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		<title>Deduplication best practices webinar available for replay</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My recent webinar on deduplication best practices with Veeam is available for replay! I talk about job configuration, repository configuration and considerations for using deduplication appliances with Veeam Backup &#38; Replication. Check it out here: http://go.veeam.com/webinar-12202011-rick-vanover-deduplication-best-practices-using-veeam.html<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rickvanover.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10398824&amp;post=1621&amp;subd=rickvanover&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Easily deploy Hyper-V hosts on vSphere 5</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven’t seen Ricky El-Qasem’s recent blog post on how to deploy a nested Hyper-V host on ESXi 5 on the Veeam blog; you should check it out. It’s a good one if you want to dabble with Hyper-V yet don’t want to allocated dedicated hardware. There are a number of steps to deploy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rickvanover.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10398824&amp;post=1616&amp;subd=rickvanover&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A new era: Veeam Backup &amp; Replication</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WOW! What great stuff. Veeam Backup &#38; Replication version 6 is live. I’ve been working with betas of this for quite a while, and I’ve very excited for this release. There are plenty of resources to get started: - Webinar series - What’s new document - My blog of a list of the what’s new [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rickvanover.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10398824&amp;post=1610&amp;subd=rickvanover&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Windows Server 8 VHDX disk format supports up to 16 TB</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 02:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Windows Server 8 introduces a new virtual disk format, VHDX. VHDX is an expanded set of features from the traditional VHD file format used in Hyper-V and Xen virtualization environments. The other mainstream virtual disk file formats are VMDK for VMware and VDI for VirtualBox platforms. Read the entire post at TechRepublic.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rickvanover.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10398824&amp;post=1604&amp;subd=rickvanover&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Post: The New Virtual Reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently did a guest post at the HP TechBiz site. An excerpt of my post: Virtualization has taken on a number of different meanings over the years, but none more fitting than it becoming the default decision for today&#8217;s infrastructure decisions. This can be viewed in a number of different ways. Most notably, many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rickvanover.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10398824&amp;post=1601&amp;subd=rickvanover&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hyper-V Backups: First impressions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At work, I’m working on “STUFF” that includes a hypervisor-based backup and replication solution for Hyper-V VMs. It’s not much of a secret, but you can check out all of that info here: http://go.veeam.com/v6-backup-replication [v6 Preview Materials] I’ll admit it, coming at it from the VMware perspective required some rethinking. First of all, these backups [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rickvanover.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10398824&amp;post=1599&amp;subd=rickvanover&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Upgrading Free ESXi4 to ESXi5</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 02:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Upgrading from ESXi 4 to ESXi 5 can be challenging, especially if you&#8217;re using the free version of the hypervisor. That&#8217;s because for the free hypervisor, we don&#8217;t have the access to the more robust vSphere Update Manager (which makes upgrading very easy). There are a few options to upgrade a free ESXi 4 hypervisor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rickvanover.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10398824&amp;post=1596&amp;subd=rickvanover&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Windows Server 8 to offer DHCP Failover</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 02:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Love or hate Microsoft Windows DHCP, chances are there is some amount of it installed in effectively every modern data center. The nice integration with Windows DNS and Active Directory make it a safe bet for providing DHCP access for both clients and servers (that’s another discussion I’m starting soon; stay tuned). Click here to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rickvanover.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10398824&amp;post=1594&amp;subd=rickvanover&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Expert tips for moving vCenter database</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 02:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve all set up test vCenter installations and used the built-in Microsoft SQL Server Express engine. It is a great way to get up and running to test this or that feature of vCenter before trying it in production. For a production environment, I’ve always preferred to leverage a shared (or centralized) SQL Server to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rickvanover.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10398824&amp;post=1592&amp;subd=rickvanover&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What has changed in the Windows Server 8 Task Manager</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 02:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I never really want things to go wrong, I do want to be able to troubleshoot if needed. Probably the tool I use most commonly for that first step is Windows Task Manager. In Windows Server 8, a couple of new things are in place as well as a totally overhauled interface. If you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rickvanover.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10398824&amp;post=1590&amp;subd=rickvanover&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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