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		<title>Recoverpoint 4.0 design considerations with vRPA (virtual RPA)</title>
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		<comments>http://vjswami.com/2013/05/23/recoverpoint-4-0-design-considerations-with-vrpa-virtual-rpa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 23:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay Swami</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[EMC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[storage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With the release of Recoverpoint 4.0, one of the most popular enhancements is the option to deploy the solution using virtual RPAs. Previous to Recoverpoint 4.0, the only option was to use physical appliances. We are now able to run the RPAs as VMs inside ESX and forgo the need for physical appliances. The vRPAs [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vjswami.com&#038;blog=12368548&#038;post=615&#038;subd=virtualeverything&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The details behind VMAX Cloud Edition</title>
		<link>http://vjswami.com/2013/02/27/the-details-behind-vmax-cloud-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 03:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay Swami</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[EMC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[storage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VMAX]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Anytime there is a product with the name &#8220;cloud&#8221; it tends to stir up a lot of interest from customers &#38; peers. On one end of the spectrum you have vendors that simply take existing products and rebrand them as &#8220;cloud&#8221; versions while others that actually make something worthy of the name &#8220;cloud&#8221;. I believe [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vjswami.com&#038;blog=12368548&#038;post=600&#038;subd=virtualeverything&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is vSphere Data Protection the same thing as Avamar?</title>
		<link>http://vjswami.com/2013/02/21/is-vsphere-data-protection-the-same-thing-as-avamar/</link>
		<comments>http://vjswami.com/2013/02/21/is-vsphere-data-protection-the-same-thing-as-avamar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 05:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay Swami</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[backup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EMC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virtualization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vmware]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the common conversations in my customer base and among SE peers is around vSphere Data Protection and how it compares to Avamar. It is no secret that the latest incarnation of VDP and VDP Advanced have Avamar technology under the covers: in-line deduplication, variable length block &#38; segment size, leveraging VADP and CBT, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vjswami.com&#038;blog=12368548&#038;post=572&#038;subd=virtualeverything&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New (virtual) home for the blog</title>
		<link>http://vjswami.com/2013/02/16/new-virtual-home-for-the-blog/</link>
		<comments>http://vjswami.com/2013/02/16/new-virtual-home-for-the-blog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 02:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay Swami</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[misc]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As you may have noticed, I have made couple of small changes. Namely, the address for this blog is now http://vjswami.com instead of the old wordpress.com address. And secondly, I have changed my twitter handle to @vjswami. Nothing else is changing in terms of content, etc. I&#8217;m working on some articles based on some recent [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vjswami.com&#038;blog=12368548&#038;post=561&#038;subd=virtualeverything&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A study in VMAX &amp; VNX auto-tiering</title>
		<link>http://vjswami.com/2012/12/17/a-study-in-vmax-vnx-auto-tiering/</link>
		<comments>http://vjswami.com/2012/12/17/a-study-in-vmax-vnx-auto-tiering/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay Swami</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[EMC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[storage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VMAX]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the major differences between a VMAX and VNX are the pooling &#38; FAST-VP (auto-tiering SW) implementations. As more and more VNX customers are considering VMAX systems (thanks largely to the introduction of the VMAXe/VMAX10K price point) these differences are often a topic of conversation. There are some noticeable differences in the theory &#38; [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vjswami.com&#038;blog=12368548&#038;post=480&#038;subd=virtualeverything&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WTF (What The FEX) are you talking about?</title>
		<link>http://vjswami.com/2011/11/10/wtf-what-the-fex-are-you-talking-about/</link>
		<comments>http://vjswami.com/2011/11/10/wtf-what-the-fex-are-you-talking-about/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 05:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay Swami</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cisco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FEX]]></category>

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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 [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vjswami.com&#038;blog=12368548&#038;post=445&#038;subd=virtualeverything&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Peeling back the onion on HP-FEX</title>
		<link>http://vjswami.com/2011/10/24/peeling-back-the-onion-on-hp-fex/</link>
		<comments>http://vjswami.com/2011/10/24/peeling-back-the-onion-on-hp-fex/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 21:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay Swami</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FEX]]></category>
		<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 [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vjswami.com&#038;blog=12368548&#038;post=424&#038;subd=virtualeverything&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting the VMware VSA running in a nested ESXi environment</title>
		<link>http://vjswami.com/2011/08/17/getting-the-vmware-vsa-running-in-a-nested-esxi-environment/</link>
		<comments>http://vjswami.com/2011/08/17/getting-the-vmware-vsa-running-in-a-nested-esxi-environment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 04:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay Swami</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[storage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[storage virtualization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vmware]]></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 [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vjswami.com&#038;blog=12368548&#038;post=384&#038;subd=virtualeverything&#038;ref=&#038;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://vjswami.com/2011/08/15/a-closer-look-at-vmwares-virtual-storage-appliance-1-0-vsa-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://vjswami.com/2011/08/15/a-closer-look-at-vmwares-virtual-storage-appliance-1-0-vsa-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 06:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay Swami</dc:creator>
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		<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 [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vjswami.com&#038;blog=12368548&#038;post=373&#038;subd=virtualeverything&#038;ref=&#038;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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 04:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay Swami</dc:creator>
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		<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; [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vjswami.com&#038;blog=12368548&#038;post=340&#038;subd=virtualeverything&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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