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I just realized I had an issue with the blog. WOW, here I was thinking everything was fine and dandy. Well, it’s fixed now. I’m embarking on an interesting project using Oracle VM and NetApp. I’m planning to document it on this blog. Hopefully I’ll have time!

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How does your datacenter storage look? We created a “storage asile”. There are 20 racks that we thought would be plenty during the datacenter build (approx 2 months ago). Now, there’s only a few racks left as we’re installing another new NetApp 6080. Here’s some pics:

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I found this interesting forum post on the msft forums. This code will help you change all your sites to require secure key exchange. here’s the post: http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2796017&SiteID=17

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Here’s some pictures of a new datacenter I helped design. In future posts I’ll show a before and after!    

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I found this interesting site the other day. It is quite interesting the differences people use to design their networks (and diagrams). http://www.ratemynetworkdiagram.com

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It really sucks when thefts occur at home. I was recently robbed, he broke in through a window that was at the roof line and jumped down about 15 feet into my condo. Then, proceeded to take a bunch of my stuff and walk out the front door. He got away with my brand new PS3, […]

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I had some fun at work today and created a 100TB volume for a project. NetApp’s OnTap GX operating system is quite nice and I can’t wait for the release that combines 7G and GX together. Here’s some fun screenshots.

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Microsoft Operations Manager—MOM Microsoft System Center Capacity Planner—SCCP Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager—ConfigMgr Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager—SCDPM Microsoft System Center Essentials—SCE Microsoft System Center Operations Manager—OpsMgr Microsoft System Center Reporting Manager—SCRM Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager—SCVMM Microsoft Systems Management Server—SMS

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My first post using Windows Live Writer. This seems like it will be quite a nice application for publishing entries. I’m hoping that this will be useful. I especially like the spell check and the WYSIWYG interface where your typing looks like your blog. I also updated some other pages (such as the “about” page) […]

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