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		<title>Resolutions for a Life Well-Lived</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 01:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ran across these resolutions today by author and professor Clyde Kilby.  Great resolutions for sanity and a life well-lived.  &#160; 1. At least once every day I shall look steadily up at the sky and remember that I, a consciousness with a conscience, am on a planet traveling in space with wonderfully mysterious things [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vblog.matt-taylor.org&amp;blog=12165766&amp;post=160&amp;subd=virtualmt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Modifying VMware Multipathing Policies with EMC&#8217;s VSI Path Management Plugin</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a handy tool for setting and modifying multipathing policies in VMware when using EMC backend storage.  It supports CLARiiON, VNX, Symm, and VPLEX devices. It also supports both PowerPath and NMP.  The plugin is free to EMC customers with a PowerLink account.  To download, login to PowerLink and navigate to: Home &#62; Support &#62; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vblog.matt-taylor.org&amp;blog=12165766&amp;post=153&amp;subd=virtualmt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recommended Cache Settings for VNX</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 20:46:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I know there has been some discussion around what cache values to use for new VNX arrays.  I stumbled upon a nice EMC primus article (emc267304) the other day which does a good job addressing these questions. The most helpful thing to remember, in my opinion, is to allocate 10 percent of the cache to read and allocate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vblog.matt-taylor.org&amp;blog=12165766&amp;post=150&amp;subd=virtualmt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RecoverPoint Fake Volume Size Error</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: It does appear that 3.3SP1 and newer versions of RecoverPoint support larger replica volumes using the CX splitter, however FLARE 30 or above is required.  If using any FLARE code prior to 30 then source and target volumes must be identical regardless of the RecoverPoint version. I&#8217;ve ran into this a couple of times [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vblog.matt-taylor.org&amp;blog=12165766&amp;post=144&amp;subd=virtualmt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Simple Look at Parity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 20:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Data is important and so is processing and protecting that data efficiently.  Almost everyone in the storage world today depends on a simple, yet ingenious method of protecting their data without having to fully duplicate it.  We are able to do this through the use of parity.  A lot of us take parity for granted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vblog.matt-taylor.org&amp;blog=12165766&amp;post=137&amp;subd=virtualmt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Staying Focused and Staying Involved</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 21:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Spring time again, well actually, it&#8217;s almost Summer.  Crazy to think how the seasons start to blur together the more we have on our plate.  Warm weather has always been a distraction for me and I struggle every year to stay focused on nice sunny days.  This year is no ordinary year, however.  My [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vblog.matt-taylor.org&amp;blog=12165766&amp;post=133&amp;subd=virtualmt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EMC Failback Plugin for Celerra Replicator</title>
		<link>http://vblog.matt-taylor.org/2011/02/28/emc-failback-plugin-for-celerra-replicator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 02:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the pains around VMware SRM that has existed for quite a while now is the lack of failback functionality.  SRM does a great job of failing us over to another site in an automated fashion.  But what happens after disaster is over?  What if you were just testing your DR facility and now [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vblog.matt-taylor.org&amp;blog=12165766&amp;post=128&amp;subd=virtualmt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Configure SRM 4 with SQL Express 2005</title>
		<link>http://vblog.matt-taylor.org/2011/02/23/configure-srm-4-with-sql-express-2005/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this document very useful when setting up SRM 4 in the lab recently.  The part that really caught my attention was that the sql account needs to have at least &#8220;bulkadmin&#8221; privileges.  Of course, &#8220;sysadmin&#8221; will work as well.  http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-11547<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vblog.matt-taylor.org&amp;blog=12165766&amp;post=124&amp;subd=virtualmt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are You A Risk Taker?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 22:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you a risk taker? How often do you take risks?  In the IT world and the highly sought after &#8220;0 downtime environment&#8221;, risk taking is often discouraged.  This is understandable to a degree but are there areas where we can take reasonable risks in order to further our productivity?  I believe so and I&#8217;ll [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vblog.matt-taylor.org&amp;blog=12165766&amp;post=116&amp;subd=virtualmt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Problem with Success</title>
		<link>http://vblog.matt-taylor.org/2011/02/03/the-problem-with-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I can see myself already starting to lose credibility with many readers just as they read the title of this post.  I can hear many ask, &#8220;What&#8217;s wrong with being successful, isn&#8217;t that The American Dream&#8221;?  I want to make to make it clear up front that I&#8217;m not implying success in and of itself [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vblog.matt-taylor.org&amp;blog=12165766&amp;post=111&amp;subd=virtualmt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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