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		<title>VMware vExpert 2012 &#8211; Thank you!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I noticed on Twitter yesterday that everyone was tweeting about the VMware vExpert recipients for 2012 were announced.  I went over to the VMware site to check it out (http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/2012/04/announcing-vexpert-2012-title-holders.html) and found out that I was selected again! I have to start by saying thank you to Alex Maier, John Troyer, and the VMware Community [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VMware vSphere and EMC Isilon &#8211; One datastore or many?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jase</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a vSpecialist, I am a member of a group that focuses on Big Data solutions. I primarily focus on Big Data storage, notably Isilon. I was introduced to Isilon early last year and really liked it. I got my first deep-dive with Isilon before EMC World 2011, where I was given the Isilon vLab, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VMware Update Manager Download Service on Windows 2008 R2 Core</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jase</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have to(?) access the Internet to download patches Using the default configuration of vSphere Update Manager, it must be able to connect to the Internet to download vSphere patches.  This configuration is not always possible, depending on network architecture, policies, security configuration, or other reasons.  Often times, simply using a proxy will accommodate the requirement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An exciting year&#8230; EMC, VMware, &amp; more</title>
		<link>http://www.jasemccarty.com/blog/?p=1822</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jase</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Storage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it has been a year since I joined the ranks of the EMC vSpecialist Team.  What a whirlwind year it has been. Slow start I started December out doing a lot of the training and processing that goes along with taking on a new job.  Within 3 weeks however, I joined Nick Weaver at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Cloud bursting,&#8221; streamlining, &amp; preparing for huge demand</title>
		<link>http://www.jasemccarty.com/blog/?p=1801</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jase</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Virtualization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Cloud bursting&#8221; is a new term that describes leveraging compute resources external to an organization, when the demand is greater than the organization has capacity for.  Basically it is a process that provides additional resources that an organization doesn&#8217;t typically pay full price for the additional resources initially, but pay based on a consumption model [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VMware View &#8211; Better service with less $upport cost$</title>
		<link>http://www.jasemccarty.com/blog/?p=1785</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jase</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little background I speak with customers all the time on various technologies.  One such technology that I speak about is virtual desktop technologies, architecture, sizing, and so on.  I don&#8217;t know if I can say that 2011 is the &#8220;Year of VDI&#8221;, but I can say I have spoken to quite a few customers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iomega Personal Cloud &#8211; Now in your pocket</title>
		<link>http://www.jasemccarty.com/blog/?p=1748</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jase</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my co-located vSphere lab, I have an Iomega IX4-200d Cloud Edition performing the role of shared storage. One of the great features of the Cloud Edition is that you can connect to it securely using the Iomega Storage Manager from a Windows, Mac, or Linux system. This makes it very easy to upload files, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EMC vSpecialist vLabs (&amp; more) &#8211; in Baton Rouge, LA</title>
		<link>http://www.jasemccarty.com/blog/?p=1723</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:35:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jase</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Storage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those that went to Las Vegas for either EMC World 2011 or VMworld 2011, there were opportunities to give EMC gear a test drive using the EMC vSpecialist vLabs. The Bigger Conferences Bigger conferences often last the better part of a week, and are most often far away from home, unless you work in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virtualization is (not) the problem &#8211; A real life debunking</title>
		<link>http://www.jasemccarty.com/blog/?p=1697</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 02:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jase</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Virtualization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing that is always true, as new technology comes along, some people are going to criticize, ridicule, or simply not believe it does what it says it does. Many years ago, I was approached by some guys in development that were having issues with an application that had a SQL database backend, this is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nested vSphere Lab in VMware Workstation &#8211; Faster/Affordable/Portable Storage Alternative</title>
		<link>http://www.jasemccarty.com/blog/?p=1684</link>
		<comments>http://www.jasemccarty.com/blog/?p=1684#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 16:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jase</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Storage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pre-lab days Before I had access to a lab, it was difficult to test nested vSphere configurations due the performance. With vSphere 4.1, I could run nested ESXi hosts on VMware Workstation, but there was always one bottleneck.  Much like many enterprise environments, I was constrained by my storage. Running VMware Workstation on top of [...]]]></description>
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