get it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems that in the local industry (Melbourne, Australia) that businesses just don&#8217;t get virtualisation.
At the cessation of another job, I am beginning to wonder if this virtualisation thing will ever catch on. Or maybe I&#8217;m too far ahead of the curve and waiting for it to catch up.
Let&#8217;s start with the benefits; 

no reliance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iSCSI vs. Fibre Channel storage performance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If we look at the way a virtual machine (and a physical machine, indirectly) runs, the most important resources are RAM and CPU. Disk storage is (sort of) secondary. The exception to this is streaming media or backup servers. Typically, performance difference is minimal.]]></description>
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		<title>iSCSI: Why a VMkernel and a Service Console?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Does Vmware have Microsoft Vista properties? You know, we&#8217;ll just chuck it in at the end and pray it works.
Frantic calls to and from on Saturday night lead myself and a friend to the question, &#8220;What the hell is up with iSCSI?&#8221;
It seems that the initiator works only with a service console. In fact, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://invurted.com/iscsi-why-a-vmkernel-and-a-service-console/</link>
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		<title>Vmware ESX3.5 Templates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Templates and their usage are one of the big time savers in ESX. The ability to setup a &#8220;perfect&#8221; vritual machine and then deploy multiple copies of it allows us to minimise the risk of deployment errors. However, there are a few limits around what can be achieved.
Specifically, in the environment I am in at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Minor Deviations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, more than once I have deviated madly off topic in this blog, but this one is special, I promise.
Everyone loves Calvin and Hobbes, don&#8217;t they? If you&#8217;re not familiar with it:
Calvin and Hobbes was a syndicated comic strip written and illustrated by Bill Watterson, following the humorous antics of Calvin, an imaginative six-year old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>vSphere multi-pathing failover</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whilst researching some storage options for a client, I stumbled across this pretty useful information
1) How often ESX checks for path failure?
==> As soon as an I/O request to a path fails, ESX will initiate a path failover. If there is no I/O outstanding to a path. ESX will probe each physical path every 5 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vmware File Manager</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a number of ways to upload and download files to and from the actual ESX server in my environment. The least favourite one I have would have to be browsing the datastore via VI Client!
This is the sort of problem that can happen, especially if you&#8217;re trying to download a file from a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://invurted.com/vmware-file-manager/</link>
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		<title>Distributed File Server (DFS) Reporting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Uncovering the secrets of automating DFS reporting]]></description>
		<link>http://invurted.com/distributed-file-server-dfs-reporting/</link>
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		<title>The HA &#8220;split brain&#8221; problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This ISN&#8217;T something that occurs frequently, but it is something that I would want to test in HA (High Availabilty) before I went to production!
Sometimes when you set the DAS Isolation addresses, it fails to work, ie. when you take vswif0 offline, the virtual machines get shutdown anyway. Given this is emulating an &#8220;isolation respone&#8221;, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://invurted.com/the-ha-split-brain-problem/</link>
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		<title>New Vmware Convertor 4.0.1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vmware Convertor allows us to P2V (Physical to Virtual) migrations. That is, taking (potentially) a running machine on my network and importing it directly into my virtual infrastructure.
So, whilst vSphere is the new kid on the block, Vmware have also released an updated version to this genuinely brilliant utility!
What’s New
The VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 4.0.1 [...]]]></description>
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