(6608,2,'2012-05-16 17:00:24','2012-05-16 17:00:24','<em><strong>Unifying VDI and Unified Communications for your Organization</strong></em>\r\n\r\nJoin eGroup &amp; Katalyst Network Group throughout the Carolinas for our multi-city Cisco VXI/Post Citrix Synergy Road Show!\r\n\r\nYou will have the opportunity to participate in a \"hands-on\" demonstration and learn firsthand all of the exciting announcements made during Citrix\'s Synergy Conference and Cisco\'s Partner Summit.\r\n\r\nYou will also have the opportunity to experience Cisco\'s Virtualization Experience Infrastructure (VXI). VXI is an end-to-end systems approach powered by XenDesktop that delivers the next generation virtual workspace by unifying virtual desktops, voice, and video.\r\n\r\nLearn how local companies eGroup and Katalyst work together to enable your organization to deliver true workforce mobility.\r\n\r\nEach event includes a beer tasting, appetizers and giveaways!  Click on a city below to register:\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001NeA4bqurKwFG_JD6mjI5iB9T6AitMJYUTpT_AFEAdIPEF9vDmuT3x8FKl_fTOkAkrkG3SC6_vKT4RAJuc977z6R7T_wnIiWbZrGYZJkA9lJX9Vw5mE2HMg==\" target=\"_blank\">6.4  Raleigh, NC</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001NeA4bqurKwFG_JD6mjI5iB9T6AitMJYUTpT_AFEAdIPEF9vDmuT3x8FKl_fTOkAkJ1a9ye9GNMdRlAsQAnfEA6KU2wQ7LUkdJcPht_a5Xg6WmOoQRTpunQ==\" target=\"_blank\">6.5  Charlotte, NC</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001NeA4bqurKwFG_JD6mjI5iB9T6AitMJYUTpT_AFEAdIPEF9vDmuT3x8FKl_fTOkAkh-ZGihUGlwjVERvVbIQx2lmiF0hyFhazZyOO2Og_0iLydxIpV5Yecy4tw9JRm3G6\" 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17:00:24','',6603,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6603-revision-3',0,'revision','',0),(6613,8,'2012-05-17 05:19:04','2012-05-17 05:19:04','eGroup had the benefit of working with the upcoming VMware ThinApp AppFactory appliance over the last several weeks and walked away impressed.  The latest tool in Application Virtualization slated to be released in the coming months is a game changer for the Application Virtualization and Delivery arena.  eGroup kicked off the #CVMUG12 Hands On labs with standing room only in the back of the room for the hands on AppFactory packaging session and technical walk through.  Myself (@JasonBWebster) alongside Ian Jones (eGroup Senior Application Services Engineer) and Dean \"Keeper of the Dark Arts\" Flaming (VMware ThinApp GURU) the crowd was not disappointed, approximately 45 ThinApps captured built and deployed to VMware View 5.1 desktops in about 15 minutes.\n\nBy introducing concepts such as Workflow, WorkPools, Feeds, Shares, Recipes and the ThinApp Store VMware has managed to simplify the application virtualization process by providing more consistency in the ThinApp base image, repeatable and automated tasks with workflows and recipes, and streamlined end user consumption with the ThinApp Store and Horizon App Manager integration.  In short, the application virtualization community not only has a way to share the best practices way of packaging and app via recipes, they can serve it right into your ThinApp factory appliance (installer and all) via a AppFactory feed.\n\nLets hit the high points:\n\n<strong>Workflow:</strong>  ThinApp AppFactory introduces the concept of workflow into the packaging process.  By breaking down the tasks of pristine image/machine creation, precapture, install, postcapture, prebuild, build and deploy.  The user has the ability to create a repeatable process and scale it to multiple instances.\n\n<strong>WorkPools:</strong>  ThinApp AppFactory introduces the WorkPool concept to Application Virtualization.  Notice the word \"Pool\", this is similar to desktop pools in VMware View although now we are talking about the packaging virtual machine or machines.  A WorkPool can be created in the AppFactory appliance web admin by one of two methods.\n\nMethod 1:  Selecting and existing VM and snapshot to create the base image from.  Method 2:  Selecting an Windows Operating System ISO from a datastore.\n\nMethod 2:  My favorite, immediately upon selecting the ISO and providing AppFactory with a VL or MAK/KMS license key the appliance goes to work creating a pristine virtual machine for the capture environment.\n\nAlso in the WorkPool settings, you can specify the maximum number of packaging instances to create at any single time.  These packaging instances are Linked Clones off the base image and provision on demand.  Once provisioned, they stay in a powered off state awaiting queued ThinApp packaging jobs.\n\n<strong>Recipes:  </strong>ThinApp AppFactory Recipes are flat files that allow the packager to insert scripted and manual steps into the various phases of the packaging process.  For custom in-house applications, this allows application teams to specify all the dependencies, locations and any other application specific requirements for a given application.  Recipes will promote consistency and reliability of ThinApp Applications from environment to environment.  Application Packagers will no longer have to wade through all the community and blog posts on \"How to Virtualize X Application on Windows 7\" and follow it step by step.  They can simply grab the recipe, plug it into the application by selecting it at capture time and the resulting ThinApp is produced on the other side.\n\n<strong>Feeds:  </strong>ThinApp AppFactory feeds are JSON formatted web based locations in which the content of the feed specifies the available applications, icons, installation commands, AppFactory Recipes, etc... for packaging an application.  The result, the packager 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This release contains product enhancements such as support of Citrix XenDesktop 5.5/5.6, Citrix XenApp 6.5 and more…<!--more-->\r\n\r\n• Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 Support: OneSign now supports Internet Explorer 9. All natively-learned web applications will continue to work as they did in previous OneSign versions. Shift- or GDI learned web applications will have to be relearned for SSO to work in IE9. Learn more about IE 9 support during the upcoming partner training session.\r\n\r\n• OneSign Connector for Epic 3.5: The OneSign Connector for Epic, in conjunction with the OneSign 4.6 SP1 agent, has been enhanced to minimize Windows memory and CPU utilization when Epic and OneSign are running in a Citrix XenApp environment.\r\n\r\n• Single Card Tap User Switch: On a shared kiosk workstation, a different user can log in over another user’s open OneSign session with a single tap of their proximity card, instead of having to tap twice.\r\n\r\n• Enhanced Active Directory Synchronization: The directory synchronization and group membership reconciliation times are much faster and more efficient, particularly when synchronizing with a very large number of directory users and/or groups. Additionally, a synchronization progress indicator has been added in the OneSign Administration console during a manual directory sync.\r\n\r\n• Support for Allscripts/Eclipsys Sunrise Clinical Manager v5.5: OneSign now provides native SSO into Allscripts/Eclipsys Sunrise Clinical Manager version 5.5 and above, in addition to earlier versions of Sunrise Clinical Manager.','ANNOUNCING GENERAL AVAILABILITY OF IMPRIVATA\'S OneSign 4.6 SP1','','publish','open','open','','announcing-general-availability-of-imprivatas-onesign-4-6-sp1','','','2012-05-22 16:07:36','2012-05-22 16:07:36','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=6621',0,'post','',0),(6622,2,'2012-05-22 12:38:24','2012-05-22 12:38:24','Imprivata is pleased to announce general availability of OneSign 4.6 SP1! This release contains product enhancements such as support of Citrix XenDesktop 5.5/5.6, Citrix XenApp 6.5 and more…\n\n• Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 Support: OneSign now supports Internet Explorer 9. 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Additionally, a synchronization progress indicator has been added in the OneSign Administration console during a manual directory sync.\r\n\r\n• Support for Allscripts/Eclipsys Sunrise Clinical Manager v5.5: OneSign now provides native SSO into Allscripts/Eclipsys Sunrise Clinical Manager version 5.5 and above, in addition to earlier versions of Sunrise Clinical Manager.','ANNOUNCING GENERAL AVAILABILITY OF IMPRIVATA\'S OneSign 4.6 SP1','','inherit','open','open','','6621-revision-2','','','2012-05-22 12:38:27','2012-05-22 12:38:27','',6621,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6621-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(6624,2,'2012-05-22 12:38:42','2012-05-22 12:38:42','Imprivata is pleased to announce general availability of OneSign 4.6 SP1! This release contains product enhancements such as support of Citrix XenDesktop 5.5/5.6, Citrix XenApp 6.5 and more…\r\n\r\n• Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 Support: OneSign now supports Internet Explorer 9. All natively-learned web applications will continue to work as they did in previous OneSign versions. Shift- or GDI learned web applications will have to be relearned for SSO to work in IE9. Learn more about IE 9 support during the upcoming partner training session.\r\n\r\n• OneSign Connector for Epic 3.5: The OneSign Connector for Epic, in conjunction with the OneSign 4.6 SP1 agent, has been enhanced to minimize Windows memory and CPU utilization when Epic and OneSign are running in a Citrix XenApp environment.\r\n\r\n• Single Card Tap User Switch: On a shared kiosk workstation, a different user can log in over another user’s open OneSign session with a single tap of their proximity card, instead of having to tap twice.\r\n\r\n• Enhanced Active Directory Synchronization: The directory synchronization and group membership reconciliation times are much faster and more efficient, particularly when synchronizing with a very large number of directory users and/or groups. Additionally, a synchronization progress indicator has been added in the OneSign Administration console during a manual directory sync.\r\n\r\n• Support for Allscripts/Eclipsys Sunrise Clinical Manager v5.5: OneSign now provides native SSO into Allscripts/Eclipsys Sunrise Clinical Manager version 5.5 and above, in addition to earlier versions of Sunrise Clinical Manager.','ANNOUNCING GENERAL AVAILABILITY OF IMPRIVATA\'S OneSign 4.6 SP1','','inherit','open','open','','6621-revision-3','','','2012-05-22 12:38:42','2012-05-22 12:38:42','',6621,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6621-revision-3',0,'revision','',0),(6625,2,'2012-05-22 12:39:08','2012-05-22 12:39:08','Imprivata is pleased to announce general availability of OneSign 4.6 SP1! This release contains product enhancements such as support of Citrix XenDesktop 5.5/5.6, Citrix XenApp 6.5 and more…\r\n\r\n• Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 Support: OneSign now supports Internet Explorer 9. All natively-learned web applications will continue to work as they did in previous OneSign versions. Shift- or GDI learned web applications will have to be relearned for SSO to work in IE9. Learn more about IE 9 support during the upcoming partner training session.\r\n\r\n• OneSign Connector for Epic 3.5: The OneSign Connector for Epic, in conjunction with the OneSign 4.6 SP1 agent, has been enhanced to minimize Windows memory and CPU utilization when Epic and OneSign are running in a Citrix XenApp environment.\r\n\r\n• Single Card Tap User Switch: On a shared kiosk workstation, a different user can log in over another user’s open OneSign session with a single tap of their proximity card, instead of having to tap twice.\r\n\r\n• Enhanced Active Directory Synchronization: The directory synchronization and group membership reconciliation times are much faster and more efficient, particularly when synchronizing with a very large number of directory users and/or groups. Additionally, a synchronization progress indicator has been added in the OneSign Administration console during a manual directory sync.\r\n\r\n• Support for Allscripts/Eclipsys Sunrise Clinical Manager v5.5: OneSign now provides native SSO into Allscripts/Eclipsys Sunrise Clinical Manager version 5.5 and above, in addition to earlier versions of Sunrise Clinical Manager.','ANNOUNCING GENERAL AVAILABILITY OF IMPRIVATA\'S OneSign 4.6 SP1','','inherit','open','open','','6621-revision-4','','','2012-05-22 12:39:08','2012-05-22 12:39:08','',6621,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6621-revision-4',0,'revision','',0),(6626,2,'2012-05-22 14:12:58','2012-05-22 14:12:58','<em>eGroup, Inc. is among the first of partners in the southeast to become certified as part of EMC\'s virtualization and cloud initiative, and f</em><em>irst to offer customers complete spectrum of choice when moving to cloud computing.</em>\r\n\r\nMay 22, 2012 - Mt. Pleasant, SC - eGroup, Inc. today announced its EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure certification.  EMC\'s VSPEX Proven Infrastructure is a simple, efficient, and flexible reference architecture comprised of EMC’s award-winning storage systems and next-generation backup products, along with best-of-breed virtualization, server, and network technology from EMC alliance partners Brocade, Cisco, Citrix, Intel, Microsoft, and VMware.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe fourteen initial VSPEX configurations represent the most popular use cases for customers moving to cloud computing. These use cases are focused on enabling customers to accelerate deployment of private cloud and end user computing environments. For private cloud deployments customers have the option of running VMware vSphere 5.0 or Microsoft Windows Hyper-V from 50-250 virtual machines and for end-user computing deployments customers can choose between VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop® from 50 to 2000 virtual desktops. Full details are available on emc.com. Additional VSPEX configurations will be made available based on partner demand.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Proven Infrastructure is now available to partners in the EMC Velocity™ partner program. For the first time partners can fully leverage the EMC brand and industrial design in delivering VSPEX solutions to their customers. In addition EMC is providing VSPEX labs for partners to test, validate and demonstrate new VSPEX solutions.\r\n\r\n\"EMC VSPEX will enable eGroup to provide our customers with complete solutions that accelerate the deployment of virtualization and cloud offerings for small-to-medium businesses as well as the mid-enterprise market\", commented Mike Stokes, Director of Sales, eGroup.\r\n\r\n<strong>EMC VSPEX Customer Benefits</strong>\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Simple – VSPEX Proven Infrastructures deliver predictable performance that significantly reduces the planning, sizing and configuration burdens of adopting private cloud or end-user computing environments. In addition, EMC\'s validation of the VSPEX configuration greatly reduces deployment time. Finally, tight alignment with Windows Server Hyper-V and VMware vSphere cloud infrastructure provide customers a single point of management using System Center for Microsoft cloud and VMware vCenter™ Operations Management Suite for private cloud deployments.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Efficient – Built on EMC\'s award-winning VNX™ and VNXe™ unified storage systems and Avamar® and Data Domain® next-generation backup products, VSPEX provides customers with unmatched levels of efficiency. Leveraging technologies such as data deduplication, compression and Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST), customers can expect to significantly lower operational costs. By integrating these technologies tightly with the hypervisor and end-user computing environments, customers can also benefit from simpler administration and lower management costs.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Flexible – VSPEX allows customers to combine their choice of industry-leading server, network, and virtualization technologies into a proven infrastructure validated by EMC and built on a highly flexible EMC storage and backup infrastructure. Additionally, the customer\'s channel partner of choice – who understands the specific customer\'s requirements – can customize VSPEX to meet their needs.\r\n\r\nSince 1999, eGroup has provided innovative technology solutions to businesses across the Southeast. In addition to cloud services, eGroup focuses on application services and end-user computing. Contact eGroup at <a href=\"mailto:info@eGroup-us.com\">info@eGroup-us.com</a> or visit <a href=\"http://www.myecloud.com\">www.myecloud.com</a> or <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com\">www.egroup-us.com</a> for more information.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;\">           </span></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','eGROUP AMONG FIRST PARTNERS IN SOUTHEAST TO ACHIEVE EMC VSPEX PROVEN INFRASTRUCTURE CERTIFICATION','','publish','open','open','','egroup-first-carolinas-partner-to-achieve-emc-vspex-proven-infrastructure-certification','','','2012-05-24 12:27:01','2012-05-24 12:27:01','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=6626',0,'post','',0),(6725,2,'2012-05-29 19:11:49','0000-00-00 00:00:00','What’s New – Reporting back from Citrix Synergy:\n\n• Vision of Citrix and the strategy to execute – Any Device, Any Cloud\n\n• VDI-in-a-Box – Updates and coming enhancements and also announced at Synergy, a license upgrade path to the full XenDesktop for customers wanting a full end-to-end enterprise solution\n\n• Flexcast – RemotePC to grow your virtual desktop initiative in a fraction of the time, taking business as usual and immediately adding Citrix-level flexibility for your workers\n\n• Cisco – 5 year strategic alliance - Clear roadmap to a Unified Workspace that brings together the entire workforce across physical and virtual boundaries\n\n• AppDNA – Analyze your applications and understand what may be preventing them from running on the newer Windows Operating Systems\n\n• ShareFile StorageZones – Share and access your data from anywhere, on nearly any device—and announced at Citrix Synergy, you can choose from various StorageZones to protect your data across the continent, world, or even keep the data in your local data center\n\n• CloudGateway – An aggregation and orchestration layer for applications and services for your end users. Windows applications, Windows Desktops, Software-as-a-Service applications, Mobile applications, and Data\n\n• HDX Ready System-on-a-Chip – Driving the cost of Thin Clients down to sub-$100, around $125 already today\n\n• NetScaler – Version 10 is a milestone release that moves the Internet’s #1 Delivery System to one of the most Advanced Cloud Network Platform available\n\n• Project Avalon – The vision of the future of the Citrix solutions\n\nA Closer Look:\n\n• VDI-in-a-Box – Understand the architectural difference compared to traditional VDI deployments, and how this simple solution solves a complex and often costly virtual desktop issue. 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Pleasant, SC - eGroup, Inc. today announced its EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure certification.  EMC\'s VSPEX Proven Infrastructure is a simple, efficient, and flexible reference architecture comprised of EMC’s award-winning storage systems and next-generation backup products, along with best-of-breed virtualization, server, and network technology from EMC alliance partners Brocade, Cisco, Citrix, Intel, Microsoft, and VMware.<!--more-->\n\nThe fourteen initial VSPEX configurations represent the most popular use cases for customers moving to cloud computing. These use cases are focused on enabling customers to accelerate deployment of private cloud and end user computing environments. For private cloud deployments customers have the option of running VMware vSphere 5.0 or Microsoft Windows Hyper-V from 50-250 virtual machines and for end-user computing deployments customers can choose between VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop® from 50 to 2000 virtual desktops. Full details are available on emc.com. Additional VSPEX configurations will be made available based on partner demand.\n\nVSPEX Proven Infrastructure is now available to partners in the EMC Velocity™ partner program. For the first time partners can fully leverage the EMC brand and industrial design in delivering VSPEX solutions to their customers. In addition EMC is providing VSPEX labs for partners to test, validate and demonstrate new VSPEX solutions.\n\n<strong>EMC VSPEX Customer Benefits</strong>\n\nVSPEX Is Simple – VSPEX Proven Infrastructures deliver predictable performance that significantly reduces the planning, sizing and configuration burdens of adopting private cloud or end-user computing environments. In addition, EMC\'s validation of the VSPEX configuration greatly reduces deployment time. Finally, tight alignment with Windows Server Hyper-V and VMware vSphere cloud infrastructure provide customers a single point of management using System Center for Microsoft cloud and VMware vCenter™ Operations Management Suite for private cloud deployments.\n\nVSPEX Is Efficient – Built on EMC\'s award-winning VNX™ and VNXe™ unified storage systems and Avamar® and Data Domain® next-generation backup products, VSPEX provides customers with unmatched levels of efficiency. Leveraging technologies such as data deduplication, compression and Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST), customers can expect to significantly lower operational costs. 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Additionally, the customer\'s channel partner of choice – who understands the specific customer\'s requirements – can customize VSPEX to meet their needs.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em><span style=\"color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;\">           </span></em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','eGROUP FIRST CAROLINAS PARTNER TO ACHIEVE EMC VSPEX PROVEN INFRASTRUCTURE CERTIFICATION','','inherit','open','open','','6626-revision','','','2012-05-22 14:12:41','2012-05-22 14:12:41','',6626,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6626-revision',0,'revision','',0),(6629,2,'2012-05-22 14:21:30','2012-05-22 14:21:30','<em>eGroup, Inc. is among the first of partners in Carolinas to become certified as part of EMC\'s virtualization and cloud initiative, and f</em><em>irst to offer customers complete spectrum of choice when moving to cloud computing.</em>\n\nMay 22, 2012 - Mt. Pleasant, SC - eGroup, Inc. today announced its EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure certification.  EMC\'s VSPEX Proven Infrastructure is a simple, efficient, and flexible reference architecture comprised of EMC’s award-winning storage systems and next-generation backup products, along with best-of-breed virtualization, server, and network technology from EMC alliance partners Brocade, Cisco, Citrix, Intel, Microsoft, and VMware.<!--more-->\n\nThe fourteen initial VSPEX configurations represent the most popular use cases for customers moving to cloud computing. These use cases are focused on enabling customers to accelerate deployment of private cloud and end user computing environments. For private cloud deployments customers have the option of running VMware vSphere 5.0 or Microsoft Windows Hyper-V from 50-250 virtual machines and for end-user computing deployments customers can choose between VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop® from 50 to 2000 virtual desktops. Full details are available on emc.com. Additional VSPEX configurations will be made available based on partner demand.\n\nVSPEX Proven Infrastructure is now available to partners in the EMC Velocity™ partner program. For the first time partners can fully leverage the EMC brand and industrial design in delivering VSPEX solutions to their customers. In addition EMC is providing VSPEX labs for partners to test, validate and demonstrate new VSPEX solutions.\n\n\"EMC VSPEX will enable eGroup to provide our customers with complete solutions that accelerate the deployment of virtualization and cloud offerings for small-to-medium businesses as well as the mid-enterprise market\", commented Mike Stokes, Director of Sales, eGroup.\n\n<strong>EMC VSPEX Customer Benefits</strong>\n\nVSPEX Is Simple – VSPEX Proven Infrastructures deliver predictable performance that significantly reduces the planning, sizing and configuration burdens of adopting private cloud or end-user computing environments. In addition, EMC\'s validation of the VSPEX configuration greatly reduces deployment time. Finally, tight alignment with Windows Server Hyper-V and VMware vSphere cloud infrastructure provide customers a single point of management using System Center for Microsoft cloud and VMware vCenter™ Operations Management Suite for private cloud deployments.\n\nVSPEX Is Efficient – Built on EMC\'s award-winning VNX™ and VNXe™ unified storage systems and Avamar® and Data Domain® next-generation backup products, VSPEX provides customers with unmatched levels of efficiency. Leveraging technologies such as data deduplication, compression and Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST), customers can expect to significantly lower operational costs. By integrating these technologies tightly with the hypervisor and end-user computing environments, customers can also benefit from simpler administration and lower management costs.\n\nVSPEX Is Flexible – VSPEX allows customers to combine their choice of industry-leading server, network, and virtualization technologies into a proven infrastructure validated by EMC and built on a highly flexible EMC storage and backup infrastructure. Additionally, the customer\'s channel partner of choice – who understands the specific customer\'s requirements – can customize VSPEX to meet their needs.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em><span style=\"color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;\">           </span></em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','eGROUP AMONG FIRST PARTNERS IN CAROLINAS TO ACHIEVE EMC VSPEX PROVEN INFRASTRUCTURE CERTIFICATION','','inherit','open','open','','6626-autosave','','','2012-05-22 14:21:30','2012-05-22 14:21:30','',6626,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6626-autosave',0,'revision','',0),(6630,2,'2012-05-22 14:12:58','2012-05-22 14:12:58','<em>eGroup, Inc. first Carolinas partner to become certified as part of EMC\'s virtualization and cloud initiative, and f</em><em>irst to offer customers complete spectrum of choice when moving to cloud computing.</em>\r\n\r\nMay 22, 2012 - Mt. Pleasant, SC - eGroup, Inc. today announced its EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure certification.  EMC\'s VSPEX Proven Infrastructure is a simple, efficient, and flexible reference architecture comprised of EMC’s award-winning storage systems and next-generation backup products, along with best-of-breed virtualization, server, and network technology from EMC alliance partners Brocade, Cisco, Citrix, Intel, Microsoft, and VMware.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe fourteen initial VSPEX configurations represent the most popular use cases for customers moving to cloud computing. These use cases are focused on enabling customers to accelerate deployment of private cloud and end user computing environments. For private cloud deployments customers have the option of running VMware vSphere 5.0 or Microsoft Windows Hyper-V from 50-250 virtual machines and for end-user computing deployments customers can choose between VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop® from 50 to 2000 virtual desktops. Full details are available on emc.com. Additional VSPEX configurations will be made available based on partner demand.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Proven Infrastructure is now available to partners in the EMC Velocity™ partner program. For the first time partners can fully leverage the EMC brand and industrial design in delivering VSPEX solutions to their customers. In addition EMC is providing VSPEX labs for partners to test, validate and demonstrate new VSPEX solutions.\r\n\r\n<strong>EMC VSPEX Customer Benefits</strong>\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Simple – VSPEX Proven Infrastructures deliver predictable performance that significantly reduces the planning, sizing and configuration burdens of adopting private cloud or end-user computing environments. In addition, EMC\'s validation of the VSPEX configuration greatly reduces deployment time. Finally, tight alignment with Windows Server Hyper-V and VMware vSphere cloud infrastructure provide customers a single point of management using System Center for Microsoft cloud and VMware vCenter™ Operations Management Suite for private cloud deployments.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Efficient – Built on EMC\'s award-winning VNX™ and VNXe™ unified storage systems and Avamar® and Data Domain® next-generation backup products, VSPEX provides customers with unmatched levels of efficiency. Leveraging technologies such as data deduplication, compression and Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST), customers can expect to significantly lower operational costs. By integrating these technologies tightly with the hypervisor and end-user computing environments, customers can also benefit from simpler administration and lower management costs.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Flexible – VSPEX allows customers to combine their choice of industry-leading server, network, and virtualization technologies into a proven infrastructure validated by EMC and built on a highly flexible EMC storage and backup infrastructure. Additionally, the customer\'s channel partner of choice – who understands the specific customer\'s requirements – can customize VSPEX to meet their needs.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;\">           </span></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','eGROUP FIRST CAROLINAS PARTNER TO ACHIEVE EMC VSPEX PROVEN INFRASTRUCTURE CERTIFICATION','','inherit','open','open','','6626-revision-2','','','2012-05-22 14:12:58','2012-05-22 14:12:58','',6626,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6626-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(6631,2,'2012-05-22 14:14:06','2012-05-22 14:14:06','<em>eGroup, Inc. first Carolinas partner to become certified as part of EMC\'s virtualization and cloud initiative, and f</em><em>irst to offer customers complete spectrum of choice when moving to cloud computing.</em>\r\n\r\nMay 22, 2012 - Mt. Pleasant, SC - eGroup, Inc. today announced its EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure certification.  EMC\'s VSPEX Proven Infrastructure is a simple, efficient, and flexible reference architecture comprised of EMC’s award-winning storage systems and next-generation backup products, along with best-of-breed virtualization, server, and network technology from EMC alliance partners Brocade, Cisco, Citrix, Intel, Microsoft, and VMware.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe fourteen initial VSPEX configurations represent the most popular use cases for customers moving to cloud computing. These use cases are focused on enabling customers to accelerate deployment of private cloud and end user computing environments. For private cloud deployments customers have the option of running VMware vSphere 5.0 or Microsoft Windows Hyper-V from 50-250 virtual machines and for end-user computing deployments customers can choose between VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop® from 50 to 2000 virtual desktops. Full details are available on emc.com. Additional VSPEX configurations will be made available based on partner demand.\r\n\r\n\"EMC VSPEX will enable eGroup to provide our customers with complete solutions that accelerate the deployment of virtualization and cloud offerings for small-to-medium businesses as well as the mid-enterprise market\", commented Mike Stokes, Director of Sales, eGroup.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Proven Infrastructure is now available to partners in the EMC Velocity™ partner program. For the first time partners can fully leverage the EMC brand and industrial design in delivering VSPEX solutions to their customers. In addition EMC is providing VSPEX labs for partners to test, validate and demonstrate new VSPEX solutions.\r\n\r\n<strong>EMC VSPEX Customer Benefits</strong>\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Simple – VSPEX Proven Infrastructures deliver predictable performance that significantly reduces the planning, sizing and configuration burdens of adopting private cloud or end-user computing environments. In addition, EMC\'s validation of the VSPEX configuration greatly reduces deployment time. Finally, tight alignment with Windows Server Hyper-V and VMware vSphere cloud infrastructure provide customers a single point of management using System Center for Microsoft cloud and VMware vCenter™ Operations Management Suite for private cloud deployments.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Efficient – Built on EMC\'s award-winning VNX™ and VNXe™ unified storage systems and Avamar® and Data Domain® next-generation backup products, VSPEX provides customers with unmatched levels of efficiency. Leveraging technologies such as data deduplication, compression and Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST), customers can expect to significantly lower operational costs. By integrating these technologies tightly with the hypervisor and end-user computing environments, customers can also benefit from simpler administration and lower management costs.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Flexible – VSPEX allows customers to combine their choice of industry-leading server, network, and virtualization technologies into a proven infrastructure validated by EMC and built on a highly flexible EMC storage and backup infrastructure. Additionally, the customer\'s channel partner of choice – who understands the specific customer\'s requirements – can customize VSPEX to meet their needs.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;\">           </span></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','eGROUP FIRST CAROLINAS PARTNER TO ACHIEVE EMC VSPEX PROVEN INFRASTRUCTURE CERTIFICATION','','inherit','open','open','','6626-revision-3','','','2012-05-22 14:14:06','2012-05-22 14:14:06','',6626,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6626-revision-3',0,'revision','',0),(6632,2,'2012-05-22 14:14:25','2012-05-22 14:14:25','<em>eGroup, Inc. first Carolinas partner to become certified as part of EMC\'s virtualization and cloud initiative, and f</em><em>irst to offer customers complete spectrum of choice when moving to cloud computing.</em>\r\n\r\nMay 22, 2012 - Mt. Pleasant, SC - eGroup, Inc. today announced its EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure certification.  EMC\'s VSPEX Proven Infrastructure is a simple, efficient, and flexible reference architecture comprised of EMC’s award-winning storage systems and next-generation backup products, along with best-of-breed virtualization, server, and network technology from EMC alliance partners Brocade, Cisco, Citrix, Intel, Microsoft, and VMware.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe fourteen initial VSPEX configurations represent the most popular use cases for customers moving to cloud computing. These use cases are focused on enabling customers to accelerate deployment of private cloud and end user computing environments. For private cloud deployments customers have the option of running VMware vSphere 5.0 or Microsoft Windows Hyper-V from 50-250 virtual machines and for end-user computing deployments customers can choose between VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop® from 50 to 2000 virtual desktops. Full details are available on emc.com. Additional VSPEX configurations will be made available based on partner demand.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Proven Infrastructure is now available to partners in the EMC Velocity™ partner program. For the first time partners can fully leverage the EMC brand and industrial design in delivering VSPEX solutions to their customers. In addition EMC is providing VSPEX labs for partners to test, validate and demonstrate new VSPEX solutions.\r\n\r\n\"EMC VSPEX will enable eGroup to provide our customers with complete solutions that accelerate the deployment of virtualization and cloud offerings for small-to-medium businesses as well as the mid-enterprise market\", commented Mike Stokes, Director of Sales, eGroup.\r\n\r\n<strong>EMC VSPEX Customer Benefits</strong>\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Simple – VSPEX Proven Infrastructures deliver predictable performance that significantly reduces the planning, sizing and configuration burdens of adopting private cloud or end-user computing environments. In addition, EMC\'s validation of the VSPEX configuration greatly reduces deployment time. Finally, tight alignment with Windows Server Hyper-V and VMware vSphere cloud infrastructure provide customers a single point of management using System Center for Microsoft cloud and VMware vCenter™ Operations Management Suite for private cloud deployments.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Efficient – Built on EMC\'s award-winning VNX™ and VNXe™ unified storage systems and Avamar® and Data Domain® next-generation backup products, VSPEX provides customers with unmatched levels of efficiency. Leveraging technologies such as data deduplication, compression and Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST), customers can expect to significantly lower operational costs. By integrating these technologies tightly with the hypervisor and end-user computing environments, customers can also benefit from simpler administration and lower management costs.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Flexible – VSPEX allows customers to combine their choice of industry-leading server, network, and virtualization technologies into a proven infrastructure validated by EMC and built on a highly flexible EMC storage and backup infrastructure. Additionally, the customer\'s channel partner of choice – who understands the specific customer\'s requirements – can customize VSPEX to meet their needs.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;\">           </span></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','eGROUP FIRST CAROLINAS PARTNER TO ACHIEVE EMC VSPEX PROVEN INFRASTRUCTURE CERTIFICATION','','inherit','open','open','','6626-revision-4','','','2012-05-22 14:14:25','2012-05-22 14:14:25','',6626,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6626-revision-4',0,'revision','',0),(6633,2,'2012-05-22 14:14:50','2012-05-22 14:14:50','<em>eGroup, Inc. first Carolinas partner to become certified as part of EMC\'s virtualization and cloud initiative, and f</em><em>irst to offer customers complete spectrum of choice when moving to cloud computing.</em>\r\n\r\nMay 22, 2012 - Mt. Pleasant, SC - eGroup, Inc. today announced its EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure certification.  EMC\'s VSPEX Proven Infrastructure is a simple, efficient, and flexible reference architecture comprised of EMC’s award-winning storage systems and next-generation backup products, along with best-of-breed virtualization, server, and network technology from EMC alliance partners Brocade, Cisco, Citrix, Intel, Microsoft, and VMware.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe fourteen initial VSPEX configurations represent the most popular use cases for customers moving to cloud computing. These use cases are focused on enabling customers to accelerate deployment of private cloud and end user computing environments. For private cloud deployments customers have the option of running VMware vSphere 5.0 or Microsoft Windows Hyper-V from 50-250 virtual machines and for end-user computing deployments customers can choose between VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop® from 50 to 2000 virtual desktops. Full details are available on emc.com. Additional VSPEX configurations will be made available based on partner demand.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Proven Infrastructure is now available to partners in the EMC Velocity™ partner program. For the first time partners can fully leverage the EMC brand and industrial design in delivering VSPEX solutions to their customers. In addition EMC is providing VSPEX labs for partners to test, validate and demonstrate new VSPEX solutions.\r\n\r\n\"EMC VSPEX will enable eGroup to provide our customers with complete solutions that accelerate the deployment of virtualization and cloud offerings for small-to-medium businesses as well as the mid-enterprise market\", commented Mike Stokes, Director of Sales, eGroup.\r\n\r\n<strong>EMC VSPEX Customer Benefits</strong>\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Simple – VSPEX Proven Infrastructures deliver predictable performance that significantly reduces the planning, sizing and configuration burdens of adopting private cloud or end-user computing environments. In addition, EMC\'s validation of the VSPEX configuration greatly reduces deployment time. Finally, tight alignment with Windows Server Hyper-V and VMware vSphere cloud infrastructure provide customers a single point of management using System Center for Microsoft cloud and VMware vCenter™ Operations Management Suite for private cloud deployments.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Efficient – Built on EMC\'s award-winning VNX™ and VNXe™ unified storage systems and Avamar® and Data Domain® next-generation backup products, VSPEX provides customers with unmatched levels of efficiency. Leveraging technologies such as data deduplication, compression and Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST), customers can expect to significantly lower operational costs. By integrating these technologies tightly with the hypervisor and end-user computing environments, customers can also benefit from simpler administration and lower management costs.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Flexible – VSPEX allows customers to combine their choice of industry-leading server, network, and virtualization technologies into a proven infrastructure validated by EMC and built on a highly flexible EMC storage and backup infrastructure. Additionally, the customer\'s channel partner of choice – who understands the specific customer\'s requirements – can customize VSPEX to meet their needs.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;\">           </span></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','eGROUP FIRST CAROLINAS PARTNER TO ACHIEVE EMC VSPEX PROVEN INFRASTRUCTURE CERTIFICATION','','inherit','open','open','','6626-revision-5','','','2012-05-22 14:14:50','2012-05-22 14:14:50','',6626,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6626-revision-5',0,'revision','',0),(6634,2,'2012-05-22 14:15:17','2012-05-22 14:15:17','<em>eGroup, Inc. first of Carolinas partner to become certified as part of EMC\'s virtualization and cloud initiative, and f</em><em>irst to offer customers complete spectrum of choice when moving to cloud computing.</em>\r\n\r\nMay 22, 2012 - Mt. Pleasant, SC - eGroup, Inc. today announced its EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure certification.  EMC\'s VSPEX Proven Infrastructure is a simple, efficient, and flexible reference architecture comprised of EMC’s award-winning storage systems and next-generation backup products, along with best-of-breed virtualization, server, and network technology from EMC alliance partners Brocade, Cisco, Citrix, Intel, Microsoft, and VMware.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe fourteen initial VSPEX configurations represent the most popular use cases for customers moving to cloud computing. These use cases are focused on enabling customers to accelerate deployment of private cloud and end user computing environments. For private cloud deployments customers have the option of running VMware vSphere 5.0 or Microsoft Windows Hyper-V from 50-250 virtual machines and for end-user computing deployments customers can choose between VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop® from 50 to 2000 virtual desktops. Full details are available on emc.com. Additional VSPEX configurations will be made available based on partner demand.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Proven Infrastructure is now available to partners in the EMC Velocity™ partner program. For the first time partners can fully leverage the EMC brand and industrial design in delivering VSPEX solutions to their customers. In addition EMC is providing VSPEX labs for partners to test, validate and demonstrate new VSPEX solutions.\r\n\r\n\"EMC VSPEX will enable eGroup to provide our customers with complete solutions that accelerate the deployment of virtualization and cloud offerings for small-to-medium businesses as well as the mid-enterprise market\", commented Mike Stokes, Director of Sales, eGroup.\r\n\r\n<strong>EMC VSPEX Customer Benefits</strong>\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Simple – VSPEX Proven Infrastructures deliver predictable performance that significantly reduces the planning, sizing and configuration burdens of adopting private cloud or end-user computing environments. In addition, EMC\'s validation of the VSPEX configuration greatly reduces deployment time. Finally, tight alignment with Windows Server Hyper-V and VMware vSphere cloud infrastructure provide customers a single point of management using System Center for Microsoft cloud and VMware vCenter™ Operations Management Suite for private cloud deployments.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Efficient – Built on EMC\'s award-winning VNX™ and VNXe™ unified storage systems and Avamar® and Data Domain® next-generation backup products, VSPEX provides customers with unmatched levels of efficiency. Leveraging technologies such as data deduplication, compression and Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST), customers can expect to significantly lower operational costs. By integrating these technologies tightly with the hypervisor and end-user computing environments, customers can also benefit from simpler administration and lower management costs.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Flexible – VSPEX allows customers to combine their choice of industry-leading server, network, and virtualization technologies into a proven infrastructure validated by EMC and built on a highly flexible EMC storage and backup infrastructure. Additionally, the customer\'s channel partner of choice – who understands the specific customer\'s requirements – can customize VSPEX to meet their needs.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;\">           </span></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','eGROUP FIRST OF CAROLINAS PARTNER TO ACHIEVE EMC VSPEX PROVEN INFRASTRUCTURE CERTIFICATION','','inherit','open','open','','6626-revision-6','','','2012-05-22 14:15:17','2012-05-22 14:15:17','',6626,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6626-revision-6',0,'revision','',0),(6635,2,'2012-05-22 14:15:37','2012-05-22 14:15:37','<em>eGroup, Inc. first of Carolina partners to become certified as part of EMC\'s virtualization and cloud initiative, and f</em><em>irst to offer customers complete spectrum of choice when moving to cloud computing.</em>\r\n\r\nMay 22, 2012 - Mt. Pleasant, SC - eGroup, Inc. today announced its EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure certification.  EMC\'s VSPEX Proven Infrastructure is a simple, efficient, and flexible reference architecture comprised of EMC’s award-winning storage systems and next-generation backup products, along with best-of-breed virtualization, server, and network technology from EMC alliance partners Brocade, Cisco, Citrix, Intel, Microsoft, and VMware.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe fourteen initial VSPEX configurations represent the most popular use cases for customers moving to cloud computing. These use cases are focused on enabling customers to accelerate deployment of private cloud and end user computing environments. For private cloud deployments customers have the option of running VMware vSphere 5.0 or Microsoft Windows Hyper-V from 50-250 virtual machines and for end-user computing deployments customers can choose between VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop® from 50 to 2000 virtual desktops. Full details are available on emc.com. Additional VSPEX configurations will be made available based on partner demand.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Proven Infrastructure is now available to partners in the EMC Velocity™ partner program. For the first time partners can fully leverage the EMC brand and industrial design in delivering VSPEX solutions to their customers. In addition EMC is providing VSPEX labs for partners to test, validate and demonstrate new VSPEX solutions.\r\n\r\n\"EMC VSPEX will enable eGroup to provide our customers with complete solutions that accelerate the deployment of virtualization and cloud offerings for small-to-medium businesses as well as the mid-enterprise market\", commented Mike Stokes, Director of Sales, eGroup.\r\n\r\n<strong>EMC VSPEX Customer Benefits</strong>\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Simple – VSPEX Proven Infrastructures deliver predictable performance that significantly reduces the planning, sizing and configuration burdens of adopting private cloud or end-user computing environments. In addition, EMC\'s validation of the VSPEX configuration greatly reduces deployment time. Finally, tight alignment with Windows Server Hyper-V and VMware vSphere cloud infrastructure provide customers a single point of management using System Center for Microsoft cloud and VMware vCenter™ Operations Management Suite for private cloud deployments.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Efficient – Built on EMC\'s award-winning VNX™ and VNXe™ unified storage systems and Avamar® and Data Domain® next-generation backup products, VSPEX provides customers with unmatched levels of efficiency. Leveraging technologies such as data deduplication, compression and Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST), customers can expect to significantly lower operational costs. By integrating these technologies tightly with the hypervisor and end-user computing environments, customers can also benefit from simpler administration and lower management costs.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Flexible – VSPEX allows customers to combine their choice of industry-leading server, network, and virtualization technologies into a proven infrastructure validated by EMC and built on a highly flexible EMC storage and backup infrastructure. 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Pleasant, SC - eGroup, Inc. today announced its EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure certification.  EMC\'s VSPEX Proven Infrastructure is a simple, efficient, and flexible reference architecture comprised of EMC’s award-winning storage systems and next-generation backup products, along with best-of-breed virtualization, server, and network technology from EMC alliance partners Brocade, Cisco, Citrix, Intel, Microsoft, and VMware.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe fourteen initial VSPEX configurations represent the most popular use cases for customers moving to cloud computing. These use cases are focused on enabling customers to accelerate deployment of private cloud and end user computing environments. For private cloud deployments customers have the option of running VMware vSphere 5.0 or Microsoft Windows Hyper-V from 50-250 virtual machines and for end-user computing deployments customers can choose between VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop® from 50 to 2000 virtual desktops. Full details are available on emc.com. Additional VSPEX configurations will be made available based on partner demand.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Proven Infrastructure is now available to partners in the EMC Velocity™ partner program. For the first time partners can fully leverage the EMC brand and industrial design in delivering VSPEX solutions to their customers. In addition EMC is providing VSPEX labs for partners to test, validate and demonstrate new VSPEX solutions.\r\n\r\n\"EMC VSPEX will enable eGroup to provide our customers with complete solutions that accelerate the deployment of virtualization and cloud offerings for small-to-medium businesses as well as the mid-enterprise market\", commented Mike Stokes, Director of Sales, eGroup.\r\n\r\n<strong>EMC VSPEX Customer Benefits</strong>\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Simple – VSPEX Proven Infrastructures deliver predictable performance that significantly reduces the planning, sizing and configuration burdens of adopting private cloud or end-user computing environments. In addition, EMC\'s validation of the VSPEX configuration greatly reduces deployment time. Finally, tight alignment with Windows Server Hyper-V and VMware vSphere cloud infrastructure provide customers a single point of management using System Center for Microsoft cloud and VMware vCenter™ Operations Management Suite for private cloud deployments.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Efficient – Built on EMC\'s award-winning VNX™ and VNXe™ unified storage systems and Avamar® and Data Domain® next-generation backup products, VSPEX provides customers with unmatched levels of efficiency. Leveraging technologies such as data deduplication, compression and Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST), customers can expect to significantly lower operational costs. By integrating these technologies tightly with the hypervisor and end-user computing environments, customers can also benefit from simpler administration and lower management costs.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Flexible – VSPEX allows customers to combine their choice of industry-leading server, network, and virtualization technologies into a proven infrastructure validated by EMC and built on a highly flexible EMC storage and backup infrastructure. Additionally, the customer\'s channel partner of choice – who understands the specific customer\'s requirements – can customize VSPEX to meet their needs.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;\">           </span></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','eGROUP AMONG FIRST PARTNERS IN CAROLINAS TO ACHIEVE EMC VSPEX PROVEN INFRASTRUCTURE CERTIFICATION','','inherit','open','open','','6626-revision-8','','','2012-05-22 14:16:33','2012-05-22 14:16:33','',6626,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6626-revision-8',0,'revision','',0),(6637,44,'2012-05-22 15:19:35','2012-05-22 15:19:35','<span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">EMC’s Isilon is on the verge of its latest release of OneFS 7.0 code named “Mavericks”. With all of the buzz at EMC World this week there are bound to be some questions about what Mavericks means to Scale-Out-NAS users, so below is a breakdown of the new supported options and features including some info on what OneFS is to all the people that are new to Isilon. With the latest greatest features I think we are going to see a huge surge in NAS users seeking out Isilon not only because of what it offers from a feature standpoint but more importantly what it offers from an infrastructure standpoint…. Being able to scale storage at ease without taking a performance hit is an amazing thing!</span></span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">  More after the bump</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/isilon-droid.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-6641 aligncenter\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/isilon-droid-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"271\" /></a></span>\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>What is OneFS: </strong>OneFS is Isilon\'s sixth-generation operating system that provides the intelligence behind all Isilon scale-out NAS systems. It combines the three layers of traditional storage architectures—file system, volume manager, and RAID—into one unified software layer, creating a single intelligent file system that spans all nodes within a cluster. With OneFS 7.0, Isilon is able to deliver significant performance enhancements for Windows clients, integrated support for solid state drives (SSDs) within SmartPools, automated storage tiering, faster local and remote data replication, write once read many (WORM) data protection, and increased functionality and ease of management in heterogeneous environments.  </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: small\">What does this means to you? SIMPLE and EFFICIENT! No more wasted time carving out RAID groups, losing disk space, or wondering if your data is balanced... Let OneFS do the work for you! OneFS 7.0 is a major new software release that will significantly increase Isilon’s already more than capable systems and interoperability in the enterprise delivering an outstanding set of features This release dramatically enhances Isilon’s DR and business continuity offering with the much-anticipated introduction of SyncIQ 3.0. With OneFS 7.0 under the hood of Isilon\'s diverse offering of nodes, S- Series (High Performance), X-Series (Mid Tier Performance), and NL-Series (Archiving) we have a solution that can meet your needs. In short... <em>These ARE the nodes you are looking for!</em></span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><strong><span style=\"font-size: small\">What are the new Features? Here are just a few!</span></strong></li>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Global Namespace Acceleration: </strong>Isilon’s SmartPools feature allows customers to combine pools of different system types in the same cluster, all in a single file system, and to automatically migrate data among nodes with different performance and capacity characteristics so that data is always stored appropriately based on its value and how it needs to be accessed. In OneFS 7.0, Global Namespace Acceleration adds support in SmartPools for solid state drives. With Global Namespace Acceleration, a SmartPools environment can be configured to keep metadata or data on SSDs, and even to use SSDs in one part of the cluster to store metadata for systems that have no SSDs on board. The result is that critical SSD resources can be maximized to cost-effectively improve performance across a wide range of workflows</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Enhancements to Authentication, Identity Management, and Authorization: </strong>With OneFS 7.0, Isilon has made many enhancements to the configuration and management of Authentication, identity management, and authorization functions. OneFS 7.0 makes it much easier to configure and manage individuals’ access to and rights within multiple systems thanks to improvements such as support for multiple NIS/LDAP domains, user ID/system ID mapping, and Windows security descriptors.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>New SmartLock Delivers WORM Data Protection:</strong> SmartLock, Isilon’s latest feature, delivers write once read many (WORM) data protection against accidental, malicious, or premature alteration or deletion of data. The current implementation is an “Enterprise” feature, which is appropriate for data protection over time, is integrated with OneFS 7.0features like SyncIQ 3.0 replication, and works with third-party backup, but is not certified as a compliance solution. This is a feature that I see that is common in healthcare, and more often than not I get more requests wanting to know if we can do this with Isilon than most anything else.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>SyncIQ 3.0: </strong>SyncIQ 3.0 adds integrated snapshots, a new performance enhancement that quickly identifies and replicates data, dramatically reducing time needed to protect the same amount of data. Integrated snapshots remove the need for time-consuming treewalks every time data is synchronized. Most workflows will see a significant improvement in the time it takes for their hourly, daily, weekly, or other syncs to complete, which means better overall system performance as well as improvements in recovery point objectives (RPOs) for disaster recovery applications.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>New Networking Performance Enhancements and Options: </strong>A new implementation of both Isilon’s NFS and SMB (CIFS) stacks brings performance and management benefits today and provide a strong foundation for additional improvements in future releases.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">NFS: Support for NFS v2, 3, and 4</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">Kerberized session support for NFSv3 and 4</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">SMB: Support for SMB1 (CIFS) and SMB2 with significant performance boosts</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">There are also several new front-end networking options available in OneFS 7.0. In addition to continuing support for Cisco Fast EtherChannel (FEC), OneFS 7.0 adds new support for Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP-IEEE 802.3ad), failover, round robin, and load balance.</span><span style=\"font-size: small\">  </span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>','Isilon: Something new is coming with \"Mavericks\" OneFS 7.0','','publish','open','open','','isilon-something-new-is-coming-with-mavericks-onefs-6-5','','','2012-05-23 22:06:11','2012-05-23 22:06:11','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=6637',0,'post','',0),(6638,44,'2012-05-22 14:40:23','2012-05-22 14:40:23','<span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">EMC’s Isilon is on the verge of its latest release of OneFS 6.5 code named “Mavericks”. With all of the buzz at EMC World this week there are bound to be some questions about what Mavericks means to Scale-Out-NAS users, so below is a breakdown of the new supported options and features including some info on what OneFS is to all the people that are new to Isilon. With the latest greatest features I think we are going to see a huge surge in NAS users seeking out Isilon not only because of what it offers from a feature standpoint but more importantly what it offers from an infrastructure standpoint…. Being able to scale storage at ease without taking a performance hit is an amazing thing!</span></span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>\n<ul>\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>What is OneFS: </strong>OneFS is Isilon\'s sixth-generation operating system that provides the intelligence behind all Isilon scale-out NAS systems. It combines the three layers of traditional storage architectures—file system, volume manager, and RAID—into one unified software layer, creating a single intelligent file system that spans all nodes within a cluster. With OneFS 6.5, Isilon delivers significant performance enhancements for Windows clients, integrated support for solid state drives (SSDs) within SmartPools automated storage tiering, faster local and remote data replication, write once read many (WORM) data protection, and increased functionality and ease of management in heterogeneous environments.  What this means to you? SIMPLE and EFFICIENT! No more wasted time carving out RAID groups or wondering if your data is balanced, let OneFS do the work for you! OneFS 6.5 is a major new software release that significantly increases Isilon’s capabilities and interoperability in the enterprise, delivering an outstanding set of features This release dramatically enhances Isilon’s DR and business continuity story with the much-anticipated introduction of SyncIQ 3.0. OneFS 6.5 will break down the few remaining barriers to mainstream Isilon adoption in the enterprise.</span></li>\n	<li><strong><span style=\"font-size: small\">What are the new Features? </span></strong></li>\n<ul>\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Global Namespace Acceleration: </strong>Isilon’s SmartPools feature allows customers to combine pools of different system types in the same cluster, all in a single file system, and to automatically migrate data among nodes with different performance and capacity characteristics so that data is always stored appropriately based on its value and how it needs to be accessed. In OneFS 6.5, Global Namespace Acceleration adds support in SmartPools for solid state drives. With Global Namespace Acceleration, a SmartPools environment can be configured to keep metadata or data on SSDs, and even to use SSDs in one part of the cluster to store metadata for systems that have no SSDs on board. The result is that critical SSD resources can be maximized to cost-effectively improve performance across a wide range of workflows</span></li>\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Enhancements to Authentication, Identity Management, and Authorization: </strong>With OneFS 6.5, Isilon has made many enhancements to the configuration and management of Authentication, identity management, and authorization functions. OneFS 6.5 makes it much easier to configure and manage individuals’ access to and rights within multiple systems thanks to improvements such as support for multiple NIS/LDAP domains, user ID/system ID mapping, and Windows security descriptors.</span></li>\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>New SmartLock Delivers WORM Data Protection:</strong> SmartLock, Isilon’s latest feature, delivers write once read many (WORM) data protection against accidental, malicious, or premature alteration or deletion of data. The current implementation is an “Enterprise” feature, which is appropriate for data protection over time, is integrated with OneFS 6.5 features like SyncIQ 3.0 replication, and works with third-party backup, but is not certified as a compliance solution. This is a feature that I see that is common in healthcare, and more often than not I get more requests wanting to know if we can do this with Isilon than most anything else.</span></li>\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>SyncIQ 3.0: </strong>SyncIQ 3.0 adds integrated snapshots, a new performance enhancement that quickly identifies and replicates data, dramatically reducing time needed to protect the same amount of data. Integrated snapshots remove the need for time-consuming treewalks every time data is synchronized. Most workflows will see a significant improvement in the time it takes for their hourly, daily, weekly, or other syncs to complete, which means better overall system performance as well as improvements in recovery point objectives (RPOs) for disaster recovery applications.</span></li>\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>New Networking Performance Enhancements and Options: </strong>A new implementation of both Isilon’s NFS and SMB (CIFS) stacks brings performance and management benefits today and provide a strong foundation for additional improvements in future releases.</span></li>\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">NFS: Support for NFS v2, 3, and 4</span></li>\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">Kerberized session support for NFSv3 and 4</span></li>\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">SMB: Support for SMB1 (CIFS) and SMB2 with significant performance boosts</span></li>\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">There are also several new front-end networking options available in OneFS 6.5. In addition to continuing support for Cisco Fast EtherChannel (FEC), OneFS 6.5 adds new support for Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP-IEEE 802.3ad), failover, round robin, and load balance.</span></li>\n</ul>\n</ul>\n<span style=\"font-size: small\">      </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>','Isilon: Something new is coming with \"Mavericks\" OneFS 6.5','','inherit','open','open','','6637-revision','','','2012-05-22 14:40:23','2012-05-22 14:40:23','',6637,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6637-revision',0,'revision','',0),(6639,2,'2012-05-22 14:20:25','2012-05-22 14:20:25','<em>eGroup, Inc. is among the first of partners in Carolinas to become certified as part of EMC\'s virtualization and cloud initiative, and f</em><em>irst to offer customers complete spectrum of choice when moving to cloud computing.</em>\r\n\r\nMay 22, 2012 - Mt. Pleasant, SC - eGroup, Inc. today announced its EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure certification.  EMC\'s VSPEX Proven Infrastructure is a simple, efficient, and flexible reference architecture comprised of EMC’s award-winning storage systems and next-generation backup products, along with best-of-breed virtualization, server, and network technology from EMC alliance partners Brocade, Cisco, Citrix, Intel, Microsoft, and VMware.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe fourteen initial VSPEX configurations represent the most popular use cases for customers moving to cloud computing. These use cases are focused on enabling customers to accelerate deployment of private cloud and end user computing environments. For private cloud deployments customers have the option of running VMware vSphere 5.0 or Microsoft Windows Hyper-V from 50-250 virtual machines and for end-user computing deployments customers can choose between VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop® from 50 to 2000 virtual desktops. Full details are available on emc.com. Additional VSPEX configurations will be made available based on partner demand.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Proven Infrastructure is now available to partners in the EMC Velocity™ partner program. For the first time partners can fully leverage the EMC brand and industrial design in delivering VSPEX solutions to their customers. In addition EMC is providing VSPEX labs for partners to test, validate and demonstrate new VSPEX solutions.\r\n\r\n\"EMC VSPEX will enable eGroup to provide our customers with complete solutions that accelerate the deployment of virtualization and cloud offerings for small-to-medium businesses as well as the mid-enterprise market\", commented Mike Stokes, Director of Sales, eGroup.\r\n\r\n<strong>EMC VSPEX Customer Benefits</strong>\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Simple – VSPEX Proven Infrastructures deliver predictable performance that significantly reduces the planning, sizing and configuration burdens of adopting private cloud or end-user computing environments. In addition, EMC\'s validation of the VSPEX configuration greatly reduces deployment time. Finally, tight alignment with Windows Server Hyper-V and VMware vSphere cloud infrastructure provide customers a single point of management using System Center for Microsoft cloud and VMware vCenter™ Operations Management Suite for private cloud deployments.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Efficient – Built on EMC\'s award-winning VNX™ and VNXe™ unified storage systems and Avamar® and Data Domain® next-generation backup products, VSPEX provides customers with unmatched levels of efficiency. Leveraging technologies such as data deduplication, compression and Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST), customers can expect to significantly lower operational costs. By integrating these technologies tightly with the hypervisor and end-user computing environments, customers can also benefit from simpler administration and lower management costs.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Flexible – VSPEX allows customers to combine their choice of industry-leading server, network, and virtualization technologies into a proven infrastructure validated by EMC and built on a highly flexible EMC storage and backup infrastructure. Additionally, the customer\'s channel partner of choice – who understands the specific customer\'s requirements – can customize VSPEX to meet their needs.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;\">           </span></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','eGROUP AMONG FIRST PARTNERS IN CAROLINAS TO ACHIEVE EMC VSPEX PROVEN INFRASTRUCTURE CERTIFICATION','','inherit','open','open','','6626-revision-9','','','2012-05-22 14:20:25','2012-05-22 14:20:25','',6626,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6626-revision-9',0,'revision','',0),(6640,44,'2012-05-22 14:41:23','2012-05-22 14:41:23','<span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">EMC’s Isilon is on the verge of its latest release of OneFS 6.5 code named “Mavericks”. With all of the buzz at EMC World this week there are bound to be some questions about what Mavericks means to Scale-Out-NAS users, so below is a breakdown of the new supported options and features including some info on what OneFS is to all the people that are new to Isilon. With the latest greatest features I think we are going to see a huge surge in NAS users seeking out Isilon not only because of what it offers from a feature standpoint but more importantly what it offers from an infrastructure standpoint…. Being able to scale storage at ease without taking a performance hit is an amazing thing!</span></span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>\n<ul>\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>What is OneFS: </strong>OneFS is Isilon\'s sixth-generation operating system that provides the intelligence behind all Isilon scale-out NAS systems. It combines the three layers of traditional storage architectures—file system, volume manager, and RAID—into one unified software layer, creating a single intelligent file system that spans all nodes within a cluster. With OneFS 6.5, Isilon delivers significant performance enhancements for Windows clients, integrated support for solid state drives (SSDs) within SmartPools automated storage tiering, faster local and remote data replication, write once read many (WORM) data protection, and increased functionality and ease of management in heterogeneous environments.  What this means to you? SIMPLE and EFFICIENT! No more wasted time carving out RAID groups or wondering if your data is balanced, let OneFS do the work for you! OneFS 6.5 is a major new software release that significantly increases Isilon’s capabilities and interoperability in the enterprise, delivering an outstanding set of features This release dramatically enhances Isilon’s DR and business continuity story with the much-anticipated introduction of SyncIQ 3.0. OneFS 6.5 will break down the few remaining barriers to mainstream Isilon adoption in the enterprise.</span></li>\n	<li><strong><span style=\"font-size: small\">What are the new Features? </span></strong></li>\n<ul>\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Global Namespace Acceleration: </strong>Isilon’s SmartPools feature allows customers to combine pools of different system types in the same cluster, all in a single file system, and to automatically migrate data among nodes with different performance and capacity characteristics so that data is always stored appropriately based on its value and how it needs to be accessed. In OneFS 6.5, Global Namespace Acceleration adds support in SmartPools for solid state drives. With Global Namespace Acceleration, a SmartPools environment can be configured to keep metadata or data on SSDs, and even to use SSDs in one part of the cluster to store metadata for systems that have no SSDs on board. The result is that critical SSD resources can be maximized to cost-effectively improve performance across a wide range of workflows</span></li>\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Enhancements to Authentication, Identity Management, and Authorization: </strong>With OneFS 6.5, Isilon has made many enhancements to the configuration and management of Authentication, identity management, and authorization functions. OneFS 6.5 makes it much easier to configure and manage individuals’ access to and rights within multiple systems thanks to improvements such as support for multiple NIS/LDAP domains, user ID/system ID mapping, and Windows security descriptors.</span></li>\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>New SmartLock Delivers WORM Data Protection:</strong> SmartLock, Isilon’s latest feature, delivers write once read many (WORM) data protection against accidental, malicious, or premature alteration or deletion of data. The current implementation is an “Enterprise” feature, which is appropriate for data protection over time, is integrated with OneFS 6.5 features like SyncIQ 3.0 replication, and works with third-party backup, but is not certified as a compliance solution. This is a feature that I see that is common in healthcare, and more often than not I get more requests wanting to know if we can do this with Isilon than most anything else.</span></li>\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>SyncIQ 3.0: </strong>SyncIQ 3.0 adds integrated snapshots, a new performance enhancement that quickly identifies and replicates data, dramatically reducing time needed to protect the same amount of data. Integrated snapshots remove the need for time-consuming treewalks every time data is synchronized. Most workflows will see a significant improvement in the time it takes for their hourly, daily, weekly, or other syncs to complete, which means better overall system performance as well as improvements in recovery point objectives (RPOs) for disaster recovery applications.</span></li>\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>New Networking Performance Enhancements and Options: </strong>A new implementation of both Isilon’s NFS and SMB (CIFS) stacks brings performance and management benefits today and provide a strong foundation for additional improvements in future releases.</span></li>\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">NFS: Support for NFS v2, 3, and 4</span></li>\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">Kerberized session support for NFSv3 and 4</span></li>\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">SMB: Support for SMB1 (CIFS) and SMB2 with significant performance boosts</span></li>\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">There are also several new front-end networking options available in OneFS 6.5. In addition to continuing support for Cisco Fast EtherChannel (FEC), OneFS 6.5 adds new support for Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP-IEEE 802.3ad), failover, round robin, and load balance.</span><span style=\"font-size: small\">  </span></li>\n</ul>\n</ul>\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>','Isilon: Something new is coming with \"Mavericks\" OneFS 6.5','','inherit','open','open','','6637-revision-2','','','2012-05-22 14:41:23','2012-05-22 14:41:23','',6637,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6637-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(6641,44,'2012-05-22 14:58:18','2012-05-22 14:58:18','','isilon droid','','inherit','open','open','','isilon-droid','','','2012-05-22 14:58:18','2012-05-22 14:58:18','',6637,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/isilon-droid.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(6642,44,'2012-05-22 14:57:43','2012-05-22 14:57:43','<span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">EMC’s Isilon is on the verge of its latest release of OneFS 6.5 code named “Mavericks”. With all of the buzz at EMC World this week there are bound to be some questions about what Mavericks means to Scale-Out-NAS users, so below is a breakdown of the new supported options and features including some info on what OneFS is to all the people that are new to Isilon. With the latest greatest features I think we are going to see a huge surge in NAS users seeking out Isilon not only because of what it offers from a feature standpoint but more importantly what it offers from an infrastructure standpoint…. Being able to scale storage at ease without taking a performance hit is an amazing thing!</span></span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>What is OneFS: </strong>OneFS is Isilon\'s sixth-generation operating system that provides the intelligence behind all Isilon scale-out NAS systems. It combines the three layers of traditional storage architectures—file system, volume manager, and RAID—into one unified software layer, creating a single intelligent file system that spans all nodes within a cluster. With OneFS 6.5, Isilon is able to deliver significant performance enhancements for Windows clients, integrated support for solid state drives (SSDs) within SmartPools, automated storage tiering, faster local and remote data replication, write once read many (WORM) data protection, and increased functionality and ease of management in heterogeneous environments.  </span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: small\">What does this means to you? SIMPLE and EFFICIENT! No more wasted time carving out RAID groups, losing disk space, or wondering if your data is balanced... Let OneFS do the work for you! OneFS 6.5 is a major new software release that will significantly increase Isilon’s already more than capable systems and interoperability in the enterprise delivering an outstanding set of features This release dramatically enhances Isilon’s DR and business continuity offering with the much-anticipated introduction of SyncIQ 3.0. With OneFS 6.5 under the hood of Isilon\'s diverse offering of nodes, S- Series (High Performance), X-Series (Mid Tier Performance), and NL-Series (Archiving) we have a solution that can meet your needs. In short... These ARE the nodes you are looking for!</span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><strong><span style=\"font-size: small\">What are the new Features? Here are just a few!</span></strong></li>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Global Namespace Acceleration: </strong>Isilon’s SmartPools feature allows customers to combine pools of different system types in the same cluster, all in a single file system, and to automatically migrate data among nodes with different performance and capacity characteristics so that data is always stored appropriately based on its value and how it needs to be accessed. In OneFS 6.5, Global Namespace Acceleration adds support in SmartPools for solid state drives. With Global Namespace Acceleration, a SmartPools environment can be configured to keep metadata or data on SSDs, and even to use SSDs in one part of the cluster to store metadata for systems that have no SSDs on board. The result is that critical SSD resources can be maximized to cost-effectively improve performance across a wide range of workflows</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Enhancements to Authentication, Identity Management, and Authorization: </strong>With OneFS 6.5, Isilon has made many enhancements to the configuration and management of Authentication, identity management, and authorization functions. OneFS 6.5 makes it much easier to configure and manage individuals’ access to and rights within multiple systems thanks to improvements such as support for multiple NIS/LDAP domains, user ID/system ID mapping, and Windows security descriptors.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>New SmartLock Delivers WORM Data Protection:</strong> SmartLock, Isilon’s latest feature, delivers write once read many (WORM) data protection against accidental, malicious, or premature alteration or deletion of data. The current implementation is an “Enterprise” feature, which is appropriate for data protection over time, is integrated with OneFS 6.5 features like SyncIQ 3.0 replication, and works with third-party backup, but is not certified as a compliance solution. This is a feature that I see that is common in healthcare, and more often than not I get more requests wanting to know if we can do this with Isilon than most anything else.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>SyncIQ 3.0: </strong>SyncIQ 3.0 adds integrated snapshots, a new performance enhancement that quickly identifies and replicates data, dramatically reducing time needed to protect the same amount of data. Integrated snapshots remove the need for time-consuming treewalks every time data is synchronized. Most workflows will see a significant improvement in the time it takes for their hourly, daily, weekly, or other syncs to complete, which means better overall system performance as well as improvements in recovery point objectives (RPOs) for disaster recovery applications.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>New Networking Performance Enhancements and Options: </strong>A new implementation of both Isilon’s NFS and SMB (CIFS) stacks brings performance and management benefits today and provide a strong foundation for additional improvements in future releases.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">NFS: Support for NFS v2, 3, and 4</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">Kerberized session support for NFSv3 and 4</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">SMB: Support for SMB1 (CIFS) and SMB2 with significant performance boosts</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">There are also several new front-end networking options available in OneFS 6.5. In addition to continuing support for Cisco Fast EtherChannel (FEC), OneFS 6.5 adds new support for Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP-IEEE 802.3ad), failover, round robin, and load balance.</span><span style=\"font-size: small\">  </span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>','Isilon: Something new is coming with \"Mavericks\" OneFS 6.5','','inherit','open','open','','6637-revision-3','','','2012-05-22 14:57:43','2012-05-22 14:57:43','',6637,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6637-revision-3',0,'revision','',0),(6644,44,'2012-05-22 15:02:10','2012-05-22 15:02:10','<span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">EMC’s Isilon is on the verge of its latest release of OneFS 6.5 code named “Mavericks”. With all of the buzz at EMC World this week there are bound to be some questions about what Mavericks means to Scale-Out-NAS users, so below is a breakdown of the new supported options and features including some info on what OneFS is to all the people that are new to Isilon. With the latest greatest features I think we are going to see a huge surge in NAS users seeking out Isilon not only because of what it offers from a feature standpoint but more importantly what it offers from an infrastructure standpoint…. Being able to scale storage at ease without taking a performance hit is an amazing thing!</span></span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>What is OneFS: </strong>OneFS is Isilon\'s sixth-generation operating system that provides the intelligence behind all Isilon scale-out NAS systems. It combines the three layers of traditional storage architectures—file system, volume manager, and RAID—into one unified software layer, creating a single intelligent file system that spans all nodes within a cluster. With OneFS 6.5, Isilon is able to deliver significant performance enhancements for Windows clients, integrated support for solid state drives (SSDs) within SmartPools, automated storage tiering, faster local and remote data replication, write once read many (WORM) data protection, and increased functionality and ease of management in heterogeneous environments.  </span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: small\">What does this means to you? SIMPLE and EFFICIENT! No more wasted time carving out RAID groups, losing disk space, or wondering if your data is balanced... Let OneFS do the work for you! OneFS 6.5 is a major new software release that will significantly increase Isilon’s already more than capable systems and interoperability in the enterprise delivering an outstanding set of features This release dramatically enhances Isilon’s DR and business continuity offering with the much-anticipated introduction of SyncIQ 3.0. With OneFS 6.5 under the hood of Isilon\'s diverse offering of nodes, S- Series (High Performance), X-Series (Mid Tier Performance), and NL-Series (Archiving) we have a solution that can meet your needs. In short... These ARE the nodes you are looking for!</span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><strong><span style=\"font-size: small\">What are the new Features? Here are just a few!</span></strong></li>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Global Namespace Acceleration: </strong>Isilon’s SmartPools feature allows customers to combine pools of different system types in the same cluster, all in a single file system, and to automatically migrate data among nodes with different performance and capacity characteristics so that data is always stored appropriately based on its value and how it needs to be accessed. In OneFS 6.5, Global Namespace Acceleration adds support in SmartPools for solid state drives. With Global Namespace Acceleration, a SmartPools environment can be configured to keep metadata or data on SSDs, and even to use SSDs in one part of the cluster to store metadata for systems that have no SSDs on board. The result is that critical SSD resources can be maximized to cost-effectively improve performance across a wide range of workflows</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Enhancements to Authentication, Identity Management, and Authorization: </strong>With OneFS 6.5, Isilon has made many enhancements to the configuration and management of Authentication, identity management, and authorization functions. OneFS 6.5 makes it much easier to configure and manage individuals’ access to and rights within multiple systems thanks to improvements such as support for multiple NIS/LDAP domains, user ID/system ID mapping, and Windows security descriptors.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>New SmartLock Delivers WORM Data Protection:</strong> SmartLock, Isilon’s latest feature, delivers write once read many (WORM) data protection against accidental, malicious, or premature alteration or deletion of data. The current implementation is an “Enterprise” feature, which is appropriate for data protection over time, is integrated with OneFS 6.5 features like SyncIQ 3.0 replication, and works with third-party backup, but is not certified as a compliance solution. This is a feature that I see that is common in healthcare, and more often than not I get more requests wanting to know if we can do this with Isilon than most anything else.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>SyncIQ 3.0: </strong>SyncIQ 3.0 adds integrated snapshots, a new performance enhancement that quickly identifies and replicates data, dramatically reducing time needed to protect the same amount of data. Integrated snapshots remove the need for time-consuming treewalks every time data is synchronized. Most workflows will see a significant improvement in the time it takes for their hourly, daily, weekly, or other syncs to complete, which means better overall system performance as well as improvements in recovery point objectives (RPOs) for disaster recovery applications.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>New Networking Performance Enhancements and Options: </strong>A new implementation of both Isilon’s NFS and SMB (CIFS) stacks brings performance and management benefits today and provide a strong foundation for additional improvements in future releases.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">NFS: Support for NFS v2, 3, and 4</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">Kerberized session support for NFSv3 and 4</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">SMB: Support for SMB1 (CIFS) and SMB2 with significant performance boosts</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">There are also several new front-end networking options available in OneFS 6.5. In addition to continuing support for Cisco Fast EtherChannel (FEC), OneFS 6.5 adds new support for Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP-IEEE 802.3ad), failover, round robin, and load balance.</span><span style=\"font-size: small\">  </span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>','Isilon: Something new is coming with \"Mavericks\" OneFS 6.5','','inherit','open','open','','6637-revision-5','','','2012-05-22 15:02:10','2012-05-22 15:02:10','',6637,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6637-revision-5',0,'revision','',0),(6643,44,'2012-05-22 14:59:45','2012-05-22 14:59:45','<span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">EMC’s Isilon is on the verge of its latest release of OneFS 6.5 code named “Mavericks”. With all of the buzz at EMC World this week there are bound to be some questions about what Mavericks means to Scale-Out-NAS users, so below is a breakdown of the new supported options and features including some info on what OneFS is to all the people that are new to Isilon. With the latest greatest features I think we are going to see a huge surge in NAS users seeking out Isilon not only because of what it offers from a feature standpoint but more importantly what it offers from an infrastructure standpoint…. Being able to scale storage at ease without taking a performance hit is an amazing thing!</span></span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>What is OneFS: </strong>OneFS is Isilon\'s sixth-generation operating system that provides the intelligence behind all Isilon scale-out NAS systems. It combines the three layers of traditional storage architectures—file system, volume manager, and RAID—into one unified software layer, creating a single intelligent file system that spans all nodes within a cluster. With OneFS 6.5, Isilon is able to deliver significant performance enhancements for Windows clients, integrated support for solid state drives (SSDs) within SmartPools, automated storage tiering, faster local and remote data replication, write once read many (WORM) data protection, and increased functionality and ease of management in heterogeneous environments.  </span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: small\">What does this means to you? SIMPLE and EFFICIENT! No more wasted time carving out RAID groups, losing disk space, or wondering if your data is balanced... Let OneFS do the work for you! OneFS 6.5 is a major new software release that will significantly increase Isilon’s already more than capable systems and interoperability in the enterprise delivering an outstanding set of features This release dramatically enhances Isilon’s DR and business continuity offering with the much-anticipated introduction of SyncIQ 3.0. With OneFS 6.5 under the hood of Isilon\'s diverse offering of nodes, S- Series (High Performance), X-Series (Mid Tier Performance), and NL-Series (Archiving) we have a solution that can meet your needs. In short... These ARE the nodes you are looking for!</span>\r\n\r\n&lt;img src=\" <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/isilon-droid.jpg\">http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/isilon-droid.jpg</a>\"&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><strong><span style=\"font-size: small\">What are the new Features? Here are just a few!</span></strong></li>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Global Namespace Acceleration: </strong>Isilon’s SmartPools feature allows customers to combine pools of different system types in the same cluster, all in a single file system, and to automatically migrate data among nodes with different performance and capacity characteristics so that data is always stored appropriately based on its value and how it needs to be accessed. In OneFS 6.5, Global Namespace Acceleration adds support in SmartPools for solid state drives. With Global Namespace Acceleration, a SmartPools environment can be configured to keep metadata or data on SSDs, and even to use SSDs in one part of the cluster to store metadata for systems that have no SSDs on board. The result is that critical SSD resources can be maximized to cost-effectively improve performance across a wide range of workflows</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Enhancements to Authentication, Identity Management, and Authorization: </strong>With OneFS 6.5, Isilon has made many enhancements to the configuration and management of Authentication, identity management, and authorization functions. OneFS 6.5 makes it much easier to configure and manage individuals’ access to and rights within multiple systems thanks to improvements such as support for multiple NIS/LDAP domains, user ID/system ID mapping, and Windows security descriptors.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>New SmartLock Delivers WORM Data Protection:</strong> SmartLock, Isilon’s latest feature, delivers write once read many (WORM) data protection against accidental, malicious, or premature alteration or deletion of data. The current implementation is an “Enterprise” feature, which is appropriate for data protection over time, is integrated with OneFS 6.5 features like SyncIQ 3.0 replication, and works with third-party backup, but is not certified as a compliance solution. This is a feature that I see that is common in healthcare, and more often than not I get more requests wanting to know if we can do this with Isilon than most anything else.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>SyncIQ 3.0: </strong>SyncIQ 3.0 adds integrated snapshots, a new performance enhancement that quickly identifies and replicates data, dramatically reducing time needed to protect the same amount of data. Integrated snapshots remove the need for time-consuming treewalks every time data is synchronized. Most workflows will see a significant improvement in the time it takes for their hourly, daily, weekly, or other syncs to complete, which means better overall system performance as well as improvements in recovery point objectives (RPOs) for disaster recovery applications.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>New Networking Performance Enhancements and Options: </strong>A new implementation of both Isilon’s NFS and SMB (CIFS) stacks brings performance and management benefits today and provide a strong foundation for additional improvements in future releases.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">NFS: Support for NFS v2, 3, and 4</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">Kerberized session support for NFSv3 and 4</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">SMB: Support for SMB1 (CIFS) and SMB2 with significant performance boosts</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">There are also several new front-end networking options available in OneFS 6.5. In addition to continuing support for Cisco Fast EtherChannel (FEC), OneFS 6.5 adds new support for Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP-IEEE 802.3ad), failover, round robin, and load balance.</span><span style=\"font-size: small\">  </span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>','Isilon: Something new is coming with \"Mavericks\" OneFS 6.5','','inherit','open','open','','6637-revision-4','','','2012-05-22 14:59:45','2012-05-22 14:59:45','',6637,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6637-revision-4',0,'revision','',0),(6645,44,'2012-05-22 15:03:53','2012-05-22 15:03:53','<span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">EMC’s Isilon is on the verge of its latest release of OneFS 6.5 code named “Mavericks”. With all of the buzz at EMC World this week there are bound to be some questions about what Mavericks means to Scale-Out-NAS users, so below is a breakdown of the new supported options and features including some info on what OneFS is to all the people that are new to Isilon. With the latest greatest features I think we are going to see a huge surge in NAS users seeking out Isilon not only because of what it offers from a feature standpoint but more importantly what it offers from an infrastructure standpoint…. Being able to scale storage at ease without taking a performance hit is an amazing thing!</span></span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">  More after the bump.<!--more--></span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>What is OneFS: </strong>OneFS is Isilon\'s sixth-generation operating system that provides the intelligence behind all Isilon scale-out NAS systems. It combines the three layers of traditional storage architectures—file system, volume manager, and RAID—into one unified software layer, creating a single intelligent file system that spans all nodes within a cluster. With OneFS 6.5, Isilon is able to deliver significant performance enhancements for Windows clients, integrated support for solid state drives (SSDs) within SmartPools, automated storage tiering, faster local and remote data replication, write once read many (WORM) data protection, and increased functionality and ease of management in heterogeneous environments.  </span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: small\">What does this means to you? SIMPLE and EFFICIENT! No more wasted time carving out RAID groups, losing disk space, or wondering if your data is balanced... Let OneFS do the work for you! OneFS 6.5 is a major new software release that will significantly increase Isilon’s already more than capable systems and interoperability in the enterprise delivering an outstanding set of features This release dramatically enhances Isilon’s DR and business continuity offering with the much-anticipated introduction of SyncIQ 3.0. With OneFS 6.5 under the hood of Isilon\'s diverse offering of nodes, S- Series (High Performance), X-Series (Mid Tier Performance), and NL-Series (Archiving) we have a solution that can meet your needs. In short... These ARE the nodes you are looking for!</span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><strong><span style=\"font-size: small\">What are the new Features? Here are just a few!</span></strong></li>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Global Namespace Acceleration: </strong>Isilon’s SmartPools feature allows customers to combine pools of different system types in the same cluster, all in a single file system, and to automatically migrate data among nodes with different performance and capacity characteristics so that data is always stored appropriately based on its value and how it needs to be accessed. In OneFS 6.5, Global Namespace Acceleration adds support in SmartPools for solid state drives. With Global Namespace Acceleration, a SmartPools environment can be configured to keep metadata or data on SSDs, and even to use SSDs in one part of the cluster to store metadata for systems that have no SSDs on board. The result is that critical SSD resources can be maximized to cost-effectively improve performance across a wide range of workflows</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Enhancements to Authentication, Identity Management, and Authorization: </strong>With OneFS 6.5, Isilon has made many enhancements to the configuration and management of Authentication, identity management, and authorization functions. OneFS 6.5 makes it much easier to configure and manage individuals’ access to and rights within multiple systems thanks to improvements such as support for multiple NIS/LDAP domains, user ID/system ID mapping, and Windows security descriptors.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>New SmartLock Delivers WORM Data Protection:</strong> SmartLock, Isilon’s latest feature, delivers write once read many (WORM) data protection against accidental, malicious, or premature alteration or deletion of data. The current implementation is an “Enterprise” feature, which is appropriate for data protection over time, is integrated with OneFS 6.5 features like SyncIQ 3.0 replication, and works with third-party backup, but is not certified as a compliance solution. This is a feature that I see that is common in healthcare, and more often than not I get more requests wanting to know if we can do this with Isilon than most anything else.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>SyncIQ 3.0: </strong>SyncIQ 3.0 adds integrated snapshots, a new performance enhancement that quickly identifies and replicates data, dramatically reducing time needed to protect the same amount of data. Integrated snapshots remove the need for time-consuming treewalks every time data is synchronized. Most workflows will see a significant improvement in the time it takes for their hourly, daily, weekly, or other syncs to complete, which means better overall system performance as well as improvements in recovery point objectives (RPOs) for disaster recovery applications.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>New Networking Performance Enhancements and Options: </strong>A new implementation of both Isilon’s NFS and SMB (CIFS) stacks brings performance and management benefits today and provide a strong foundation for additional improvements in future releases.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">NFS: Support for NFS v2, 3, and 4</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">Kerberized session support for NFSv3 and 4</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">SMB: Support for SMB1 (CIFS) and SMB2 with significant performance boosts</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">There are also several new front-end networking options available in OneFS 6.5. In addition to continuing support for Cisco Fast EtherChannel (FEC), OneFS 6.5 adds new support for Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP-IEEE 802.3ad), failover, round robin, and load balance.</span><span style=\"font-size: small\">  </span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>','Isilon: Something new is coming with \"Mavericks\" OneFS 6.5','','inherit','open','open','','6637-revision-6','','','2012-05-22 15:03:53','2012-05-22 15:03:53','',6637,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6637-revision-6',0,'revision','',0),(6646,44,'2012-05-22 15:04:05','2012-05-22 15:04:05','<span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">EMC’s Isilon is on the verge of its latest release of OneFS 6.5 code named “Mavericks”. With all of the buzz at EMC World this week there are bound to be some questions about what Mavericks means to Scale-Out-NAS users, so below is a breakdown of the new supported options and features including some info on what OneFS is to all the people that are new to Isilon. With the latest greatest features I think we are going to see a huge surge in NAS users seeking out Isilon not only because of what it offers from a feature standpoint but more importantly what it offers from an infrastructure standpoint…. Being able to scale storage at ease without taking a performance hit is an amazing thing!</span></span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">  More after the bump.<!--more--></span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>What is OneFS: </strong>OneFS is Isilon\'s sixth-generation operating system that provides the intelligence behind all Isilon scale-out NAS systems. It combines the three layers of traditional storage architectures—file system, volume manager, and RAID—into one unified software layer, creating a single intelligent file system that spans all nodes within a cluster. With OneFS 6.5, Isilon is able to deliver significant performance enhancements for Windows clients, integrated support for solid state drives (SSDs) within SmartPools, automated storage tiering, faster local and remote data replication, write once read many (WORM) data protection, and increased functionality and ease of management in heterogeneous environments.  </span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: small\">What does this means to you? SIMPLE and EFFICIENT! No more wasted time carving out RAID groups, losing disk space, or wondering if your data is balanced... Let OneFS do the work for you! OneFS 6.5 is a major new software release that will significantly increase Isilon’s already more than capable systems and interoperability in the enterprise delivering an outstanding set of features This release dramatically enhances Isilon’s DR and business continuity offering with the much-anticipated introduction of SyncIQ 3.0. With OneFS 6.5 under the hood of Isilon\'s diverse offering of nodes, S- Series (High Performance), X-Series (Mid Tier Performance), and NL-Series (Archiving) we have a solution that can meet your needs. In short... These ARE the nodes you are looking for!</span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><strong><span style=\"font-size: small\">What are the new Features? Here are just a few!</span></strong></li>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Global Namespace Acceleration: </strong>Isilon’s SmartPools feature allows customers to combine pools of different system types in the same cluster, all in a single file system, and to automatically migrate data among nodes with different performance and capacity characteristics so that data is always stored appropriately based on its value and how it needs to be accessed. In OneFS 6.5, Global Namespace Acceleration adds support in SmartPools for solid state drives. With Global Namespace Acceleration, a SmartPools environment can be configured to keep metadata or data on SSDs, and even to use SSDs in one part of the cluster to store metadata for systems that have no SSDs on board. The result is that critical SSD resources can be maximized to cost-effectively improve performance across a wide range of workflows</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Enhancements to Authentication, Identity Management, and Authorization: </strong>With OneFS 6.5, Isilon has made many enhancements to the configuration and management of Authentication, identity management, and authorization functions. OneFS 6.5 makes it much easier to configure and manage individuals’ access to and rights within multiple systems thanks to improvements such as support for multiple NIS/LDAP domains, user ID/system ID mapping, and Windows security descriptors.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>New SmartLock Delivers WORM Data Protection:</strong> SmartLock, Isilon’s latest feature, delivers write once read many (WORM) data protection against accidental, malicious, or premature alteration or deletion of data. The current implementation is an “Enterprise” feature, which is appropriate for data protection over time, is integrated with OneFS 6.5 features like SyncIQ 3.0 replication, and works with third-party backup, but is not certified as a compliance solution. This is a feature that I see that is common in healthcare, and more often than not I get more requests wanting to know if we can do this with Isilon than most anything else.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>SyncIQ 3.0: </strong>SyncIQ 3.0 adds integrated snapshots, a new performance enhancement that quickly identifies and replicates data, dramatically reducing time needed to protect the same amount of data. Integrated snapshots remove the need for time-consuming treewalks every time data is synchronized. Most workflows will see a significant improvement in the time it takes for their hourly, daily, weekly, or other syncs to complete, which means better overall system performance as well as improvements in recovery point objectives (RPOs) for disaster recovery applications.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>New Networking Performance Enhancements and Options: </strong>A new implementation of both Isilon’s NFS and SMB (CIFS) stacks brings performance and management benefits today and provide a strong foundation for additional improvements in future releases.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">NFS: Support for NFS v2, 3, and 4</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">Kerberized session support for NFSv3 and 4</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">SMB: Support for SMB1 (CIFS) and SMB2 with significant performance boosts</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">There are also several new front-end networking options available in OneFS 6.5. In addition to continuing support for Cisco Fast EtherChannel (FEC), OneFS 6.5 adds new support for Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP-IEEE 802.3ad), failover, round robin, and load balance.</span><span style=\"font-size: small\">  </span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>','Isilon: Something new is coming with \"Mavericks\" OneFS 6.5','','inherit','open','open','','6637-revision-7','','','2012-05-22 15:04:05','2012-05-22 15:04:05','',6637,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6637-revision-7',0,'revision','',0),(6647,44,'2012-05-22 15:04:20','2012-05-22 15:04:20','<span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">EMC’s Isilon is on the verge of its latest release of OneFS 6.5 code named “Mavericks”. With all of the buzz at EMC World this week there are bound to be some questions about what Mavericks means to Scale-Out-NAS users, so below is a breakdown of the new supported options and features including some info on what OneFS is to all the people that are new to Isilon. With the latest greatest features I think we are going to see a huge surge in NAS users seeking out Isilon not only because of what it offers from a feature standpoint but more importantly what it offers from an infrastructure standpoint…. Being able to scale storage at ease without taking a performance hit is an amazing thing!</span></span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">  More after the bump.<!--more--></span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>What is OneFS: </strong>OneFS is Isilon\'s sixth-generation operating system that provides the intelligence behind all Isilon scale-out NAS systems. It combines the three layers of traditional storage architectures—file system, volume manager, and RAID—into one unified software layer, creating a single intelligent file system that spans all nodes within a cluster. With OneFS 6.5, Isilon is able to deliver significant performance enhancements for Windows clients, integrated support for solid state drives (SSDs) within SmartPools, automated storage tiering, faster local and remote data replication, write once read many (WORM) data protection, and increased functionality and ease of management in heterogeneous environments.  </span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: small\">What does this means to you? SIMPLE and EFFICIENT! No more wasted time carving out RAID groups, losing disk space, or wondering if your data is balanced... Let OneFS do the work for you! OneFS 6.5 is a major new software release that will significantly increase Isilon’s already more than capable systems and interoperability in the enterprise delivering an outstanding set of features This release dramatically enhances Isilon’s DR and business continuity offering with the much-anticipated introduction of SyncIQ 3.0. With OneFS 6.5 under the hood of Isilon\'s diverse offering of nodes, S- Series (High Performance), X-Series (Mid Tier Performance), and NL-Series (Archiving) we have a solution that can meet your needs. In short... These ARE the nodes you are looking for!</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><strong><span style=\"font-size: small\">What are the new Features? Here are just a few!</span></strong></li>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Global Namespace Acceleration: </strong>Isilon’s SmartPools feature allows customers to combine pools of different system types in the same cluster, all in a single file system, and to automatically migrate data among nodes with different performance and capacity characteristics so that data is always stored appropriately based on its value and how it needs to be accessed. In OneFS 6.5, Global Namespace Acceleration adds support in SmartPools for solid state drives. With Global Namespace Acceleration, a SmartPools environment can be configured to keep metadata or data on SSDs, and even to use SSDs in one part of the cluster to store metadata for systems that have no SSDs on board. The result is that critical SSD resources can be maximized to cost-effectively improve performance across a wide range of workflows</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Enhancements to Authentication, Identity Management, and Authorization: </strong>With OneFS 6.5, Isilon has made many enhancements to the configuration and management of Authentication, identity management, and authorization functions. OneFS 6.5 makes it much easier to configure and manage individuals’ access to and rights within multiple systems thanks to improvements such as support for multiple NIS/LDAP domains, user ID/system ID mapping, and Windows security descriptors.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>New SmartLock Delivers WORM Data Protection:</strong> SmartLock, Isilon’s latest feature, delivers write once read many (WORM) data protection against accidental, malicious, or premature alteration or deletion of data. The current implementation is an “Enterprise” feature, which is appropriate for data protection over time, is integrated with OneFS 6.5 features like SyncIQ 3.0 replication, and works with third-party backup, but is not certified as a compliance solution. This is a feature that I see that is common in healthcare, and more often than not I get more requests wanting to know if we can do this with Isilon than most anything else.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>SyncIQ 3.0: </strong>SyncIQ 3.0 adds integrated snapshots, a new performance enhancement that quickly identifies and replicates data, dramatically reducing time needed to protect the same amount of data. Integrated snapshots remove the need for time-consuming treewalks every time data is synchronized. Most workflows will see a significant improvement in the time it takes for their hourly, daily, weekly, or other syncs to complete, which means better overall system performance as well as improvements in recovery point objectives (RPOs) for disaster recovery applications.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>New Networking Performance Enhancements and Options: </strong>A new implementation of both Isilon’s NFS and SMB (CIFS) stacks brings performance and management benefits today and provide a strong foundation for additional improvements in future releases.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">NFS: Support for NFS v2, 3, and 4</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">Kerberized session support for NFSv3 and 4</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">SMB: Support for SMB1 (CIFS) and SMB2 with significant performance boosts</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">There are also several new front-end networking options available in OneFS 6.5. In addition to continuing support for Cisco Fast EtherChannel (FEC), OneFS 6.5 adds new support for Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP-IEEE 802.3ad), failover, round robin, and load balance.</span><span style=\"font-size: small\">  </span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>','Isilon: Something new is coming with \"Mavericks\" OneFS 6.5','','inherit','open','open','','6637-revision-8','','','2012-05-22 15:04:20','2012-05-22 15:04:20','',6637,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6637-revision-8',0,'revision','',0),(6648,44,'2012-05-22 15:05:36','2012-05-22 15:05:36','<span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">EMC’s Isilon is on the verge of its latest release of OneFS 6.5 code named “Mavericks”. With all of the buzz at EMC World this week there are bound to be some questions about what Mavericks means to Scale-Out-NAS users, so below is a breakdown of the new supported options and features including some info on what OneFS is to all the people that are new to Isilon. With the latest greatest features I think we are going to see a huge surge in NAS users seeking out Isilon not only because of what it offers from a feature standpoint but more importantly what it offers from an infrastructure standpoint…. Being able to scale storage at ease without taking a performance hit is an amazing thing!</span></span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">  More after the bump.<!--more--></span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>What is OneFS: </strong>OneFS is Isilon\'s sixth-generation operating system that provides the intelligence behind all Isilon scale-out NAS systems. It combines the three layers of traditional storage architectures—file system, volume manager, and RAID—into one unified software layer, creating a single intelligent file system that spans all nodes within a cluster. With OneFS 6.5, Isilon is able to deliver significant performance enhancements for Windows clients, integrated support for solid state drives (SSDs) within SmartPools, automated storage tiering, faster local and remote data replication, write once read many (WORM) data protection, and increased functionality and ease of management in heterogeneous environments.  </span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: small\">What does this means to you? SIMPLE and EFFICIENT! No more wasted time carving out RAID groups, losing disk space, or wondering if your data is balanced... Let OneFS do the work for you! OneFS 6.5 is a major new software release that will significantly increase Isilon’s already more than capable systems and interoperability in the enterprise delivering an outstanding set of features This release dramatically enhances Isilon’s DR and business continuity offering with the much-anticipated introduction of SyncIQ 3.0. With OneFS 6.5 under the hood of Isilon\'s diverse offering of nodes, S- Series (High Performance), X-Series (Mid Tier Performance), and NL-Series (Archiving) we have a solution that can meet your needs. In short... These ARE the nodes you are looking for!</span>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/isilon-droid.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6641\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/isilon-droid-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><strong><span style=\"font-size: small\">What are the new Features? Here are just a few!</span></strong></li>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Global Namespace Acceleration: </strong>Isilon’s SmartPools feature allows customers to combine pools of different system types in the same cluster, all in a single file system, and to automatically migrate data among nodes with different performance and capacity characteristics so that data is always stored appropriately based on its value and how it needs to be accessed. In OneFS 6.5, Global Namespace Acceleration adds support in SmartPools for solid state drives. With Global Namespace Acceleration, a SmartPools environment can be configured to keep metadata or data on SSDs, and even to use SSDs in one part of the cluster to store metadata for systems that have no SSDs on board. The result is that critical SSD resources can be maximized to cost-effectively improve performance across a wide range of workflows</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Enhancements to Authentication, Identity Management, and Authorization: </strong>With OneFS 6.5, Isilon has made many enhancements to the configuration and management of Authentication, identity management, and authorization functions. OneFS 6.5 makes it much easier to configure and manage individuals’ access to and rights within multiple systems thanks to improvements such as support for multiple NIS/LDAP domains, user ID/system ID mapping, and Windows security descriptors.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>New SmartLock Delivers WORM Data Protection:</strong> SmartLock, Isilon’s latest feature, delivers write once read many (WORM) data protection against accidental, malicious, or premature alteration or deletion of data. The current implementation is an “Enterprise” feature, which is appropriate for data protection over time, is integrated with OneFS 6.5 features like SyncIQ 3.0 replication, and works with third-party backup, but is not certified as a compliance solution. This is a feature that I see that is common in healthcare, and more often than not I get more requests wanting to know if we can do this with Isilon than most anything else.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>SyncIQ 3.0: </strong>SyncIQ 3.0 adds integrated snapshots, a new performance enhancement that quickly identifies and replicates data, dramatically reducing time needed to protect the same amount of data. Integrated snapshots remove the need for time-consuming treewalks every time data is synchronized. Most workflows will see a significant improvement in the time it takes for their hourly, daily, weekly, or other syncs to complete, which means better overall system performance as well as improvements in recovery point objectives (RPOs) for disaster recovery applications.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>New Networking Performance Enhancements and Options: </strong>A new implementation of both Isilon’s NFS and SMB (CIFS) stacks brings performance and management benefits today and provide a strong foundation for additional improvements in future releases.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">NFS: Support for NFS v2, 3, and 4</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">Kerberized session support for NFSv3 and 4</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">SMB: Support for SMB1 (CIFS) and SMB2 with significant performance boosts</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">There are also several new front-end networking options available in OneFS 6.5. In addition to continuing support for Cisco Fast EtherChannel (FEC), OneFS 6.5 adds new support for Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP-IEEE 802.3ad), failover, round robin, and load balance.</span><span style=\"font-size: small\">  </span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>','Isilon: Something new is coming with \"Mavericks\" OneFS 6.5','','inherit','open','open','','6637-revision-9','','','2012-05-22 15:05:36','2012-05-22 15:05:36','',6637,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6637-revision-9',0,'revision','',0),(6649,44,'2012-05-22 15:05:54','2012-05-22 15:05:54','<span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">EMC’s Isilon is on the verge of its latest release of OneFS 6.5 code named “Mavericks”. With all of the buzz at EMC World this week there are bound to be some questions about what Mavericks means to Scale-Out-NAS users, so below is a breakdown of the new supported options and features including some info on what OneFS is to all the people that are new to Isilon. With the latest greatest features I think we are going to see a huge surge in NAS users seeking out Isilon not only because of what it offers from a feature standpoint but more importantly what it offers from an infrastructure standpoint…. Being able to scale storage at ease without taking a performance hit is an amazing thing!</span></span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">  More after the bump.<!--more--></span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>What is OneFS: </strong>OneFS is Isilon\'s sixth-generation operating system that provides the intelligence behind all Isilon scale-out NAS systems. It combines the three layers of traditional storage architectures—file system, volume manager, and RAID—into one unified software layer, creating a single intelligent file system that spans all nodes within a cluster. With OneFS 6.5, Isilon is able to deliver significant performance enhancements for Windows clients, integrated support for solid state drives (SSDs) within SmartPools, automated storage tiering, faster local and remote data replication, write once read many (WORM) data protection, and increased functionality and ease of management in heterogeneous environments.  </span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: small\">What does this means to you? SIMPLE and EFFICIENT! No more wasted time carving out RAID groups, losing disk space, or wondering if your data is balanced... Let OneFS do the work for you! OneFS 6.5 is a major new software release that will significantly increase Isilon’s already more than capable systems and interoperability in the enterprise delivering an outstanding set of features This release dramatically enhances Isilon’s DR and business continuity offering with the much-anticipated introduction of SyncIQ 3.0. With OneFS 6.5 under the hood of Isilon\'s diverse offering of nodes, S- Series (High Performance), X-Series (Mid Tier Performance), and NL-Series (Archiving) we have a solution that can meet your needs. In short... These ARE the nodes you are looking for!</span>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/isilon-droid.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-6641 alignnone\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/isilon-droid-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><strong><span style=\"font-size: small\">What are the new Features? Here are just a few!</span></strong></li>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Global Namespace Acceleration: </strong>Isilon’s SmartPools feature allows customers to combine pools of different system types in the same cluster, all in a single file system, and to automatically migrate data among nodes with different performance and capacity characteristics so that data is always stored appropriately based on its value and how it needs to be accessed. In OneFS 6.5, Global Namespace Acceleration adds support in SmartPools for solid state drives. With Global Namespace Acceleration, a SmartPools environment can be configured to keep metadata or data on SSDs, and even to use SSDs in one part of the cluster to store metadata for systems that have no SSDs on board. The result is that critical SSD resources can be maximized to cost-effectively improve performance across a wide range of workflows</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Enhancements to Authentication, Identity Management, and Authorization: </strong>With OneFS 6.5, Isilon has made many enhancements to the configuration and management of Authentication, identity management, and authorization functions. OneFS 6.5 makes it much easier to configure and manage individuals’ access to and rights within multiple systems thanks to improvements such as support for multiple NIS/LDAP domains, user ID/system ID mapping, and Windows security descriptors.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>New SmartLock Delivers WORM Data Protection:</strong> SmartLock, Isilon’s latest feature, delivers write once read many (WORM) data protection against accidental, malicious, or premature alteration or deletion of data. The current implementation is an “Enterprise” feature, which is appropriate for data protection over time, is integrated with OneFS 6.5 features like SyncIQ 3.0 replication, and works with third-party backup, but is not certified as a compliance solution. This is a feature that I see that is common in healthcare, and more often than not I get more requests wanting to know if we can do this with Isilon than most anything else.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>SyncIQ 3.0: </strong>SyncIQ 3.0 adds integrated snapshots, a new performance enhancement that quickly identifies and replicates data, dramatically reducing time needed to protect the same amount of data. Integrated snapshots remove the need for time-consuming treewalks every time data is synchronized. Most workflows will see a significant improvement in the time it takes for their hourly, daily, weekly, or other syncs to complete, which means better overall system performance as well as improvements in recovery point objectives (RPOs) for disaster recovery applications.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>New Networking Performance Enhancements and Options: </strong>A new implementation of both Isilon’s NFS and SMB (CIFS) stacks brings performance and management benefits today and provide a strong foundation for additional improvements in future releases.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">NFS: Support for NFS v2, 3, and 4</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">Kerberized session support for NFSv3 and 4</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">SMB: Support for SMB1 (CIFS) and SMB2 with significant performance boosts</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">There are also several new front-end networking options available in OneFS 6.5. In addition to continuing support for Cisco Fast EtherChannel (FEC), OneFS 6.5 adds new support for Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP-IEEE 802.3ad), failover, round robin, and load balance.</span><span style=\"font-size: small\">  </span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>','Isilon: Something new is coming with \"Mavericks\" OneFS 6.5','','inherit','open','open','','6637-revision-10','','','2012-05-22 15:05:54','2012-05-22 15:05:54','',6637,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6637-revision-10',0,'revision','',0),(6650,44,'2012-05-22 15:17:11','2012-05-22 15:17:11','<span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">EMC’s Isilon is on the verge of its latest release of OneFS 6.5 code named “Mavericks”. With all of the buzz at EMC World this week there are bound to be some questions about what Mavericks means to Scale-Out-NAS users, so below is a breakdown of the new supported options and features including some info on what OneFS is to all the people that are new to Isilon. With the latest greatest features I think we are going to see a huge surge in NAS users seeking out Isilon not only because of what it offers from a feature standpoint but more importantly what it offers from an infrastructure standpoint…. Being able to scale storage at ease without taking a performance hit is an amazing thing!</span></span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">  More after the bump</span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/isilon-droid.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-6641 aligncenter\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/isilon-droid-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"229\" /></a></span>\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>What is OneFS: </strong>OneFS is Isilon\'s sixth-generation operating system that provides the intelligence behind all Isilon scale-out NAS systems. It combines the three layers of traditional storage architectures—file system, volume manager, and RAID—into one unified software layer, creating a single intelligent file system that spans all nodes within a cluster. With OneFS 6.5, Isilon is able to deliver significant performance enhancements for Windows clients, integrated support for solid state drives (SSDs) within SmartPools, automated storage tiering, faster local and remote data replication, write once read many (WORM) data protection, and increased functionality and ease of management in heterogeneous environments.  </span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: small\">What does this means to you? SIMPLE and EFFICIENT! No more wasted time carving out RAID groups, losing disk space, or wondering if your data is balanced... Let OneFS do the work for you! OneFS 6.5 is a major new software release that will significantly increase Isilon’s already more than capable systems and interoperability in the enterprise delivering an outstanding set of features This release dramatically enhances Isilon’s DR and business continuity offering with the much-anticipated introduction of SyncIQ 3.0. With OneFS 6.5 under the hood of Isilon\'s diverse offering of nodes, S- Series (High Performance), X-Series (Mid Tier Performance), and NL-Series (Archiving) we have a solution that can meet your needs. In short... These ARE the nodes you are looking for!</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><strong><span style=\"font-size: small\">What are the new Features? Here are just a few!</span></strong></li>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Global Namespace Acceleration: </strong>Isilon’s SmartPools feature allows customers to combine pools of different system types in the same cluster, all in a single file system, and to automatically migrate data among nodes with different performance and capacity characteristics so that data is always stored appropriately based on its value and how it needs to be accessed. In OneFS 6.5, Global Namespace Acceleration adds support in SmartPools for solid state drives. With Global Namespace Acceleration, a SmartPools environment can be configured to keep metadata or data on SSDs, and even to use SSDs in one part of the cluster to store metadata for systems that have no SSDs on board. The result is that critical SSD resources can be maximized to cost-effectively improve performance across a wide range of workflows</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Enhancements to Authentication, Identity Management, and Authorization: </strong>With OneFS 6.5, Isilon has made many enhancements to the configuration and management of Authentication, identity management, and authorization functions. OneFS 6.5 makes it much easier to configure and manage individuals’ access to and rights within multiple systems thanks to improvements such as support for multiple NIS/LDAP domains, user ID/system ID mapping, and Windows security descriptors.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>New SmartLock Delivers WORM Data Protection:</strong> SmartLock, Isilon’s latest feature, delivers write once read many (WORM) data protection against accidental, malicious, or premature alteration or deletion of data. The current implementation is an “Enterprise” feature, which is appropriate for data protection over time, is integrated with OneFS 6.5 features like SyncIQ 3.0 replication, and works with third-party backup, but is not certified as a compliance solution. This is a feature that I see that is common in healthcare, and more often than not I get more requests wanting to know if we can do this with Isilon than most anything else.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>SyncIQ 3.0: </strong>SyncIQ 3.0 adds integrated snapshots, a new performance enhancement that quickly identifies and replicates data, dramatically reducing time needed to protect the same amount of data. Integrated snapshots remove the need for time-consuming treewalks every time data is synchronized. Most workflows will see a significant improvement in the time it takes for their hourly, daily, weekly, or other syncs to complete, which means better overall system performance as well as improvements in recovery point objectives (RPOs) for disaster recovery applications.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>New Networking Performance Enhancements and Options: </strong>A new implementation of both Isilon’s NFS and SMB (CIFS) stacks brings performance and management benefits today and provide a strong foundation for additional improvements in future releases.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">NFS: Support for NFS v2, 3, and 4</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">Kerberized session support for NFSv3 and 4</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">SMB: Support for SMB1 (CIFS) and SMB2 with significant performance boosts</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">There are also several new front-end networking options available in OneFS 6.5. In addition to continuing support for Cisco Fast EtherChannel (FEC), OneFS 6.5 adds new support for Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP-IEEE 802.3ad), failover, round robin, and load balance.</span><span style=\"font-size: small\">  </span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>','Isilon: Something new is coming with \"Mavericks\" OneFS 6.5','','inherit','open','open','','6637-revision-11','','','2012-05-22 15:17:11','2012-05-22 15:17:11','',6637,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6637-revision-11',0,'revision','',0),(6651,44,'2012-05-22 15:17:48','2012-05-22 15:17:48','<span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">EMC’s Isilon is on the verge of its latest release of OneFS 6.5 code named “Mavericks”. With all of the buzz at EMC World this week there are bound to be some questions about what Mavericks means to Scale-Out-NAS users, so below is a breakdown of the new supported options and features including some info on what OneFS is to all the people that are new to Isilon. With the latest greatest features I think we are going to see a huge surge in NAS users seeking out Isilon not only because of what it offers from a feature standpoint but more importantly what it offers from an infrastructure standpoint…. Being able to scale storage at ease without taking a performance hit is an amazing thing!</span></span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">  More after the bump</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/isilon-droid.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-6641 aligncenter\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/isilon-droid-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"229\" /></a></span>\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>What is OneFS: </strong>OneFS is Isilon\'s sixth-generation operating system that provides the intelligence behind all Isilon scale-out NAS systems. It combines the three layers of traditional storage architectures—file system, volume manager, and RAID—into one unified software layer, creating a single intelligent file system that spans all nodes within a cluster. With OneFS 6.5, Isilon is able to deliver significant performance enhancements for Windows clients, integrated support for solid state drives (SSDs) within SmartPools, automated storage tiering, faster local and remote data replication, write once read many (WORM) data protection, and increased functionality and ease of management in heterogeneous environments.  </span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: small\">What does this means to you? SIMPLE and EFFICIENT! No more wasted time carving out RAID groups, losing disk space, or wondering if your data is balanced... Let OneFS do the work for you! OneFS 6.5 is a major new software release that will significantly increase Isilon’s already more than capable systems and interoperability in the enterprise delivering an outstanding set of features This release dramatically enhances Isilon’s DR and business continuity offering with the much-anticipated introduction of SyncIQ 3.0. With OneFS 6.5 under the hood of Isilon\'s diverse offering of nodes, S- Series (High Performance), X-Series (Mid Tier Performance), and NL-Series (Archiving) we have a solution that can meet your needs. In short... These ARE the nodes you are looking for!</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><strong><span style=\"font-size: small\">What are the new Features? Here are just a few!</span></strong></li>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Global Namespace Acceleration: </strong>Isilon’s SmartPools feature allows customers to combine pools of different system types in the same cluster, all in a single file system, and to automatically migrate data among nodes with different performance and capacity characteristics so that data is always stored appropriately based on its value and how it needs to be accessed. In OneFS 6.5, Global Namespace Acceleration adds support in SmartPools for solid state drives. With Global Namespace Acceleration, a SmartPools environment can be configured to keep metadata or data on SSDs, and even to use SSDs in one part of the cluster to store metadata for systems that have no SSDs on board. The result is that critical SSD resources can be maximized to cost-effectively improve performance across a wide range of workflows</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Enhancements to Authentication, Identity Management, and Authorization: </strong>With OneFS 6.5, Isilon has made many enhancements to the configuration and management of Authentication, identity management, and authorization functions. OneFS 6.5 makes it much easier to configure and manage individuals’ access to and rights within multiple systems thanks to improvements such as support for multiple NIS/LDAP domains, user ID/system ID mapping, and Windows security descriptors.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>New SmartLock Delivers WORM Data Protection:</strong> SmartLock, Isilon’s latest feature, delivers write once read many (WORM) data protection against accidental, malicious, or premature alteration or deletion of data. The current implementation is an “Enterprise” feature, which is appropriate for data protection over time, is integrated with OneFS 6.5 features like SyncIQ 3.0 replication, and works with third-party backup, but is not certified as a compliance solution. This is a feature that I see that is common in healthcare, and more often than not I get more requests wanting to know if we can do this with Isilon than most anything else.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>SyncIQ 3.0: </strong>SyncIQ 3.0 adds integrated snapshots, a new performance enhancement that quickly identifies and replicates data, dramatically reducing time needed to protect the same amount of data. Integrated snapshots remove the need for time-consuming treewalks every time data is synchronized. Most workflows will see a significant improvement in the time it takes for their hourly, daily, weekly, or other syncs to complete, which means better overall system performance as well as improvements in recovery point objectives (RPOs) for disaster recovery applications.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>New Networking Performance Enhancements and Options: </strong>A new implementation of both Isilon’s NFS and SMB (CIFS) stacks brings performance and management benefits today and provide a strong foundation for additional improvements in future releases.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">NFS: Support for NFS v2, 3, and 4</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">Kerberized session support for NFSv3 and 4</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">SMB: Support for SMB1 (CIFS) and SMB2 with significant performance boosts</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">There are also several new front-end networking options available in OneFS 6.5. In addition to continuing support for Cisco Fast EtherChannel (FEC), OneFS 6.5 adds new support for Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP-IEEE 802.3ad), failover, round robin, and load balance.</span><span style=\"font-size: small\">  </span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>','Isilon: Something new is coming with \"Mavericks\" OneFS 6.5','','inherit','open','open','','6637-revision-12','','','2012-05-22 15:17:48','2012-05-22 15:17:48','',6637,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6637-revision-12',0,'revision','',0),(6652,44,'2012-05-22 15:19:14','2012-05-22 15:19:14','<span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">EMC’s Isilon is on the verge of its latest release of OneFS 6.5 code named “Mavericks”. With all of the buzz at EMC World this week there are bound to be some questions about what Mavericks means to Scale-Out-NAS users, so below is a breakdown of the new supported options and features including some info on what OneFS is to all the people that are new to Isilon. With the latest greatest features I think we are going to see a huge surge in NAS users seeking out Isilon not only because of what it offers from a feature standpoint but more importantly what it offers from an infrastructure standpoint…. Being able to scale storage at ease without taking a performance hit is an amazing thing!</span></span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">  More after the bump</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/isilon-droid.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-6641 aligncenter\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/isilon-droid-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"229\" /></a></span>\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>What is OneFS: </strong>OneFS is Isilon\'s sixth-generation operating system that provides the intelligence behind all Isilon scale-out NAS systems. It combines the three layers of traditional storage architectures—file system, volume manager, and RAID—into one unified software layer, creating a single intelligent file system that spans all nodes within a cluster. With OneFS 6.5, Isilon is able to deliver significant performance enhancements for Windows clients, integrated support for solid state drives (SSDs) within SmartPools, automated storage tiering, faster local and remote data replication, write once read many (WORM) data protection, and increased functionality and ease of management in heterogeneous environments.  </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: small\">What does this means to you? SIMPLE and EFFICIENT! No more wasted time carving out RAID groups, losing disk space, or wondering if your data is balanced... Let OneFS do the work for you! OneFS 6.5 is a major new software release that will significantly increase Isilon’s already more than capable systems and interoperability in the enterprise delivering an outstanding set of features This release dramatically enhances Isilon’s DR and business continuity offering with the much-anticipated introduction of SyncIQ 3.0. With OneFS 6.5 under the hood of Isilon\'s diverse offering of nodes, S- Series (High Performance), X-Series (Mid Tier Performance), and NL-Series (Archiving) we have a solution that can meet your needs. In short... <em>These ARE the nodes you are looking for!</em></span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><strong><span style=\"font-size: small\">What are the new Features? Here are just a few!</span></strong></li>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Global Namespace Acceleration: </strong>Isilon’s SmartPools feature allows customers to combine pools of different system types in the same cluster, all in a single file system, and to automatically migrate data among nodes with different performance and capacity characteristics so that data is always stored appropriately based on its value and how it needs to be accessed. In OneFS 6.5, Global Namespace Acceleration adds support in SmartPools for solid state drives. With Global Namespace Acceleration, a SmartPools environment can be configured to keep metadata or data on SSDs, and even to use SSDs in one part of the cluster to store metadata for systems that have no SSDs on board. The result is that critical SSD resources can be maximized to cost-effectively improve performance across a wide range of workflows</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Enhancements to Authentication, Identity Management, and Authorization: </strong>With OneFS 6.5, Isilon has made many enhancements to the configuration and management of Authentication, identity management, and authorization functions. OneFS 6.5 makes it much easier to configure and manage individuals’ access to and rights within multiple systems thanks to improvements such as support for multiple NIS/LDAP domains, user ID/system ID mapping, and Windows security descriptors.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>New SmartLock Delivers WORM Data Protection:</strong> SmartLock, Isilon’s latest feature, delivers write once read many (WORM) data protection against accidental, malicious, or premature alteration or deletion of data. The current implementation is an “Enterprise” feature, which is appropriate for data protection over time, is integrated with OneFS 6.5 features like SyncIQ 3.0 replication, and works with third-party backup, but is not certified as a compliance solution. This is a feature that I see that is common in healthcare, and more often than not I get more requests wanting to know if we can do this with Isilon than most anything else.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>SyncIQ 3.0: </strong>SyncIQ 3.0 adds integrated snapshots, a new performance enhancement that quickly identifies and replicates data, dramatically reducing time needed to protect the same amount of data. Integrated snapshots remove the need for time-consuming treewalks every time data is synchronized. Most workflows will see a significant improvement in the time it takes for their hourly, daily, weekly, or other syncs to complete, which means better overall system performance as well as improvements in recovery point objectives (RPOs) for disaster recovery applications.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>New Networking Performance Enhancements and Options: </strong>A new implementation of both Isilon’s NFS and SMB (CIFS) stacks brings performance and management benefits today and provide a strong foundation for additional improvements in future releases.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">NFS: Support for NFS v2, 3, and 4</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">Kerberized session support for NFSv3 and 4</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">SMB: Support for SMB1 (CIFS) and SMB2 with significant performance boosts</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">There are also several new front-end networking options available in OneFS 6.5. In addition to continuing support for Cisco Fast EtherChannel (FEC), OneFS 6.5 adds new support for Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP-IEEE 802.3ad), failover, round robin, and load balance.</span><span style=\"font-size: small\">  </span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>','Isilon: Something new is coming with \"Mavericks\" OneFS 6.5','','inherit','open','open','','6637-revision-13','','','2012-05-22 15:19:14','2012-05-22 15:19:14','',6637,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6637-revision-13',0,'revision','',0),(6653,44,'2012-05-23 22:06:25','2012-05-23 22:06:25','<span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">EMC’s Isilon is on the verge of its latest release of OneFS 7.0 code named “Mavericks”. With all of the buzz at EMC World this week there are bound to be some questions about what Mavericks means to Scale-Out-NAS users, so below is a breakdown of the new supported options and features including some info on what OneFS is to all the people that are new to Isilon. With the latest greatest features I think we are going to see a huge surge in NAS users seeking out Isilon not only because of what it offers from a feature standpoint but more importantly what it offers from an infrastructure standpoint…. Being able to scale storage at ease without taking a performance hit is an amazing thing!</span></span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">  More after the bump</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/isilon-droid.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-6641 aligncenter\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/isilon-droid-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"271\" /></a></span>\n\n<!--more-->\n\n<span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>What is OneFS: </strong>OneFS is Isilon\'s sixth-generation operating system that provides the intelligence behind all Isilon scale-out NAS systems. It combines the three layers of traditional storage architectures—file system, volume manager, and RAID—into one unified software layer, creating a single intelligent file system that spans all nodes within a cluster. With OneFS 7.0, Isilon is able to deliver significant performance enhancements for Windows clients, integrated support for solid state drives (SSDs) within SmartPools, automated storage tiering, faster local and remote data replication, write once read many (WORM) data protection, and increased functionality and ease of management in heterogeneous environments.  </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: small\">What does this means to you? SIMPLE and EFFICIENT! No more wasted time carving out RAID groups, losing disk space, or wondering if your data is balanced... Let OneFS do the work for you! OneFS 7.0 is a major new software release that will significantly increase Isilon’s already more than capable systems and interoperability in the enterprise delivering an outstanding set of features This release dramatically enhances Isilon’s DR and business continuity offering with the much-anticipated introduction of SyncIQ 3.0. With OneFS 7.0 under the hood of Isilon\'s diverse offering of nodes, S- Series (High Performance), X-Series (Mid Tier Performance), and NL-Series (Archiving) we have a solution that can meet your needs. In short... <em>These ARE the nodes you are looking for!</em></span>\n<ul>\n	<li><strong><span style=\"font-size: small\">What are the new Features? Here are just a few!</span></strong></li>\n<ul>\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Global Namespace Acceleration: </strong>Isilon’s SmartPools feature allows customers to combine pools of different system types in the same cluster, all in a single file system, and to automatically migrate data among nodes with different performance and capacity characteristics so that data is always stored appropriately based on its value and how it needs to be accessed. In OneFS 7.0, Global Namespace Acceleration adds support in SmartPools for solid state drives. With Global Namespace Acceleration, a SmartPools environment can be configured to keep metadata or data on SSDs, and even to use SSDs in one part of the cluster to store metadata for systems that have no SSDs on board. The result is that critical SSD resources can be maximized to cost-effectively improve performance across a wide range of workflows</span></li>\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Enhancements to Authentication, Identity Management, and Authorization: </strong>With OneFS 7.0, Isilon has made many enhancements to the configuration and management of Authentication, identity management, and authorization functions. OneFS 7.0 makes it much easier to configure and manage individuals’ access to and rights within multiple systems thanks to improvements such as support for multiple NIS/LDAP domains, user ID/system ID mapping, and Windows security descriptors.</span></li>\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>New SmartLock Delivers WORM Data Protection:</strong> SmartLock, Isilon’s latest feature, delivers write once read many (WORM) data protection against accidental, malicious, or premature alteration or deletion of data. The current implementation is an “Enterprise” feature, which is appropriate for data protection over time, is integrated with OneFS 7.0features like SyncIQ 3.0 replication, and works with third-party backup, but is not certified as a compliance solution. This is a feature that I see that is common in healthcare, and more often than not I get more requests wanting to know if we can do this with Isilon than most anything else.</span></li>\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>SyncIQ 3.0: </strong>SyncIQ 3.0 adds integrated snapshots, a new performance enhancement that quickly identifies and replicates data, dramatically reducing time needed to protect the same amount of data. Integrated snapshots remove the need for time-consuming treewalks every time data is synchronized. Most workflows will see a significant improvement in the time it takes for their hourly, daily, weekly, or other syncs to complete, which means better overall system performance as well as improvements in recovery point objectives (RPOs) for disaster recovery applications.</span></li>\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>New Networking Performance Enhancements and Options: </strong>A new implementation of both Isilon’s NFS and SMB (CIFS) stacks brings performance and management benefits today and provide a strong foundation for additional improvements in future releases.</span></li>\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">NFS: Support for NFS v2, 3, and 4</span></li>\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">Kerberized session support for NFSv3 and 4</span></li>\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">SMB: Support for SMB1 (CIFS) and SMB2 with significant performance boosts</span></li>\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">There are also several new front-end networking options available in OneFS 7.0. In addition to continuing support for Cisco Fast EtherChannel (FEC), OneFS 7.0 adds new support for Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP-IEEE 802.3ad), failover, round robin, and load balance.</span><span style=\"font-size: small\">  </span></li>\n</ul>\n</ul>\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>','Isilon: Something new is coming with \"Mavericks\" OneFS 7.0','','inherit','open','open','','6637-autosave','','','2012-05-23 22:06:25','2012-05-23 22:06:25','',6637,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6637-autosave',0,'revision','',0),(6654,44,'2012-05-22 15:19:35','2012-05-22 15:19:35','<span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">EMC’s Isilon is on the verge of its latest release of OneFS 6.5 code named “Mavericks”. With all of the buzz at EMC World this week there are bound to be some questions about what Mavericks means to Scale-Out-NAS users, so below is a breakdown of the new supported options and features including some info on what OneFS is to all the people that are new to Isilon. With the latest greatest features I think we are going to see a huge surge in NAS users seeking out Isilon not only because of what it offers from a feature standpoint but more importantly what it offers from an infrastructure standpoint…. Being able to scale storage at ease without taking a performance hit is an amazing thing!</span></span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">  More after the bump</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/isilon-droid.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-6641 aligncenter\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/isilon-droid-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"229\" /></a></span>\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>What is OneFS: </strong>OneFS is Isilon\'s sixth-generation operating system that provides the intelligence behind all Isilon scale-out NAS systems. It combines the three layers of traditional storage architectures—file system, volume manager, and RAID—into one unified software layer, creating a single intelligent file system that spans all nodes within a cluster. With OneFS 6.5, Isilon is able to deliver significant performance enhancements for Windows clients, integrated support for solid state drives (SSDs) within SmartPools, automated storage tiering, faster local and remote data replication, write once read many (WORM) data protection, and increased functionality and ease of management in heterogeneous environments.  </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: small\">What does this means to you? SIMPLE and EFFICIENT! No more wasted time carving out RAID groups, losing disk space, or wondering if your data is balanced... Let OneFS do the work for you! OneFS 6.5 is a major new software release that will significantly increase Isilon’s already more than capable systems and interoperability in the enterprise delivering an outstanding set of features This release dramatically enhances Isilon’s DR and business continuity offering with the much-anticipated introduction of SyncIQ 3.0. With OneFS 6.5 under the hood of Isilon\'s diverse offering of nodes, S- Series (High Performance), X-Series (Mid Tier Performance), and NL-Series (Archiving) we have a solution that can meet your needs. In short... <em>These ARE the nodes you are looking for!</em></span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><strong><span style=\"font-size: small\">What are the new Features? Here are just a few!</span></strong></li>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Global Namespace Acceleration: </strong>Isilon’s SmartPools feature allows customers to combine pools of different system types in the same cluster, all in a single file system, and to automatically migrate data among nodes with different performance and capacity characteristics so that data is always stored appropriately based on its value and how it needs to be accessed. In OneFS 6.5, Global Namespace Acceleration adds support in SmartPools for solid state drives. With Global Namespace Acceleration, a SmartPools environment can be configured to keep metadata or data on SSDs, and even to use SSDs in one part of the cluster to store metadata for systems that have no SSDs on board. The result is that critical SSD resources can be maximized to cost-effectively improve performance across a wide range of workflows</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Enhancements to Authentication, Identity Management, and Authorization: </strong>With OneFS 6.5, Isilon has made many enhancements to the configuration and management of Authentication, identity management, and authorization functions. OneFS 6.5 makes it much easier to configure and manage individuals’ access to and rights within multiple systems thanks to improvements such as support for multiple NIS/LDAP domains, user ID/system ID mapping, and Windows security descriptors.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>New SmartLock Delivers WORM Data Protection:</strong> SmartLock, Isilon’s latest feature, delivers write once read many (WORM) data protection against accidental, malicious, or premature alteration or deletion of data. The current implementation is an “Enterprise” feature, which is appropriate for data protection over time, is integrated with OneFS 6.5 features like SyncIQ 3.0 replication, and works with third-party backup, but is not certified as a compliance solution. This is a feature that I see that is common in healthcare, and more often than not I get more requests wanting to know if we can do this with Isilon than most anything else.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>SyncIQ 3.0: </strong>SyncIQ 3.0 adds integrated snapshots, a new performance enhancement that quickly identifies and replicates data, dramatically reducing time needed to protect the same amount of data. Integrated snapshots remove the need for time-consuming treewalks every time data is synchronized. Most workflows will see a significant improvement in the time it takes for their hourly, daily, weekly, or other syncs to complete, which means better overall system performance as well as improvements in recovery point objectives (RPOs) for disaster recovery applications.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>New Networking Performance Enhancements and Options: </strong>A new implementation of both Isilon’s NFS and SMB (CIFS) stacks brings performance and management benefits today and provide a strong foundation for additional improvements in future releases.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">NFS: Support for NFS v2, 3, and 4</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">Kerberized session support for NFSv3 and 4</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">SMB: Support for SMB1 (CIFS) and SMB2 with significant performance boosts</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">There are also several new front-end networking options available in OneFS 6.5. In addition to continuing support for Cisco Fast EtherChannel (FEC), OneFS 6.5 adds new support for Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP-IEEE 802.3ad), failover, round robin, and load balance.</span><span style=\"font-size: small\">  </span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>','Isilon: Something new is coming with \"Mavericks\" OneFS 6.5','','inherit','open','open','','6637-revision-14','','','2012-05-22 15:19:35','2012-05-22 15:19:35','',6637,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6637-revision-14',0,'revision','',0),(6655,44,'2012-05-22 18:47:56','2012-05-22 18:47:56','<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">With all the news releases at EMC World around Isilon with virtualization and the cloud, I thought it would be a good time to bring this article back up. Isilon is continuing to add more integration with VMware into its offering, with the recent past additions of integration and support of VMware\'s Site Recovery Manager and integration of Isilon into the vCenter client itself, Isilon has been making steady progress. However, with OneFS 7.0 they are now integrating VASA and VAAI supportability as well strengthening Isilon even further with customers who are running NFS for their VMware environment. So all that being said let’s take a look at why Isilon is a great fit for use in your VMware environment.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/before-and-after.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6668\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/before-and-after.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"245\" /></a></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Read more after the bump!</span>\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Server virtualization streamlines and maximizes your server resources. However, you must have a scalable storage platform to fully realize the economic benefits, flexibility and agility virtualization can provide. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">The Isilon IQ storage platform, powered by the OneFS® operating system, was designed from the ground up to reduce storage complexity. In a dynamic virtualized environment, Isilon Scale-out NAS eliminates the management complexity inherent in traditional SAN or scale-up NAS storage while increasing application availability and protection. With Isilon you can: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">1. <strong>Simplify</strong> storage management: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Consolidate and replace tens, hundreds, or thousands of volumes with a single namespace, single volume, and single file system to host thousands of virtual machines. With Isilon you can also consolidate virtualized and non-virtualized application storage with standard networking and file sharing protocols. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">2. Quickly <strong>adapt</strong> to change: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">In a dynamic environment where VMs are added daily, with Isilon you can non-disruptively scale storage and performance. When a storage node is added to an Isilon cluster the additional capacity, performance and connectivity is immediately available and shared across all virtualized data stores. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">3. Increase <strong>efficiency</strong> and <strong>productivity</strong>: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Achieve over 80% storage utilization without degrading performance. Our globally coherent cache and Isilon SmartConnect client load-balancing provide high-performance with rock-solid data protection, high availability and system resiliency. Eliminate complex storage management tasks, such as chasing hot-spots and migrating VMs across traditional SAN or scale-up NAS and focus on achieving the greatest gains from your virtualized server environment. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">4. Increase <strong>protection</strong> and disaster <strong>recovery</strong> in your virtualized environment: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Isilon provides a suite of integrated software applications for every level of your virtual environment to protect applications and data. With Isilon, you can non-disruptively set different protection policies, unlimited snapshot and replication schedules at the individual VM level, or across any number of data stores. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">5. Economic <strong>value</strong>: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">More than 1,000 Isilon customers have experienced significant savings and increased agility in their storage environment. 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Pleasant, SC - eGroup, Inc. today announced its EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure certification.  EMC\'s VSPEX Proven Infrastructure is a simple, efficient, and flexible reference architecture comprised of EMC’s award-winning storage systems and next-generation backup products, along with best-of-breed virtualization, server, and network technology from EMC alliance partners Brocade, Cisco, Citrix, Intel, Microsoft, and VMware.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe fourteen initial VSPEX configurations represent the most popular use cases for customers moving to cloud computing. These use cases are focused on enabling customers to accelerate deployment of private cloud and end user computing environments. For private cloud deployments customers have the option of running VMware vSphere 5.0 or Microsoft Windows Hyper-V from 50-250 virtual machines and for end-user computing deployments customers can choose between VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop® from 50 to 2000 virtual desktops. Full details are available on emc.com. Additional VSPEX configurations will be made available based on partner demand.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Proven Infrastructure is now available to partners in the EMC Velocity™ partner program. For the first time partners can fully leverage the EMC brand and industrial design in delivering VSPEX solutions to their customers. In addition EMC is providing VSPEX labs for partners to test, validate and demonstrate new VSPEX solutions.\r\n\r\n\"EMC VSPEX will enable eGroup to provide our customers with complete solutions that accelerate the deployment of virtualization and cloud offerings for small-to-medium businesses as well as the mid-enterprise market\", commented Mike Stokes, Director of Sales, eGroup.\r\n\r\n<strong>EMC VSPEX Customer Benefits</strong>\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Simple – VSPEX Proven Infrastructures deliver predictable performance that significantly reduces the planning, sizing and configuration burdens of adopting private cloud or end-user computing environments. In addition, EMC\'s validation of the VSPEX configuration greatly reduces deployment time. Finally, tight alignment with Windows Server Hyper-V and VMware vSphere cloud infrastructure provide customers a single point of management using System Center for Microsoft cloud and VMware vCenter™ Operations Management Suite for private cloud deployments.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Efficient – Built on EMC\'s award-winning VNX™ and VNXe™ unified storage systems and Avamar® and Data Domain® next-generation backup products, VSPEX provides customers with unmatched levels of efficiency. Leveraging technologies such as data deduplication, compression and Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST), customers can expect to significantly lower operational costs. By integrating these technologies tightly with the hypervisor and end-user computing environments, customers can also benefit from simpler administration and lower management costs.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Flexible – VSPEX allows customers to combine their choice of industry-leading server, network, and virtualization technologies into a proven infrastructure validated by EMC and built on a highly flexible EMC storage and backup infrastructure. Additionally, the customer\'s channel partner of choice – who understands the specific customer\'s requirements – can customize VSPEX to meet their needs.\r\n\r\nSince 1999, eGroup has provided innovative technology solutions to businesses across the Southeast. In addition to cloud services, eGroup focuses on application services and end-user computing. 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Pleasant, SC – May 22, 2012 – eGroup today announced it has received the EMC Velocity Services Quality Award from EMC Corporation during EMC World for achieving service delivery excellence and providing exemplary levels of customer satisfaction as demonstrated by the EMC Velocity Authorize Services Network Quality (ASNQ) program.\r\n\r\nThe ASNQ program is a project-specific survey program designed for EMC ASN partners to solicit customer feedback about the quality of their service engagements. The survey results enable partners to engage in a continuous improvement process, resulting in a higher level of professional services quality and customer satisfaction.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nMike Carter, Principal Consultant at eGroup states; “We are thrilled to again receive this award. 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To deliver these solutions, eGroup has strategic partnerships with industry leaders that include VMware, Cisco, and EMC, along with Citrix, Microsoft, and Trend Micro, and a highly-skilled workforce trained in all of the latest developments in information technology. To learn more, visit <a href=\"http://www.eGroup-us.com\">www.eGroup-us.com</a>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','eGROUP HONORED AS RECIPIENT OF 2012 EMC QUALITY AWARD AT EMC WORLD','','publish','open','open','','egroup-honored-as-recipient-of-2012-emc-quality-award-at-emc-world','','','2012-05-22 16:21:27','2012-05-22 16:21:27','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=6664',0,'post','',0),(6666,2,'2012-05-22 16:20:49','2012-05-22 16:20:49','Mt. Pleasant, SC – May 22, 2012 – eGroup today announced it has received the EMC Velocity Services Quality Award from EMC Corporation during EMC World for achieving service delivery excellence and providing exemplary levels of customer satisfaction as demonstrated by the EMC Velocity Authorize Services Network Quality (ASNQ) program.\n\nThe ASNQ program is a project-specific survey program designed for EMC ASN partners to solicit customer feedback about the quality of their service engagements. The survey results enable partners to engage in a continuous improvement process, resulting in a higher level of professional services quality and customer satisfaction.<!--more-->\n\nMike Carter, Principal Consultant at eGroup states; “We are very excited to receive this award. We invest in our people so we can provide the highest quality of professional services to our clients, and our reputation for quality work is our most valued asset.”\n\n“All of our Velocity ASN partners aim to deliver outstanding levels of customer service and embrace quality as a measurement of their customer’s total satisfaction,” said Brian Abernethy, Senior Manager, EMC Partner Services – Americas. “As an EMC Velocity Authorized Services Network Quality award winner, eGroup demonstrated leadership in service delivery quality and exemplified the high standards that EMC holds its own Global Services organization to.”\n\nThe Velocity ASN program members are a select community of Velocity partners from across the globe, authorized by EMC to deliver professional services that complement and extend EMC’s service offerings and expand EMC Global Services’ coverage capabilities.\n\nAbout eGroup\n\nProviding customers across the southeast with a distinct competitive advantage since 1999, eGroup is a visionary technology solutions and services firm with the ability to execute swiftly in a rapidly changing information technology landscape. eGroup’s solutions drive customers’ cost containment, revenue growth, and service objectives by addressing challenges associated with mobility, access to critical applications and data, and security. eGroup’s expertise and core competency is focused in three distinct areas: Cloud Services (public and private), Application Services, and End-User Computing. To deliver these solutions, eGroup has strategic partnerships with industry leaders that include VMware, Cisco, and EMC, along with Citrix, Microsoft, and Trend Micro, and a highly-skilled workforce trained in all of the latest developments in information technology. To learn more, visit <a href=\"http://www.eGroup-us.com\">www.eGroup-us.com</a>.\n\n&nbsp;','eGROUP HONORED AS RECIPIENT OF 2012 EMC QUALITY AWARD AT EMC WORLD','','inherit','open','open','','6664-revision-2','','','2012-05-22 16:20:49','2012-05-22 16:20:49','',6664,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6664-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(6665,2,'2012-05-22 16:16:03','2012-05-22 16:16:03','Mt. Pleasant, SC – May 22, 2012 – eGroup today announced it has received the EMC Authorized Services Network (ASN) Quality Award from EMC Corporation for achieving service delivery excellence and providing exemplary levels of customer satisfaction as demonstrated by the EMC Velocity Authorize Services Network Quality (ASNQ) program.\n\nThe ASNQ program is a project-specific survey program designed for EMC ASN partners to solicit customer feedback about the quality of their service engagements. The survey results enable partners to engage in a continuous improvement process, resulting in a higher level of professional services quality and customer satisfaction.\n\nMike Carter, Principal Consultant at eGroup states; “We are very excited to receive this award. We invest in our people so we can provide the highest quality of professional services to our clients, and our reputation for quality work is our most valued asset.”\n\n“All of our Velocity ASN partners aim to deliver outstanding levels of customer service and embrace quality as a measurement of their customer’s total satisfaction,” said Brian Abernethy, Senior Manager, EMC Partner Services – Americas. “As an EMC Velocity Authorized Services Network Quality award winner, eGroup demonstrated leadership in service delivery quality and exemplified the high standards that EMC holds its own Global Services organization to.”\n\nThe Velocity ASN program members are a select community of Velocity partners from across the globe, authorized by EMC to deliver professional services that complement and extend EMC’s service offerings and expand EMC Global Services’ coverage capabilities.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAbout eGroup:\n\n&nbsp;\n\neGroup provides technology solutions for Serious Competitors. Specifically, eGroup specializes in IT infrastructure design, Enterprise storage and backup strategies including Disaster Preparedness, data centralization and secure access solutions, virtualization, network security, and secure LAN/WAN/Wireless architectures. eGroup’s solutions combine robust high- availability and performance with secure information access. These solutions enable customers to efficiently execute revenue-driving roles, and achieve the goal of cutting the organization’s acquisition and on-going support costs. eGroup understands that investment-oriented professionals must focus on making sound business decisions that provide significant returns. eGroup provides the thought leadership and expertise for customers to ensure that their technology investments continue to strengthen their competitive advantage in the marketplace. After all, a company’s success hinges on making critical business decisions that must be supported by its IT systems. By architecting high performance networking and computing platforms, and delivering the industry-proven systems engineering and application development expertise, eGroup helps companies make confident decisions. To learn more, visit www.eGroup-us.com.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nLiz Wilmes, 843.284.0146, lwilmes@eGroup-us.com\n\n&nbsp;','eGROUP HONORED AS RECIPIENT OF 2012 EMC QUALITY AWARD AT EMC WORLD','','inherit','open','open','','6664-revision','','','2012-05-22 16:16:03','2012-05-22 16:16:03','',6664,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6664-revision',0,'revision','',0),(6668,44,'2012-05-22 18:45:26','2012-05-22 18:45:26','','before and after','','inherit','open','open','','before-and-after','','','2012-05-22 18:45:26','2012-05-22 18:45:26','',6655,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/before-and-after.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(6669,44,'2012-05-22 18:41:45','2012-05-22 18:41:45','<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">With all the news releases at EMC World around Isilon with virtualization and the cloud, I thought it would be a good time to bring this article back up. Isilon is continuing to add more integration with VMware into its offering, with the recent past additions of integration and support of VMware\'s Site Recovery Manager and integration of Isilon into the vCenter client itself, Isilon has been making steady progress. However, with OneFS 6.5 they are now integrating VASA and VAAI supportability as well strengthening Isilon even further with customers who are running NFS for their VMware environment. So all that being said let’s take a look at why Isilon is a great fit for use in your VMware environment.</span>\n\n<!--more-->\n\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Server virtualization streamlines and maximizes your server resources. However, you must have a scalable storage platform to fully realize the economic benefits, flexibility and agility virtualization can provide. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">The Isilon IQ storage platform, powered by the OneFS® operating system, was designed from the ground up to reduce storage complexity. In a dynamic virtualized environment, Isilon Scale-out NAS eliminates the management complexity inherent in traditional SAN or scale-up NAS storage while increasing application availability and protection. With Isilon you can: </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">1. <strong>Simplify</strong> storage management: </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Consolidate and replace tens, hundreds, or thousands of volumes with a single namespace, single volume, and single file system to host thousands of virtual machines. With Isilon you can also consolidate virtualized and non-virtualized application storage with standard networking and file sharing protocols. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">2. Quickly <strong>adapt</strong> to change: </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">In a dynamic environment where VMs are added daily, with Isilon you can non-disruptively scale storage and performance. When a storage node is added to an Isilon cluster the additional capacity, performance and connectivity is immediately available and shared across all virtualized data stores. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">3. Increase <strong>efficiency</strong> and <strong>productivity</strong>: </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Achieve over 80% storage utilization without degrading performance. Our globally coherent cache and Isilon SmartConnect client load-balancing provide high-performance with rock-solid data protection, high availability and system resiliency. Eliminate complex storage management tasks, such as chasing hot-spots and migrating VMs across traditional SAN or scale-up NAS and focus on achieving the greatest gains from your virtualized server environment. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">4. Increase <strong>protection</strong> and disaster <strong>recovery</strong> in your virtualized environment: </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Isilon provides a suite of integrated software applications for every level of your virtual environment to protect applications and data. With Isilon, you can non-disruptively set different protection policies, unlimited snapshot and replication schedules at the individual VM level, or across any number of data stores. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">5. Economic <strong>value</strong>: </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">More than 1,000 Isilon customers have experienced significant savings and increased agility in their storage environment. With an intuitive, easy to use, single file system, you can reduce time spent on storage management—from days and weeks to minutes</span>\n\n&nbsp;','Isilon: Top 5 Reasons to choose Isilon for VMware','','inherit','open','open','','6655-revision','','','2012-05-22 18:41:45','2012-05-22 18:41:45','',6655,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6655-revision',0,'revision','',0),(6670,44,'2012-05-22 18:45:53','2012-05-22 18:45:53','<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">With all the news releases at EMC World around Isilon with virtualization and the cloud, I thought it would be a good time to bring this article back up. Isilon is continuing to add more integration with VMware into its offering, with the recent past additions of integration and support of VMware\'s Site Recovery Manager and integration of Isilon into the vCenter client itself, Isilon has been making steady progress. However, with OneFS 6.5 they are now integrating VASA and VAAI supportability as well strengthening Isilon even further with customers who are running NFS for their VMware environment. So all that being said let’s take a look at why Isilon is a great fit for use in your VMware environment.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/before-and-after.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6668\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/before-and-after-300x136.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"136\" /></a></span>\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Server virtualization streamlines and maximizes your server resources. However, you must have a scalable storage platform to fully realize the economic benefits, flexibility and agility virtualization can provide. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">The Isilon IQ storage platform, powered by the OneFS® operating system, was designed from the ground up to reduce storage complexity. In a dynamic virtualized environment, Isilon Scale-out NAS eliminates the management complexity inherent in traditional SAN or scale-up NAS storage while increasing application availability and protection. With Isilon you can: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">1. <strong>Simplify</strong> storage management: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Consolidate and replace tens, hundreds, or thousands of volumes with a single namespace, single volume, and single file system to host thousands of virtual machines. With Isilon you can also consolidate virtualized and non-virtualized application storage with standard networking and file sharing protocols. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">2. Quickly <strong>adapt</strong> to change: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">In a dynamic environment where VMs are added daily, with Isilon you can non-disruptively scale storage and performance. When a storage node is added to an Isilon cluster the additional capacity, performance and connectivity is immediately available and shared across all virtualized data stores. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">3. Increase <strong>efficiency</strong> and <strong>productivity</strong>: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Achieve over 80% storage utilization without degrading performance. Our globally coherent cache and Isilon SmartConnect client load-balancing provide high-performance with rock-solid data protection, high availability and system resiliency. Eliminate complex storage management tasks, such as chasing hot-spots and migrating VMs across traditional SAN or scale-up NAS and focus on achieving the greatest gains from your virtualized server environment. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">4. Increase <strong>protection</strong> and disaster <strong>recovery</strong> in your virtualized environment: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Isilon provides a suite of integrated software applications for every level of your virtual environment to protect applications and data. With Isilon, you can non-disruptively set different protection policies, unlimited snapshot and replication schedules at the individual VM level, or across any number of data stores. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">5. Economic <strong>value</strong>: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">More than 1,000 Isilon customers have experienced significant savings and increased agility in their storage environment. With an intuitive, easy to use, single file system, you can reduce time spent on storage management—from days and weeks to minutes</span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Isilon: Top 5 Reasons to choose Isilon for VMware','','inherit','open','open','','6655-revision-2','','','2012-05-22 18:45:53','2012-05-22 18:45:53','',6655,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6655-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(6671,44,'2012-05-22 18:45:58','2012-05-22 18:45:58','<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">With all the news releases at EMC World around Isilon with virtualization and the cloud, I thought it would be a good time to bring this article back up. Isilon is continuing to add more integration with VMware into its offering, with the recent past additions of integration and support of VMware\'s Site Recovery Manager and integration of Isilon into the vCenter client itself, Isilon has been making steady progress. However, with OneFS 6.5 they are now integrating VASA and VAAI supportability as well strengthening Isilon even further with customers who are running NFS for their VMware environment. So all that being said let’s take a look at why Isilon is a great fit for use in your VMware environment.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/before-and-after.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6668\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/before-and-after-300x136.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"136\" /></a></span>\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Server virtualization streamlines and maximizes your server resources. However, you must have a scalable storage platform to fully realize the economic benefits, flexibility and agility virtualization can provide. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">The Isilon IQ storage platform, powered by the OneFS® operating system, was designed from the ground up to reduce storage complexity. In a dynamic virtualized environment, Isilon Scale-out NAS eliminates the management complexity inherent in traditional SAN or scale-up NAS storage while increasing application availability and protection. With Isilon you can: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">1. <strong>Simplify</strong> storage management: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Consolidate and replace tens, hundreds, or thousands of volumes with a single namespace, single volume, and single file system to host thousands of virtual machines. With Isilon you can also consolidate virtualized and non-virtualized application storage with standard networking and file sharing protocols. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">2. Quickly <strong>adapt</strong> to change: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">In a dynamic environment where VMs are added daily, with Isilon you can non-disruptively scale storage and performance. When a storage node is added to an Isilon cluster the additional capacity, performance and connectivity is immediately available and shared across all virtualized data stores. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">3. Increase <strong>efficiency</strong> and <strong>productivity</strong>: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Achieve over 80% storage utilization without degrading performance. Our globally coherent cache and Isilon SmartConnect client load-balancing provide high-performance with rock-solid data protection, high availability and system resiliency. Eliminate complex storage management tasks, such as chasing hot-spots and migrating VMs across traditional SAN or scale-up NAS and focus on achieving the greatest gains from your virtualized server environment. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">4. Increase <strong>protection</strong> and disaster <strong>recovery</strong> in your virtualized environment: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Isilon provides a suite of integrated software applications for every level of your virtual environment to protect applications and data. With Isilon, you can non-disruptively set different protection policies, unlimited snapshot and replication schedules at the individual VM level, or across any number of data stores. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">5. Economic <strong>value</strong>: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">More than 1,000 Isilon customers have experienced significant savings and increased agility in their storage environment. With an intuitive, easy to use, single file system, you can reduce time spent on storage management—from days and weeks to minutes</span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Isilon: Top 5 Reasons to choose Isilon for VMware','','inherit','open','open','','6655-revision-3','','','2012-05-22 18:45:58','2012-05-22 18:45:58','',6655,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6655-revision-3',0,'revision','',0),(6672,44,'2012-05-22 18:46:23','2012-05-22 18:46:23','<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">With all the news releases at EMC World around Isilon with virtualization and the cloud, I thought it would be a good time to bring this article back up. Isilon is continuing to add more integration with VMware into its offering, with the recent past additions of integration and support of VMware\'s Site Recovery Manager and integration of Isilon into the vCenter client itself, Isilon has been making steady progress. However, with OneFS 6.5 they are now integrating VASA and VAAI supportability as well strengthening Isilon even further with customers who are running NFS for their VMware environment. So all that being said let’s take a look at why Isilon is a great fit for use in your VMware environment.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/before-and-after.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6668\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/before-and-after-300x136.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"279\" /></a></span>\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Server virtualization streamlines and maximizes your server resources. However, you must have a scalable storage platform to fully realize the economic benefits, flexibility and agility virtualization can provide. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">The Isilon IQ storage platform, powered by the OneFS® operating system, was designed from the ground up to reduce storage complexity. In a dynamic virtualized environment, Isilon Scale-out NAS eliminates the management complexity inherent in traditional SAN or scale-up NAS storage while increasing application availability and protection. With Isilon you can: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">1. <strong>Simplify</strong> storage management: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Consolidate and replace tens, hundreds, or thousands of volumes with a single namespace, single volume, and single file system to host thousands of virtual machines. With Isilon you can also consolidate virtualized and non-virtualized application storage with standard networking and file sharing protocols. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">2. Quickly <strong>adapt</strong> to change: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">In a dynamic environment where VMs are added daily, with Isilon you can non-disruptively scale storage and performance. When a storage node is added to an Isilon cluster the additional capacity, performance and connectivity is immediately available and shared across all virtualized data stores. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">3. Increase <strong>efficiency</strong> and <strong>productivity</strong>: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Achieve over 80% storage utilization without degrading performance. Our globally coherent cache and Isilon SmartConnect client load-balancing provide high-performance with rock-solid data protection, high availability and system resiliency. Eliminate complex storage management tasks, such as chasing hot-spots and migrating VMs across traditional SAN or scale-up NAS and focus on achieving the greatest gains from your virtualized server environment. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">4. Increase <strong>protection</strong> and disaster <strong>recovery</strong> in your virtualized environment: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Isilon provides a suite of integrated software applications for every level of your virtual environment to protect applications and data. With Isilon, you can non-disruptively set different protection policies, unlimited snapshot and replication schedules at the individual VM level, or across any number of data stores. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">5. Economic <strong>value</strong>: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">More than 1,000 Isilon customers have experienced significant savings and increased agility in their storage environment. With an intuitive, easy to use, single file system, you can reduce time spent on storage management—from days and weeks to minutes</span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Isilon: Top 5 Reasons to choose Isilon for VMware','','inherit','open','open','','6655-revision-4','','','2012-05-22 18:46:23','2012-05-22 18:46:23','',6655,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6655-revision-4',0,'revision','',0),(6673,44,'2012-05-22 18:47:06','2012-05-22 18:47:06','<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">With all the news releases at EMC World around Isilon with virtualization and the cloud, I thought it would be a good time to bring this article back up. Isilon is continuing to add more integration with VMware into its offering, with the recent past additions of integration and support of VMware\'s Site Recovery Manager and integration of Isilon into the vCenter client itself, Isilon has been making steady progress. However, with OneFS 6.5 they are now integrating VASA and VAAI supportability as well strengthening Isilon even further with customers who are running NFS for their VMware environment. So all that being said let’s take a look at why Isilon is a great fit for use in your VMware environment.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/before-and-after.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6668\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/before-and-after.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"326\" /></a></span>\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Server virtualization streamlines and maximizes your server resources. However, you must have a scalable storage platform to fully realize the economic benefits, flexibility and agility virtualization can provide. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">The Isilon IQ storage platform, powered by the OneFS® operating system, was designed from the ground up to reduce storage complexity. In a dynamic virtualized environment, Isilon Scale-out NAS eliminates the management complexity inherent in traditional SAN or scale-up NAS storage while increasing application availability and protection. With Isilon you can: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">1. <strong>Simplify</strong> storage management: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Consolidate and replace tens, hundreds, or thousands of volumes with a single namespace, single volume, and single file system to host thousands of virtual machines. With Isilon you can also consolidate virtualized and non-virtualized application storage with standard networking and file sharing protocols. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">2. Quickly <strong>adapt</strong> to change: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">In a dynamic environment where VMs are added daily, with Isilon you can non-disruptively scale storage and performance. When a storage node is added to an Isilon cluster the additional capacity, performance and connectivity is immediately available and shared across all virtualized data stores. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">3. Increase <strong>efficiency</strong> and <strong>productivity</strong>: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Achieve over 80% storage utilization without degrading performance. Our globally coherent cache and Isilon SmartConnect client load-balancing provide high-performance with rock-solid data protection, high availability and system resiliency. Eliminate complex storage management tasks, such as chasing hot-spots and migrating VMs across traditional SAN or scale-up NAS and focus on achieving the greatest gains from your virtualized server environment. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">4. Increase <strong>protection</strong> and disaster <strong>recovery</strong> in your virtualized environment: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Isilon provides a suite of integrated software applications for every level of your virtual environment to protect applications and data. With Isilon, you can non-disruptively set different protection policies, unlimited snapshot and replication schedules at the individual VM level, or across any number of data stores. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">5. Economic <strong>value</strong>: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">More than 1,000 Isilon customers have experienced significant savings and increased agility in their storage environment. With an intuitive, easy to use, single file system, you can reduce time spent on storage management—from days and weeks to minutes</span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Isilon: Top 5 Reasons to choose Isilon for VMware','','inherit','open','open','','6655-revision-5','','','2012-05-22 18:47:06','2012-05-22 18:47:06','',6655,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6655-revision-5',0,'revision','',0),(6674,44,'2012-05-22 18:47:16','2012-05-22 18:47:16','<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">With all the news releases at EMC World around Isilon with virtualization and the cloud, I thought it would be a good time to bring this article back up. Isilon is continuing to add more integration with VMware into its offering, with the recent past additions of integration and support of VMware\'s Site Recovery Manager and integration of Isilon into the vCenter client itself, Isilon has been making steady progress. However, with OneFS 6.5 they are now integrating VASA and VAAI supportability as well strengthening Isilon even further with customers who are running NFS for their VMware environment. So all that being said let’s take a look at why Isilon is a great fit for use in your VMware environment.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/before-and-after.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6668\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/before-and-after.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"266\" /></a></span>\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Server virtualization streamlines and maximizes your server resources. However, you must have a scalable storage platform to fully realize the economic benefits, flexibility and agility virtualization can provide. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">The Isilon IQ storage platform, powered by the OneFS® operating system, was designed from the ground up to reduce storage complexity. In a dynamic virtualized environment, Isilon Scale-out NAS eliminates the management complexity inherent in traditional SAN or scale-up NAS storage while increasing application availability and protection. With Isilon you can: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">1. <strong>Simplify</strong> storage management: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Consolidate and replace tens, hundreds, or thousands of volumes with a single namespace, single volume, and single file system to host thousands of virtual machines. With Isilon you can also consolidate virtualized and non-virtualized application storage with standard networking and file sharing protocols. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">2. Quickly <strong>adapt</strong> to change: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">In a dynamic environment where VMs are added daily, with Isilon you can non-disruptively scale storage and performance. When a storage node is added to an Isilon cluster the additional capacity, performance and connectivity is immediately available and shared across all virtualized data stores. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">3. Increase <strong>efficiency</strong> and <strong>productivity</strong>: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Achieve over 80% storage utilization without degrading performance. Our globally coherent cache and Isilon SmartConnect client load-balancing provide high-performance with rock-solid data protection, high availability and system resiliency. Eliminate complex storage management tasks, such as chasing hot-spots and migrating VMs across traditional SAN or scale-up NAS and focus on achieving the greatest gains from your virtualized server environment. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">4. Increase <strong>protection</strong> and disaster <strong>recovery</strong> in your virtualized environment: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Isilon provides a suite of integrated software applications for every level of your virtual environment to protect applications and data. With Isilon, you can non-disruptively set different protection policies, unlimited snapshot and replication schedules at the individual VM level, or across any number of data stores. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">5. Economic <strong>value</strong>: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">More than 1,000 Isilon customers have experienced significant savings and increased agility in their storage environment. With an intuitive, easy to use, single file system, you can reduce time spent on storage management—from days and weeks to minutes</span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Isilon: Top 5 Reasons to choose Isilon for VMware','','inherit','open','open','','6655-revision-6','','','2012-05-22 18:47:16','2012-05-22 18:47:16','',6655,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6655-revision-6',0,'revision','',0),(6675,44,'2012-05-23 22:07:43','2012-05-23 22:07:43','<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">With all the news releases at EMC World around Isilon with virtualization and the cloud, I thought it would be a good time to bring this article back up. Isilon is continuing to add more integration with VMware into its offering, with the recent past additions of integration and support of VMware\'s Site Recovery Manager and integration of Isilon into the vCenter client itself, Isilon has been making steady progress. However, with OneFS 7.0 they are now integrating VASA and VAAI supportability as well strengthening Isilon even further with customers who are running NFS for their VMware environment. So all that being said let’s take a look at why Isilon is a great fit for use in your VMware environment.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/before-and-after.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6668\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/before-and-after.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"245\" /></a></span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Read more after the bump!</span>\n\n<!--more-->\n\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Server virtualization streamlines and maximizes your server resources. However, you must have a scalable storage platform to fully realize the economic benefits, flexibility and agility virtualization can provide. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">The Isilon IQ storage platform, powered by the OneFS® operating system, was designed from the ground up to reduce storage complexity. In a dynamic virtualized environment, Isilon Scale-out NAS eliminates the management complexity inherent in traditional SAN or scale-up NAS storage while increasing application availability and protection. With Isilon you can: </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">1. <strong>Simplify</strong> storage management: </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Consolidate and replace tens, hundreds, or thousands of volumes with a single namespace, single volume, and single file system to host thousands of virtual machines. With Isilon you can also consolidate virtualized and non-virtualized application storage with standard networking and file sharing protocols. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">2. Quickly <strong>adapt</strong> to change: </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">In a dynamic environment where VMs are added daily, with Isilon you can non-disruptively scale storage and performance. When a storage node is added to an Isilon cluster the additional capacity, performance and connectivity is immediately available and shared across all virtualized data stores. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">3. Increase <strong>efficiency</strong> and <strong>productivity</strong>: </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Achieve over 80% storage utilization without degrading performance. Our globally coherent cache and Isilon SmartConnect client load-balancing provide high-performance with rock-solid data protection, high availability and system resiliency. Eliminate complex storage management tasks, such as chasing hot-spots and migrating VMs across traditional SAN or scale-up NAS and focus on achieving the greatest gains from your virtualized server environment. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">4. Increase <strong>protection</strong> and disaster <strong>recovery</strong> in your virtualized environment: </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Isilon provides a suite of integrated software applications for every level of your virtual environment to protect applications and data. With Isilon, you can non-disruptively set different protection policies, unlimited snapshot and replication schedules at the individual VM level, or across any number of data stores. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">5. Economic <strong>value</strong>: </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">More than 1,000 Isilon customers have experienced significant savings and increased agility in their storage environment. With an intuitive, easy to use, single file system, you can reduce time spent on storage management—from days and weeks to minutes</span>\n\n&nbsp;','Isilon: Top 5 Reasons to choose Isilon for VMware','','inherit','open','open','','6655-autosave','','','2012-05-23 22:07:43','2012-05-23 22:07:43','',6655,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6655-autosave',0,'revision','',0),(6769,2,'2012-06-07 20:27:49','2012-06-07 20:27:49','','Registration Now Open: Myrtle Beach VMUG Meeting','','inherit','open','open','','6767-revision-2','','','2012-06-07 20:27:49','2012-06-07 20:27:49','',6767,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6767-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(6728,2,'2012-05-30 13:21:42','2012-05-30 13:21:42','Please register for the VMworld site and vote for #1919, 1923, 2139, and 2235!\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://tinyurl.com/76wdalt\">http://tinyurl.com/76wdalt</a>\r\n\r\nZimbra success story with Williams and fudge #1919\r\nView success story with Williams and fudge #1923\r\nThinApp on xenapp success story with SCJD #2139\r\nThinApp AppFactory deep dive and live demo #2235','VMWORLD SESSION ABSTRACTS FOR eGROUP ACCEPTED FOR PUBLIC VOTING!','','publish','open','open','','vmworld-session-abstracts-for-egroup-accepted-for-public-voting','','','2012-05-30 13:23:59','2012-05-30 13:23:59','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=6728',0,'post','',0),(6678,22,'2012-05-23 04:17:12','2012-05-23 04:17:12','Having strange issues with your Win 7 linked clones or manual desktops?  I was!  Apparently there is a small bug in the VMXNET3 setup with Windows 7 and Windows 2008.\r\n\r\nAccording to VMware, \"This issue occurs due to the way the VMXNET 3 adapter is added. The Windows 7 guest operating system identifies the adapter as a new device and does not properly install the driver during the cloning process.\"\r\n\r\n#Fail\r\n\r\nThere is a special patch available for download directly from Microsoft and the full links to the information are available on this VMware KB article from April 25, 2012: <a href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2007319\" target=\"_blank\">http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2007319</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Stay tuned to more posts in this series about VMware View 5.1 \"Lessons Learned\" by following along with the tag: <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/tag/vmware-view-5.1\">VMware View 5.1</a></em>\r\n\r\n<em>Phillip Reynolds is a guest blogger.  You can also follow him on twitter: <a href=\"http://twitter.com/philvirtual\" target=\"_blank\">@philvirtual</a></em>','View 5.1 Tips:  VMXNET3 bug','','publish','open','open','','view-5-1-tips-vmxnet3-bug','','','2012-05-23 04:39:27','2012-05-23 04:39:27','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=6678',0,'post','',0),(6679,22,'2012-05-23 04:17:03','2012-05-23 04:17:03','Having strange issues with your Win 7 linked clones or manual desktops?  I was!  Apparently there is a small bug in the VMXNET3 setup with Windows 7 and Windows 2008.\n\nAccording to VMware, \"This issue occurs due to the way the VMXNET 3 adapter is added. The Windows 7 guest operating system identifies the adapter as a new device and does not properly install the driver during the cloning process.\"\n\n#Fail\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThere is a special patch available for download directly from Microsoft and the full links to the information are available on this VMware KB article from April 25, 2012:\n\nhttp://kb.vmware.com/kb/2007319\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nStay tuned to more posts in this series about VMware View 5.1 \"Lessons Learned\" by following along with the tag: <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/tag/vmware-view-5.1\">VMware View 5.1</a>','View 5.1 Tips:  VMXNET3 bug','','inherit','open','open','','6678-revision','','','2012-05-23 04:17:03','2012-05-23 04:17:03','',6678,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6678-revision',0,'revision','',0),(6680,22,'2012-05-23 04:17:12','2012-05-23 04:17:12','Having strange issues with your Win 7 linked clones or manual desktops?  I was!  Apparently there is a small bug in the VMXNET3 setup with Windows 7 and Windows 2008.\r\n\r\nAccording to VMware, \"This issue occurs due to the way the VMXNET 3 adapter is added. The Windows 7 guest operating system identifies the adapter as a new device and does not properly install the driver during the cloning process.\"\r\n\r\n#Fail\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThere is a special patch available for download directly from Microsoft and the full links to the information are available on this VMware KB article from April 25, 2012:\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2007319\" target=\"_blank\">http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2007319</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nStay tuned to more posts in this series about VMware View 5.1 \"Lessons Learned\" by following along with the tag: <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/tag/vmware-view-5.1\">VMware View 5.1</a>','View 5.1 Tips:  VMXNET3 bug','','inherit','open','open','','6678-revision-2','','','2012-05-23 04:17:12','2012-05-23 04:17:12','',6678,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6678-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(6681,22,'2012-05-23 04:40:31','2012-05-23 04:40:31','Having strange issues with your Win 7 linked clones or manual desktops?  I was!  Apparently there is a small bug in the VMXNET3 setup with Windows 7 and Windows 2008.\n\nAccording to VMware, \"This issue occurs due to the way the VMXNET 3 adapter is added. The Windows 7 guest operating system identifies the adapter as a new device and does not properly install the driver during the cloning process.\"\n\n#Fail\n\nThere is a special patch available for download directly from Microsoft and the full links to the information are available on this VMware KB article from April 25, 2012: <a href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2007319\" target=\"_blank\">http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2007319</a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>Stay tuned to more posts in this series about VMware View 5.1 \"Lessons Learned\" by following along with the tag: <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/tag/vmware-view-5.1\">VMware View 5.1</a></em>\n\n<em>Phillip Reynolds is a guest blogger.  You can also follow him on twitter: <a href=\"http://twitter.com/philvirtual\" target=\"_blank\">@philvirtual</a></em>','View 5.1 Tips:  VMXNET3 bug','','inherit','open','open','','6678-autosave','','','2012-05-23 04:40:31','2012-05-23 04:40:31','',6678,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6678-autosave',0,'revision','',0),(6682,22,'2012-05-23 04:18:34','2012-05-23 04:18:34','Having strange issues with your Win 7 linked clones or manual desktops?  I was!  Apparently there is a small bug in the VMXNET3 setup with Windows 7 and Windows 2008.\r\n\r\nAccording to VMware, \"This issue occurs due to the way the VMXNET 3 adapter is added. The Windows 7 guest operating system identifies the adapter as a new device and does not properly install the driver during the cloning process.\"\r\n\r\n#Fail\r\n\r\nThere is a special patch available for download directly from Microsoft and the full links to the information are available on this VMware KB article from April 25, 2012: <a href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2007319\" target=\"_blank\">http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2007319</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Stay tuned to more posts in this series about VMware View 5.1 \"Lessons Learned\" by following along with the tag: <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/tag/vmware-view-5.1\">VMware View 5.1</a></em>','View 5.1 Tips:  VMXNET3 bug','','inherit','open','open','','6678-revision-3','','','2012-05-23 04:18:34','2012-05-23 04:18:34','',6678,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6678-revision-3',0,'revision','',0),(6683,22,'2012-05-23 04:37:27','2012-05-23 04:37:27','Having strange issues with your Win 7 linked clones or manual desktops?  I was!  Apparently there is a small bug in the VMXNET3 setup with Windows 7 and Windows 2008.\r\n\r\nAccording to VMware, \"This issue occurs due to the way the VMXNET 3 adapter is added. The Windows 7 guest operating system identifies the adapter as a new device and does not properly install the driver during the cloning process.\"\r\n\r\n#Fail\r\n\r\nThere is a special patch available for download directly from Microsoft and the full links to the information are available on this VMware KB article from April 25, 2012: <a href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2007319\" target=\"_blank\">http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2007319</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Stay tuned to more posts in this series about VMware View 5.1 \"Lessons Learned\" by following along with the tag: <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/tag/vmware-view-5.1\">VMware View 5.1</a></em>','View 5.1 Tips:  VMXNET3 bug','','inherit','open','open','','6678-revision-4','','','2012-05-23 04:37:27','2012-05-23 04:37:27','',6678,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6678-revision-4',0,'revision','',0),(6684,22,'2012-05-23 04:38:35','2012-05-23 04:38:35','Having strange issues with your Win 7 linked clones or manual desktops?  I was!  Apparently there is a small bug in the VMXNET3 setup with Windows 7 and Windows 2008.\r\n\r\nAccording to VMware, \"This issue occurs due to the way the VMXNET 3 adapter is added. The Windows 7 guest operating system identifies the adapter as a new device and does not properly install the driver during the cloning process.\"\r\n\r\n#Fail\r\n\r\nThere is a special patch available for download directly from Microsoft and the full links to the information are available on this VMware KB article from April 25, 2012: <a href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2007319\" target=\"_blank\">http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2007319</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Stay tuned to more posts in this series about VMware View 5.1 \"Lessons Learned\" by following along with the tag: <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/tag/vmware-view-5.1\">VMware View 5.1</a></em>\r\n\r\n<em>Phillip Reynolds is a guest blogger for eGroup and works in Rock Hill, SC.  You can also follow him on twitter: <a href=\"http://twitter.com/philvirtual\" target=\"_blank\">@philvirtual</a></em>','View 5.1 Tips:  VMXNET3 bug','','inherit','open','open','','6678-revision-5','','','2012-05-23 04:38:35','2012-05-23 04:38:35','',6678,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6678-revision-5',0,'revision','',0),(6685,22,'2012-05-23 04:53:29','2012-05-23 04:53:29','I\'ve had some issues with the transition to VMware View 5.1 in regards to performance and display problems.  Through KB Articles and the VMware support engineer, I\'ve learned some valuable information about the VMware View Agent.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Install the View Agent LAST after you setup your vm, install applications, do windows updates, and get the VM the way you want it.</li>\r\n	<li>If you are running Windows Updates on your View desktop, you should make it a habit to reinstall the View Agent each time -- you never know what the updates might have screwed up.  And NEVER have Windows Updates set to automatic on View!</li>\r\n	<li>Need to clone your parent VM for some reason?  Uninstall the View Agent before making the clone.</li>\r\n	<li>If you\'re uninstalling the View Agent, check the registry after you reboot to make sure it is completely gone before you reinstall the View Agent:  HKLM\\Software\\VMware Inc.  You should not have a View Composer or VMware VDM folder anymore. *BE CAREFUL!*</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n**These are just my own personal suggestions.  Be very careful and make sure you have backups before editing the registry!  YMMV (Your mileage may vary!)**\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Stay tuned to more posts in this series about VMware View 5.1 “Lessons Learned” by following along with the tag: <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/tag/vmware-view-5.1\">VMware View 5.1</a></em>\r\n\r\n<em>Phillip Reynolds is a guest blogger.  You can also follow him on twitter: <a href=\"http://twitter.com/philvirtual\" target=\"_blank\">@philvirtual</a></em>','View 5.1 Tips:  View Agent','','publish','open','open','','view-5-1-tips-view-agent','','','2012-05-23 04:53:29','2012-05-23 04:53:29','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=6685',0,'post','',0),(6686,22,'2012-05-23 04:53:13','2012-05-23 04:53:13','I\'ve had some issues with the transition to VMware View 5.1 in regards to performance and display problems.  Through KB Articles and the VMware support engineer, I\'ve learned some valuable information about the VMware View Agent.\n<ul>\n	<li>Install the View Agent LAST after you setup your vm, install applications, do windows updates, and get the VM the way you want it.</li>\n	<li>If you are running Windows Updates on your View desktop, you should make it a habit to reinstall the View Agent each time -- you never know what the updates might have screwed up.  And NEVER have Windows Updates set to automatic on View!</li>\n	<li>Need to clone your parent VM for some reason?  Uninstall the View Agent before making the clone.</li>\n	<li>If you\'re uninstalling the View Agent, check the registry after you reboot to make sure it is completely gone before you reinstall the View Agent:  HKLM\\Software\\VMware Inc.  You should not have a View Composer or VMware VDM folder anymore. *BE CAREFUL!*</li>\n</ul>\n**These are just my own personal suggestions.  Be very careful and make sure you have backups before editing the registry!  YMMV (Your mileage may vary!)**\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>Stay tuned to more posts in this series about VMware View 5.1 “Lessons Learned” by following along with the tag: <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/tag/vmware-view-5.1\">VMware View 5.1</a></em>\n\n<em>Phillip Reynolds is a guest blogger.  You can also follow him on twitter: <a href=\"http://twitter.com/philvirtual\" target=\"_blank\">@philvirtual</a></em>','View 5.1 Tips:  View Agent','','inherit','open','open','','6685-revision','','','2012-05-23 04:53:13','2012-05-23 04:53:13','',6685,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6685-revision',0,'revision','',0),(6687,22,'2012-05-23 05:04:29','2012-05-23 05:04:29','If you are using VMware View and dual displays, DO NOT upgrade your Virtual Machine hardware to Version 8!  There are major graphics issues with this version.  The biggest issues are seen when moving windows between displays.  And the performance was AWFUL.\r\n\r\nAlready upgraded to HW 8 like I did?  VMware\'s KB article provides a work around by editing the VMX file of the VM (or parent VM) in question:  <a id=\"permalink-content\" href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2010359\" rel=\"bookmark\">Poor performance when moving windows between multiple displays in View 5.0 session</a>  VMware Support says that they are working on a patch and there is no ETA.\r\n\r\nThis issue is limited to this configuration:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Windows 7 View virtual machines (both 32bit and 64bit)</li>\r\n	<li>Virtual machine hardware version 8</li>\r\n	<li>View Agent 5.0 or higher</li>\r\n	<li>Client desktop utilizing multiple displays</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Stay tuned to more posts in this series about VMware View 5.1 “Lessons Learned” by following along with the tag: <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/tag/vmware-view-5.1\">VMware View 5.1</a></em>\r\n\r\n<em>Phillip Reynolds is a guest blogger.  You can also follow him on twitter: <a href=\"http://twitter.com/philvirtual\" target=\"_blank\">@philvirtual</a></em>','View 5.1 Tips:  VM HW 8? Dual Monitors? Ut oh...','','publish','open','open','','view-5-1-tips-vm-hw-8-dual-monitors-ut-oh','','','2012-05-23 05:22:16','2012-05-23 05:22:16','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=6687',0,'post','',0),(6688,22,'2012-05-23 05:03:36','2012-05-23 05:03:36','If you are using VMware View and dual displays, DO NOT upgrade your Virtual Machine hardware to Version 8!  There are major graphics issues with this version.  The biggest issues are seen when moving windows between displays.  And the performance was AWFUL.\n\nAlready upgraded to HW 8 like I did?  VMware\'s KB article provides a work around by editing the VMX file of the VM (or parent VM) in question:  <a id=\"permalink-content\" href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2010359\" rel=\"bookmark\">Poor performance when moving windows between multiple displays in View 5.0 session</a>  VMware Support says that they are working on a patch and there is no ETA.\n\n*NOTE:  This does apply to\n\n<em>Stay tuned to more posts in this series about VMware View 5.1 “Lessons Learned” by following along with the tag: <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/tag/vmware-view-5.1\">VMware View 5.1</a></em>\n\n<em>Phillip Reynolds is a guest blogger.  You can also follow him on twitter: <a href=\"http://twitter.com/philvirtual\" target=\"_blank\">@philvirtual</a></em>','View 5.1 Tips:  VM HW 8? Dual Monitors? Ut oh...','','inherit','open','open','','6687-revision','','','2012-05-23 05:03:36','2012-05-23 05:03:36','',6687,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6687-revision',0,'revision','',0),(6689,22,'2013-03-21 12:28:28','2013-03-21 16:28:28','If you are using VMware View and dual displays, DO NOT upgrade your Virtual Machine hardware to Version 8!  There are major graphics issues with this version.  The biggest issues are seen when moving windows between displays.  And the performance was AWFUL.\n\nAlready upgraded to HW 8 like I did?  VMware\'s KB article provides a work around by editing the VMX file of the VM (or parent VM) in question:  <a id=\"permalink-content\" href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2010359\" rel=\"bookmark\">Poor performance when moving windows between multiple displays in View 5.0 session</a>  VMware Support says that they are working on a patch and there is no ETA.\n\nThis issue is limited to this configuration:\n<ul>\n	<li>Windows 7 View virtual machines (both 32bit and 64bit)</li>\n	<li>Virtual machine hardware version 8</li>\n	<li>View Agent 5.0 or higher</li>\n	<li>Client desktop utilizing multiple displays</li>\n</ul>\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>Stay tuned to more posts in this series about VMware View 5.1 “Lessons Learned” by following along with the tag: <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/tag/vmware-view-5.1\">VMware View 5.1</a></em>\n\n<em>Phillip Reynolds is a guest blogger.  You can also follow him on twitter: <a href=\"http://twitter.com/philvirtual\" target=\"_blank\">@philvirtual</a></em>','View 5.1 Tips:  VM HW 8? Dual Monitors? Ut oh...','','inherit','open','open','','6687-autosave','','','2013-03-21 12:28:28','2013-03-21 16:28:28','',6687,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6687-autosave',0,'revision','',0),(6690,22,'2012-05-23 05:17:54','2012-05-23 05:17:54','VMware took security to a whole new level in VMware View 5.1  Certificates are here and they are configured in a completely different way than previous versions of View.  Have fun!\r\n\r\nAll connection, security, transfer, composer, and vCenter servers must have SSL certs signed by a Certificate Authority (CA) or you will receive warnings about untrusted connections.  Please pay close attention to the VMware View 5.1 Installation and Administration guides.\r\n\r\nBeing a small IT shop, I have little experience with certificates.  After a lot of trial, error, reading, and a support call to VMware, I finally figured out how to do it.  I recorded a brief video capturing part of the process:  <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCWkZj1EgBI\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCWkZj1EgBI</a>\r\n\r\n\r\n<em>Stay tuned to more posts in this series about VMware View 5.1 “Lessons Learned” by following along with the tag: <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/tag/vmware-view-5.1\">VMware View 5.1</a></em>\r\n\r\n<em>Phillip Reynolds is a guest blogger.  You can also follow him on twitter: <a href=\"http://twitter.com/philvirtual\" target=\"_blank\">@philvirtual</a></em>','View 5.1 Tips:  SSL Certificates Required','','publish','open','open','','view-5-1-tips-ssl-certificates-required','','','2012-05-23 05:21:23','2012-05-23 05:21:23','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=6690',0,'post','',0),(6691,22,'2012-05-23 05:16:55','2012-05-23 05:16:55','VMware took security to a whole new level in VMware View 5.1  Certificates are here and they are configured in a completely different way than previous versions of View.  Have fun!\n\nAll connection, security, transfer, composer, and vCenter servers must have SSL certs signed by a Certificate Authority (CA) or you will receive warnings about untrusted connections.  Please pay close attention to the VMware View 5.1 Installation and Administration guides.\n\nBeing a small IT shop, I have little experience with certificates.  After a lot of trial, error, reading, and a support call to VMware, I finally figured out how to do it.  I recorded a brief video capturing part of the process:\n\n&nbsp;','View 5.1 Tips:  SSL Certificates Required','','inherit','open','open','','6690-revision','','','2012-05-23 05:16:55','2012-05-23 05:16:55','',6690,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6690-revision',0,'revision','',0),(6692,22,'2013-03-21 11:24:01','2013-03-21 15:24:01','VMware took security to a whole new level in VMware View 5.1  Certificates are here and they are configured in a completely different way than previous versions of View.  Have fun!\n\nAll connection, security, transfer, composer, and vCenter servers must have SSL certs signed by a Certificate Authority (CA) or you will receive warnings about untrusted connections.  Please pay close attention to the VMware View 5.1 Installation and Administration guides.\n\nBeing a small IT shop, I have little experience with certificates.  After a lot of trial, error, reading, and a support call to VMware, I finally figured out how to do it.  I recorded a brief video capturing part of the process:  <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCWkZj1EgBI\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCWkZj1EgBI</a>\n\n<em>Stay tuned to more posts in this series about VMware View 5.1 “Lessons Learned” by following along with the tag: <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/tag/vmware-view-5.1\">VMware View 5.1</a></em>\n\n<em>Phillip Reynolds is a guest blogger.  You can also follow him on twitter: <a href=\"http://twitter.com/philvirtual\" target=\"_blank\">@philvirtual</a></em>','View 5.1 Tips:  SSL Certificates Required','','inherit','open','open','','6690-autosave','','','2013-03-21 11:24:01','2013-03-21 15:24:01','',6690,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6690-autosave',0,'revision','',0),(6693,22,'2012-05-23 05:17:54','2012-05-23 05:17:54','VMware took security to a whole new level in VMware View 5.1  Certificates are here and they are configured in a completely different way than previous versions of View.  Have fun!\r\n\r\nAll connection, security, transfer, composer, and vCenter servers must have SSL certs signed by a Certificate Authority (CA) or you will receive warnings about untrusted connections.  Please pay close attention to the VMware View 5.1 Installation and Administration guides.\r\n\r\nBeing a small IT shop, I have little experience with certificates.  After a lot of trial, error, reading, and a support call to VMware, I finally figured out how to do it.  I recorded a brief video capturing part of the process:\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Stay tuned to more posts in this series about VMware View 5.1 “Lessons Learned” by following along with the tag: <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/tag/vmware-view-5.1\">VMware View 5.1</a></em>\r\n\r\n<em>Phillip Reynolds is a guest blogger.  You can also follow him on twitter: <a href=\"http://twitter.com/philvirtual\" target=\"_blank\">@philvirtual</a></em>','View 5.1 Tips:  SSL Certificates Required','','inherit','open','open','','6690-revision-2','','','2012-05-23 05:17:54','2012-05-23 05:17:54','',6690,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6690-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(6694,22,'2012-05-23 05:04:29','2012-05-23 05:04:29','If you are using VMware View and dual displays, DO NOT upgrade your Virtual Machine hardware to Version 8!  There are major graphics issues with this version.  The biggest issues are seen when moving windows between displays.  And the performance was AWFUL.\r\n\r\nAlready upgraded to HW 8 like I did?  VMware\'s KB article provides a work around by editing the VMX file of the VM (or parent VM) in question:  <a id=\"permalink-content\" href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2010359\" rel=\"bookmark\">Poor performance when moving windows between multiple displays in View 5.0 session</a>  VMware Support says that they are working on a patch and there is no ETA.\r\n\r\nThis issue is limited to this configuration:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Windows 7 View virtual machines (both 32bit and 64bit)</li>\r\n	<li>Virtual machine hardware version 8</li>\r\n	<li>View Agent 5.0 or higher</li>\r\n	<li>Client desktop utilizing multiple displays</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Stay tuned to more posts in this series about VMware View 5.1 “Lessons Learned” by following along with the tag: <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/tag/vmware-view-5.1\">VMware View 5.1</a></em>\r\n\r\n<em>Phillip Reynolds is a guest blogger.  You can also follow him on twitter: <a href=\"http://twitter.com/philvirtual\" target=\"_blank\">@philvirtual</a></em>','View 5.1 Tips:  VM HW 8? Dual Monitors? Ut oh...','','inherit','open','open','','6687-revision-2','','','2012-05-23 05:04:29','2012-05-23 05:04:29','',6687,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6687-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(6695,2,'2012-05-22 16:03:38','2012-05-22 16:03:38','Join eGroup\'s Jason Webster for a technical deep dive into the latest in application virtualization technology, management and delivery with VMware\'s ThinApp Factory and Horizon Application Manager.\r\n\r\nChoose from two dates - click below to register!\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://egroup.webex.com/mw0307l/mywebex/default.do?service=1&amp;siteurl=egroup&amp;nomenu=true&amp;main_url=%2Fmc0806l%2Fe.do%3Fsiteurl%3Degroup%26AT%3DMI%26EventID%3D200419477%26UID%3D1355323452%26Host%3Dac085e38703d233b%26RG%3D1%26FrameSet%3D2\">Friday, June 8 @ 9 AM\r\n</a><a href=\"https://egroup.webex.com/mw0307l/mywebex/default.do?service=1&amp;siteurl=egroup&amp;nomenu=true&amp;main_url=%2Fmc0806l%2Fe.do%3Fsiteurl%3Degroup%26AT%3DMI%26EventID%3D200419477%26UID%3D1355323452%26Host%3D1454040323020010%26RG%3D1%26FrameSet%3D2\">Monday, June 18 @ 11 AM</a>\r\n\r\nDuring this webinar we will take a deep dive into VMware ThinApp, VMware ThinApp Factory and Horizon Application Manager. We will discuss topics such as:\r\n\r\n• ThinApp Packaging Methodolgy\r\n\r\n• ThinApp Best Practices\r\n\r\n• ThinApp Factory Packaging Process\r\n\r\n- Work Pools\r\n- File Shares\r\n- Recipes\r\n- Feeds\r\n- ThinApp Store\r\n- Horizon Integration\r\n\r\n• Horizon Application Manager\r\n\r\n- SAAS Applications\r\n- ThinApp Applications\r\n- Other Applications\r\n- Metering/Reporting\r\n- Management/Compliance\r\n\r\nWe will also take a closer look at VMware\'s latest technologies from installer to desktop and discuss the benefits and best practices for deploying applications in today\'s \"bring your own device\" world.\r\n\r\nQuestions? E-Mail Jason Webster at <a href=\"mailto:Jason.Webster@eGroup-us.com\">Jason.Webster@eGroup-us.com</a>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','JOIN US FOR A WEBINAR ON VMWARE\'S THINAPP FACTORY AND HORIZON APPLICATION MANAGER','','inherit','open','open','','6656-revision-4','','','2012-05-22 16:03:38','2012-05-22 16:03:38','',6656,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6656-revision-4',0,'revision','',0),(6697,44,'2012-05-22 15:21:21','2012-05-22 15:21:21','<span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">EMC’s Isilon is on the verge of its latest release of OneFS 6.5 code named “Mavericks”. With all of the buzz at EMC World this week there are bound to be some questions about what Mavericks means to Scale-Out-NAS users, so below is a breakdown of the new supported options and features including some info on what OneFS is to all the people that are new to Isilon. With the latest greatest features I think we are going to see a huge surge in NAS users seeking out Isilon not only because of what it offers from a feature standpoint but more importantly what it offers from an infrastructure standpoint…. Being able to scale storage at ease without taking a performance hit is an amazing thing!</span></span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">  More after the bump</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/isilon-droid.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-6641 aligncenter\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/isilon-droid-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"271\" /></a></span>\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>What is OneFS: </strong>OneFS is Isilon\'s sixth-generation operating system that provides the intelligence behind all Isilon scale-out NAS systems. It combines the three layers of traditional storage architectures—file system, volume manager, and RAID—into one unified software layer, creating a single intelligent file system that spans all nodes within a cluster. With OneFS 6.5, Isilon is able to deliver significant performance enhancements for Windows clients, integrated support for solid state drives (SSDs) within SmartPools, automated storage tiering, faster local and remote data replication, write once read many (WORM) data protection, and increased functionality and ease of management in heterogeneous environments.  </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: small\">What does this means to you? SIMPLE and EFFICIENT! No more wasted time carving out RAID groups, losing disk space, or wondering if your data is balanced... Let OneFS do the work for you! OneFS 6.5 is a major new software release that will significantly increase Isilon’s already more than capable systems and interoperability in the enterprise delivering an outstanding set of features This release dramatically enhances Isilon’s DR and business continuity offering with the much-anticipated introduction of SyncIQ 3.0. With OneFS 6.5 under the hood of Isilon\'s diverse offering of nodes, S- Series (High Performance), X-Series (Mid Tier Performance), and NL-Series (Archiving) we have a solution that can meet your needs. In short... <em>These ARE the nodes you are looking for!</em></span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><strong><span style=\"font-size: small\">What are the new Features? Here are just a few!</span></strong></li>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Global Namespace Acceleration: </strong>Isilon’s SmartPools feature allows customers to combine pools of different system types in the same cluster, all in a single file system, and to automatically migrate data among nodes with different performance and capacity characteristics so that data is always stored appropriately based on its value and how it needs to be accessed. In OneFS 6.5, Global Namespace Acceleration adds support in SmartPools for solid state drives. With Global Namespace Acceleration, a SmartPools environment can be configured to keep metadata or data on SSDs, and even to use SSDs in one part of the cluster to store metadata for systems that have no SSDs on board. The result is that critical SSD resources can be maximized to cost-effectively improve performance across a wide range of workflows</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Enhancements to Authentication, Identity Management, and Authorization: </strong>With OneFS 6.5, Isilon has made many enhancements to the configuration and management of Authentication, identity management, and authorization functions. OneFS 6.5 makes it much easier to configure and manage individuals’ access to and rights within multiple systems thanks to improvements such as support for multiple NIS/LDAP domains, user ID/system ID mapping, and Windows security descriptors.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>New SmartLock Delivers WORM Data Protection:</strong> SmartLock, Isilon’s latest feature, delivers write once read many (WORM) data protection against accidental, malicious, or premature alteration or deletion of data. The current implementation is an “Enterprise” feature, which is appropriate for data protection over time, is integrated with OneFS 6.5 features like SyncIQ 3.0 replication, and works with third-party backup, but is not certified as a compliance solution. This is a feature that I see that is common in healthcare, and more often than not I get more requests wanting to know if we can do this with Isilon than most anything else.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>SyncIQ 3.0: </strong>SyncIQ 3.0 adds integrated snapshots, a new performance enhancement that quickly identifies and replicates data, dramatically reducing time needed to protect the same amount of data. Integrated snapshots remove the need for time-consuming treewalks every time data is synchronized. Most workflows will see a significant improvement in the time it takes for their hourly, daily, weekly, or other syncs to complete, which means better overall system performance as well as improvements in recovery point objectives (RPOs) for disaster recovery applications.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>New Networking Performance Enhancements and Options: </strong>A new implementation of both Isilon’s NFS and SMB (CIFS) stacks brings performance and management benefits today and provide a strong foundation for additional improvements in future releases.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">NFS: Support for NFS v2, 3, and 4</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">Kerberized session support for NFSv3 and 4</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">SMB: Support for SMB1 (CIFS) and SMB2 with significant performance boosts</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">There are also several new front-end networking options available in OneFS 6.5. In addition to continuing support for Cisco Fast EtherChannel (FEC), OneFS 6.5 adds new support for Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP-IEEE 802.3ad), failover, round robin, and load balance.</span><span style=\"font-size: small\">  </span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>','Isilon: Something new is coming with \"Mavericks\" OneFS 6.5','','inherit','open','open','','6637-revision-15','','','2012-05-22 15:21:21','2012-05-22 15:21:21','',6637,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6637-revision-15',0,'revision','',0),(6698,44,'2012-05-22 18:47:56','2012-05-22 18:47:56','<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">With all the news releases at EMC World around Isilon with virtualization and the cloud, I thought it would be a good time to bring this article back up. Isilon is continuing to add more integration with VMware into its offering, with the recent past additions of integration and support of VMware\'s Site Recovery Manager and integration of Isilon into the vCenter client itself, Isilon has been making steady progress. However, with OneFS 6.5 they are now integrating VASA and VAAI supportability as well strengthening Isilon even further with customers who are running NFS for their VMware environment. So all that being said let’s take a look at why Isilon is a great fit for use in your VMware environment.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/before-and-after.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6668\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/before-and-after.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"245\" /></a></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Read more after the bump!</span>\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Server virtualization streamlines and maximizes your server resources. However, you must have a scalable storage platform to fully realize the economic benefits, flexibility and agility virtualization can provide. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">The Isilon IQ storage platform, powered by the OneFS® operating system, was designed from the ground up to reduce storage complexity. In a dynamic virtualized environment, Isilon Scale-out NAS eliminates the management complexity inherent in traditional SAN or scale-up NAS storage while increasing application availability and protection. With Isilon you can: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">1. <strong>Simplify</strong> storage management: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Consolidate and replace tens, hundreds, or thousands of volumes with a single namespace, single volume, and single file system to host thousands of virtual machines. With Isilon you can also consolidate virtualized and non-virtualized application storage with standard networking and file sharing protocols. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">2. Quickly <strong>adapt</strong> to change: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">In a dynamic environment where VMs are added daily, with Isilon you can non-disruptively scale storage and performance. When a storage node is added to an Isilon cluster the additional capacity, performance and connectivity is immediately available and shared across all virtualized data stores. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">3. Increase <strong>efficiency</strong> and <strong>productivity</strong>: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Achieve over 80% storage utilization without degrading performance. Our globally coherent cache and Isilon SmartConnect client load-balancing provide high-performance with rock-solid data protection, high availability and system resiliency. Eliminate complex storage management tasks, such as chasing hot-spots and migrating VMs across traditional SAN or scale-up NAS and focus on achieving the greatest gains from your virtualized server environment. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">4. Increase <strong>protection</strong> and disaster <strong>recovery</strong> in your virtualized environment: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Isilon provides a suite of integrated software applications for every level of your virtual environment to protect applications and data. With Isilon, you can non-disruptively set different protection policies, unlimited snapshot and replication schedules at the individual VM level, or across any number of data stores. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">5. Economic <strong>value</strong>: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">More than 1,000 Isilon customers have experienced significant savings and increased agility in their storage environment. With an intuitive, easy to use, single file system, you can reduce time spent on storage management—from days and weeks to minutes</span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Isilon: Top 5 Reasons to choose Isilon for VMware','','inherit','open','open','','6655-revision-7','','','2012-05-22 18:47:56','2012-05-22 18:47:56','',6655,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6655-revision-7',0,'revision','',0),(6699,8,'2012-05-24 03:34:52','2012-05-24 03:34:52','eGroup had the benefit of working with the upcoming VMware ThinApp AppFactory appliance over the last several weeks and walked away impressed.  The latest tool in Application Virtualization slated to be released in the coming months is a game changer for the Application Virtualization and Delivery arena.  eGroup kicked off the #CVMUG12 Hands On labs with standing room only in the back of the room for the hands on AppFactory packaging session and technical walk through.  Myself (@JasonBWebster) alongside Ian Jones (eGroup Senior Application Services Engineer) and Dean \"Keeper of the Dark Arts\" Flaming (VMware ThinApp GURU) the crowd was not disappointed, approximately 45 ThinApps captured built and deployed to VMware View 5.1 desktops in about 15 minutes.\n\nBy introducing concepts such as Workflow, WorkPools, Feeds, Shares, Recipes and the ThinApp Store VMware has managed to simplify the application virtualization process by providing more consistency in the ThinApp base image, repeatable and automated tasks with workflows and recipes, and streamlined end user consumption with the ThinApp Store and Horizon App Manager integration.  In short, the application virtualization community not only has a way to share the best practices way of packaging and app via recipes, they can serve it right into your ThinApp factory appliance (installer and all) via a AppFactory feed.\n\nLets hit the high points:\n\n<strong>Workflow:</strong>  ThinApp AppFactory introduces the concept of workflow into the packaging process.  By breaking down the tasks of pristine image/machine creation, precapture, install, postcapture, prebuild, build and deploy.  The user has the ability to create a repeatable process and scale it to multiple instances.\n\n<strong>WorkPools:</strong>  ThinApp AppFactory introduces the WorkPool concept to Application Virtualization.  Notice the word \"Pool\", this is similar to desktop pools in VMware View although now we are talking about the packaging virtual machine or machines.  A WorkPool can be created in the AppFactory appliance web admin by one of two methods.\n\nMethod 1:  Selecting and existing VM and snapshot to create the base image from.  Method 2:  Selecting an Windows Operating System ISO from a datastore.\n\nMethod 2:  My favorite, immediately upon selecting the ISO and providing AppFactory with a VL or MAK/KMS license key the appliance goes to work creating a pristine virtual machine for the capture environment.\n\nAlso in the WorkPool settings, you can specify the maximum number of packaging instances to create at any single time.  These packaging instances are Linked Clones off the base image and provision on demand.  Once provisioned, they stay in a powered off state awaiting queued ThinApp packaging jobs.\n\n<strong>Recipes:  </strong>ThinApp AppFactory Recipes are flat files that allow the packager to insert scripted and manual steps into the various phases of the packaging process.  For custom in-house applications, this allows application teams to specify all the dependencies, locations and any other application specific requirements for a given application.  Recipes will promote consistency and reliability of ThinApp Applications from environment to environment.  Application Packagers will no longer have to wade through all the community and blog posts on \"How to Virtualize X Application on Windows 7\" and follow it step by step.  They can simply grab the recipe, plug it into the application by selecting it at capture time and the resulting ThinApp is produced on the other side.\n\n<strong>Feeds:  </strong>ThinApp AppFactory feeds are JSON formatted web based locations in which the content of the feed specifies the available applications, icons, installation commands, AppFactory Recipes, etc... for packaging an application.  The result, the packager can subscribe to a feed and all the applications they serve are readily available in your environment for packaging.  Just select the application and hit capture.  ThinApp AppFactory will read the feed and download the appropriate installer to the capture machine, package it based on the feed commands and any associated AppFactory recipes.  Feeds will allow application publishers to provide real time updates and streamline the deployment process directly to their customers.  Application consumers can perform assured migrations by having multiple versions of a ThinApp Application.  Custom feeds can be created to integrate with existing application management solutions.\n\n<strong>File Shares:</strong>  Similar to ThinApp AppFactory feeds, File Shares allow the application administrator to specify a UNC path to in-house application installers.  ThinApp AppFactory will then  traverse the folders in the share and make any application installers available for packaging in the package WorkFlow.\n\n<strong>ThinApp Store:  </strong>The ThinApp Store allows you to house and deliver applications in a user self-service model.  You can publish ThinApp applications packaged with AppFactory to the ThinApp Store and users can visit the store in their browser, select the applications they want and deploy them to their desktop seamlessly.  The ThinApp Store doesn\'t offer any form of user/group administration or filtering, for that level of application control, Horizon Application Manager can provide all those functions and more.\n\nAll of these features tie in with a intuitive web interface that allows for the user to visualize the packaging process from installer to desktop and interact at depth at each level.\n\nStay tuned... in part 2 we will be doing a video post that will walk you through exactly how to package applications in the ThinApp AppFactory Appliance.\n\nJoin us for our ThinApp AppFactory and Horizon Application Manager webinars on 6/8 and 6/18.  Email Jason.Webster@eGroup-us','eGroup provides first look at VMware ThinApp AppFactory at the Carolinas VMUG in Charlotte, NC','','inherit','open','open','','6612-revision-2','','','2012-05-24 03:34:52','2012-05-24 03:34:52','',6612,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6612-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(6700,2,'2012-05-22 16:06:03','2012-05-22 16:06:03','<em>eGroup, Inc. is among the first of partners in Carolinas to become certified as part of EMC\'s virtualization and cloud initiative, and f</em><em>irst to offer customers complete spectrum of choice when moving to cloud computing.</em>\r\n\r\nMay 22, 2012 - Mt. Pleasant, SC - eGroup, Inc. today announced its EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure certification.  EMC\'s VSPEX Proven Infrastructure is a simple, efficient, and flexible reference architecture comprised of EMC’s award-winning storage systems and next-generation backup products, along with best-of-breed virtualization, server, and network technology from EMC alliance partners Brocade, Cisco, Citrix, Intel, Microsoft, and VMware.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe fourteen initial VSPEX configurations represent the most popular use cases for customers moving to cloud computing. These use cases are focused on enabling customers to accelerate deployment of private cloud and end user computing environments. For private cloud deployments customers have the option of running VMware vSphere 5.0 or Microsoft Windows Hyper-V from 50-250 virtual machines and for end-user computing deployments customers can choose between VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop® from 50 to 2000 virtual desktops. Full details are available on emc.com. Additional VSPEX configurations will be made available based on partner demand.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Proven Infrastructure is now available to partners in the EMC Velocity™ partner program. For the first time partners can fully leverage the EMC brand and industrial design in delivering VSPEX solutions to their customers. In addition EMC is providing VSPEX labs for partners to test, validate and demonstrate new VSPEX solutions.\r\n\r\n\"EMC VSPEX will enable eGroup to provide our customers with complete solutions that accelerate the deployment of virtualization and cloud offerings for small-to-medium businesses as well as the mid-enterprise market\", commented Mike Stokes, Director of Sales, eGroup.\r\n\r\n<strong>EMC VSPEX Customer Benefits</strong>\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Simple – VSPEX Proven Infrastructures deliver predictable performance that significantly reduces the planning, sizing and configuration burdens of adopting private cloud or end-user computing environments. In addition, EMC\'s validation of the VSPEX configuration greatly reduces deployment time. Finally, tight alignment with Windows Server Hyper-V and VMware vSphere cloud infrastructure provide customers a single point of management using System Center for Microsoft cloud and VMware vCenter™ Operations Management Suite for private cloud deployments.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Efficient – Built on EMC\'s award-winning VNX™ and VNXe™ unified storage systems and Avamar® and Data Domain® next-generation backup products, VSPEX provides customers with unmatched levels of efficiency. Leveraging technologies such as data deduplication, compression and Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST), customers can expect to significantly lower operational costs. By integrating these technologies tightly with the hypervisor and end-user computing environments, customers can also benefit from simpler administration and lower management costs.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Flexible – VSPEX allows customers to combine their choice of industry-leading server, network, and virtualization technologies into a proven infrastructure validated by EMC and built on a highly flexible EMC storage and backup infrastructure. Additionally, the customer\'s channel partner of choice – who understands the specific customer\'s requirements – can customize VSPEX to meet their needs.\r\n\r\nSince 1999, eGroup has provided innovative technology solutions to businesses across the Southeast. In addition to cloud services, eGroup focuses on application services and end-user computing. Contact eGroup at <a href=\"mailto:info@eGroup-us.com\">info@eGroup-us.com</a> or visit <a href=\"http://www.myecloud.com\">www.myecloud.com</a> or <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com\">www.egroup-us.com</a> for more information.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;\">           </span></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','eGROUP AMONG FIRST PARTNERS IN CAROLINAS TO ACHIEVE EMC VSPEX PROVEN INFRASTRUCTURE CERTIFICATION','','inherit','open','open','','6626-revision-11','','','2012-05-22 16:06:03','2012-05-22 16:06:03','',6626,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6626-revision-11',0,'revision','',0),(6701,2,'2012-05-24 12:26:07','2012-05-24 12:26:07','<em>eGroup, Inc. is among the first of partners in the southeast to become certified as part of EMC\'s virtualization and cloud initiative, and f</em><em>irst to offer customers complete spectrum of choice when moving to cloud computing.</em>\r\n\r\nMay 22, 2012 - Mt. Pleasant, SC - eGroup, Inc. today announced its EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure certification.  EMC\'s VSPEX Proven Infrastructure is a simple, efficient, and flexible reference architecture comprised of EMC’s award-winning storage systems and next-generation backup products, along with best-of-breed virtualization, server, and network technology from EMC alliance partners Brocade, Cisco, Citrix, Intel, Microsoft, and VMware.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe fourteen initial VSPEX configurations represent the most popular use cases for customers moving to cloud computing. These use cases are focused on enabling customers to accelerate deployment of private cloud and end user computing environments. For private cloud deployments customers have the option of running VMware vSphere 5.0 or Microsoft Windows Hyper-V from 50-250 virtual machines and for end-user computing deployments customers can choose between VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop® from 50 to 2000 virtual desktops. Full details are available on emc.com. Additional VSPEX configurations will be made available based on partner demand.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Proven Infrastructure is now available to partners in the EMC Velocity™ partner program. For the first time partners can fully leverage the EMC brand and industrial design in delivering VSPEX solutions to their customers. In addition EMC is providing VSPEX labs for partners to test, validate and demonstrate new VSPEX solutions.\r\n\r\n\"EMC VSPEX will enable eGroup to provide our customers with complete solutions that accelerate the deployment of virtualization and cloud offerings for small-to-medium businesses as well as the mid-enterprise market\", commented Mike Stokes, Director of Sales, eGroup.\r\n\r\n<strong>EMC VSPEX Customer Benefits</strong>\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Simple – VSPEX Proven Infrastructures deliver predictable performance that significantly reduces the planning, sizing and configuration burdens of adopting private cloud or end-user computing environments. In addition, EMC\'s validation of the VSPEX configuration greatly reduces deployment time. Finally, tight alignment with Windows Server Hyper-V and VMware vSphere cloud infrastructure provide customers a single point of management using System Center for Microsoft cloud and VMware vCenter™ Operations Management Suite for private cloud deployments.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Efficient – Built on EMC\'s award-winning VNX™ and VNXe™ unified storage systems and Avamar® and Data Domain® next-generation backup products, VSPEX provides customers with unmatched levels of efficiency. Leveraging technologies such as data deduplication, compression and Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST), customers can expect to significantly lower operational costs. By integrating these technologies tightly with the hypervisor and end-user computing environments, customers can also benefit from simpler administration and lower management costs.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Flexible – VSPEX allows customers to combine their choice of industry-leading server, network, and virtualization technologies into a proven infrastructure validated by EMC and built on a highly flexible EMC storage and backup infrastructure. Additionally, the customer\'s channel partner of choice – who understands the specific customer\'s requirements – can customize VSPEX to meet their needs.\r\n\r\nSince 1999, eGroup has provided innovative technology solutions to businesses across the Southeast. In addition to cloud services, eGroup focuses on application services and end-user computing. Contact eGroup at <a href=\"mailto:info@eGroup-us.com\">info@eGroup-us.com</a> or visit <a href=\"http://www.myecloud.com\">www.myecloud.com</a> or <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com\">www.egroup-us.com</a> for more information.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;\">           </span></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','eGROUP AMONG FIRST PARTNERS IN SOUTHEAST TO ACHIEVE EMC VSPEX PROVEN INFRASTRUCTURE CERTIFICATION','','inherit','open','open','','6626-revision-12','','','2012-05-24 12:26:07','2012-05-24 12:26:07','',6626,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6626-revision-12',0,'revision','',0),(6702,2,'2012-05-24 12:26:26','2012-05-24 12:26:26','<em>eGroup, Inc. is among the first of partners in the southeast to become certified as part of EMC\'s virtualization and cloud initiative, and f</em><em>irst to offer customers complete spectrum of choice when moving to cloud computing.</em>\r\n\r\nMay 22, 2012 - Mt. Pleasant, SC - eGroup, Inc. today announced its EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure certification.  EMC\'s VSPEX Proven Infrastructure is a simple, efficient, and flexible reference architecture comprised of EMC’s award-winning storage systems and next-generation backup products, along with best-of-breed virtualization, server, and network technology from EMC alliance partners Brocade, Cisco, Citrix, Intel, Microsoft, and VMware.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe fourteen initial VSPEX configurations represent the most popular use cases for customers moving to cloud computing. These use cases are focused on enabling customers to accelerate deployment of private cloud and end user computing environments. For private cloud deployments customers have the option of running VMware vSphere 5.0 or Microsoft Windows Hyper-V from 50-250 virtual machines and for end-user computing deployments customers can choose between VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop® from 50 to 2000 virtual desktops. Full details are available on emc.com. Additional VSPEX configurations will be made available based on partner demand.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Proven Infrastructure is now available to partners in the EMC Velocity™ partner program. For the first time partners can fully leverage the EMC brand and industrial design in delivering VSPEX solutions to their customers. In addition EMC is providing VSPEX labs for partners to test, validate and demonstrate new VSPEX solutions.\r\n\r\n\"EMC VSPEX will enable eGroup to provide our customers with complete solutions that accelerate the deployment of virtualization and cloud offerings for small-to-medium businesses as well as the mid-enterprise market\", commented Mike Stokes, Director of Sales, eGroup.\r\n\r\n<strong>EMC VSPEX Customer Benefits</strong>\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Simple – VSPEX Proven Infrastructures deliver predictable performance that significantly reduces the planning, sizing and configuration burdens of adopting private cloud or end-user computing environments. In addition, EMC\'s validation of the VSPEX configuration greatly reduces deployment time. Finally, tight alignment with Windows Server Hyper-V and VMware vSphere cloud infrastructure provide customers a single point of management using System Center for Microsoft cloud and VMware vCenter™ Operations Management Suite for private cloud deployments.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Efficient – Built on EMC\'s award-winning VNX™ and VNXe™ unified storage systems and Avamar® and Data Domain® next-generation backup products, VSPEX provides customers with unmatched levels of efficiency. Leveraging technologies such as data deduplication, compression and Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST), customers can expect to significantly lower operational costs. By integrating these technologies tightly with the hypervisor and end-user computing environments, customers can also benefit from simpler administration and lower management costs.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Flexible – VSPEX allows customers to combine their choice of industry-leading server, network, and virtualization technologies into a proven infrastructure validated by EMC and built on a highly flexible EMC storage and backup infrastructure. Additionally, the customer\'s channel partner of choice – who understands the specific customer\'s requirements – can customize VSPEX to meet their needs.\r\n\r\nSince 1999, eGroup has provided innovative technology solutions to businesses across the Southeast. In addition to cloud services, eGroup focuses on application services and end-user computing. Contact eGroup at <a href=\"mailto:info@eGroup-us.com\">info@eGroup-us.com</a> or visit <a href=\"http://www.myecloud.com\">www.myecloud.com</a> or <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com\">www.egroup-us.com</a> for more information.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;\">           </span></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','eGROUP AMONG FIRST PARTNERS IN SOUTHEAST TO ACHIEVE EMC VSPEX PROVEN INFRASTRUCTURE CERTIFICATION','','inherit','open','open','','6626-revision-13','','','2012-05-24 12:26:26','2012-05-24 12:26:26','',6626,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6626-revision-13',0,'revision','',0),(6703,2,'2012-05-24 12:26:52','2012-05-24 12:26:52','<em>eGroup, Inc. is among the first of partners in the southeast to become certified as part of EMC\'s virtualization and cloud initiative, and f</em><em>irst to offer customers complete spectrum of choice when moving to cloud computing.</em>\r\n\r\nMay 22, 2012 - Mt. Pleasant, SC - eGroup, Inc. today announced its EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure certification.  EMC\'s VSPEX Proven Infrastructure is a simple, efficient, and flexible reference architecture comprised of EMC’s award-winning storage systems and next-generation backup products, along with best-of-breed virtualization, server, and network technology from EMC alliance partners Brocade, Cisco, Citrix, Intel, Microsoft, and VMware.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe fourteen initial VSPEX configurations represent the most popular use cases for customers moving to cloud computing. These use cases are focused on enabling customers to accelerate deployment of private cloud and end user computing environments. For private cloud deployments customers have the option of running VMware vSphere 5.0 or Microsoft Windows Hyper-V from 50-250 virtual machines and for end-user computing deployments customers can choose between VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop® from 50 to 2000 virtual desktops. Full details are available on emc.com. Additional VSPEX configurations will be made available based on partner demand.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Proven Infrastructure is now available to partners in the EMC Velocity™ partner program. For the first time partners can fully leverage the EMC brand and industrial design in delivering VSPEX solutions to their customers. In addition EMC is providing VSPEX labs for partners to test, validate and demonstrate new VSPEX solutions.\r\n\r\n\"EMC VSPEX will enable eGroup to provide our customers with complete solutions that accelerate the deployment of virtualization and cloud offerings for small-to-medium businesses as well as the mid-enterprise market\", commented Mike Stokes, Director of Sales, eGroup.\r\n\r\n<strong>EMC VSPEX Customer Benefits</strong>\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Simple – VSPEX Proven Infrastructures deliver predictable performance that significantly reduces the planning, sizing and configuration burdens of adopting private cloud or end-user computing environments. In addition, EMC\'s validation of the VSPEX configuration greatly reduces deployment time. Finally, tight alignment with Windows Server Hyper-V and VMware vSphere cloud infrastructure provide customers a single point of management using System Center for Microsoft cloud and VMware vCenter™ Operations Management Suite for private cloud deployments.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Efficient – Built on EMC\'s award-winning VNX™ and VNXe™ unified storage systems and Avamar® and Data Domain® next-generation backup products, VSPEX provides customers with unmatched levels of efficiency. Leveraging technologies such as data deduplication, compression and Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST), customers can expect to significantly lower operational costs. By integrating these technologies tightly with the hypervisor and end-user computing environments, customers can also benefit from simpler administration and lower management costs.\r\n\r\nVSPEX Is Flexible – VSPEX allows customers to combine their choice of industry-leading server, network, and virtualization technologies into a proven infrastructure validated by EMC and built on a highly flexible EMC storage and backup infrastructure. Additionally, the customer\'s channel partner of choice – who understands the specific customer\'s requirements – can customize VSPEX to meet their needs.\r\n\r\nSince 1999, eGroup has provided innovative technology solutions to businesses across the Southeast. In addition to cloud services, eGroup focuses on application services and end-user computing. Contact eGroup at <a href=\"mailto:info@eGroup-us.com\">info@eGroup-us.com</a> or visit <a href=\"http://www.myecloud.com\">www.myecloud.com</a> or <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com\">www.egroup-us.com</a> for more information.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;\">           </span></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','eGROUP AMONG FIRST PARTNERS IN SOUTHEAST TO ACHIEVE EMC VSPEX PROVEN INFRASTRUCTURE CERTIFICATION','','inherit','open','open','','6626-revision-14','','','2012-05-24 12:26:52','2012-05-24 12:26:52','',6626,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6626-revision-14',0,'revision','',0),(6907,35,'2012-06-25 04:35:32','2012-06-25 04:35:32','VMware released the <a href=\"http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-19605\">vSphere 5.0 Hardening Guide</a> this month and I wanted to take the opportunity to blog my way through it in order to increase my familiarity, heighten its visibility, and provide a forum for discussion of the recommendations and methods to implement an assessment in your own environment.\n\nSince the hypervisor is the heart of your datacenter, let\'s start with the ESXi guidelines:\n<ul>\n	<li>Guideline Title: Use Active Directory for local user authentication\n<ul>\n	<li>Title: enable-ad-auth</li>\n	<li>Discussion: The credentials to your ESXi hosts are among the most sensitive in your entire datacenter. The root password should only be given to personnel that have an explicit need for it. Other users that need to login to hosts outside of vCenter can have permissions granted to their Active Directory account. David Davis has a <a href=\"http://blogs.vmware.com/esxi/2011/01/esxi-41-active-directory-integration.html\">great video</a> demonstrating the process. By default, an AD group names \"ESX Admins\" is chec</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>','VSPHERE HARDENING - PART 1','','inherit','open','open','','6904-revision-3','','','2012-06-25 04:35:32','2012-06-25 04:35:32','',6904,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6904-revision-3',0,'revision','',0),(6705,2,'2012-05-24 12:40:49','2012-05-24 12:40:49','','eCloud-Logo-FINAL_No Fuzz','','inherit','open','open','','ecloud-logo-final_no-fuzz','','','2012-05-24 12:40:49','2012-05-24 12:40:49','',30,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/eCloud-Logo-FINAL_No-Fuzz.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(6706,2,'2012-02-07 14:56:46','2012-02-07 14:56:46','Intelligent, scalable, cost-effective virtual infrastructures for enterprise class requirements in data center computing, storage, networking, and data protection.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://egroup-us.vceshowcase.com/?svpage=solutions_v-block&amp;sid=0e1623c8d98941891572d39bdfc97a06\">VCE Vblock</a> Infrastructure Packages</li>\r\n	<li>EMC Storage, Backup, Replication &amp; Recovery</li>\r\n	<li>Cisco Unified Computing and Network Infrastructure</li>\r\n	<li>VMware Virtualization and Your Cloud Computing</li>\r\n	<li>eGroup\'s eCloud Hosted Infrastructure</li>\r\n	<li>Systems Consultation &amp; Engineering Services</li>\r\n	<li>Product Procurement &amp; Logistics</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Public cloud? Private cloud? No, your cloud!</strong>\r\n\r\nIn a business world where the fast eat the slow, and where IT is central to every decision, IT responsiveness and agility are what ultimately provide a competitive edge. Yet many organizations aren’t quick enough on the uptake because their IT infrastructures are too cumbersome to manage and too complex to easily adapt.\r\n\r\nCloud computing provides a vastly more efficient, flexible, and cost-effective way for IT to meet escalating business needs: IT as a service. eGroup offers you an evolutionary and practical path to this new model, with solutions that harness the power of the cloud while ensuring security and preserving the value of your existing technology investments.\r\n\r\neGroup’s custom-assembled Cloud Infrastructure Platforms are optimized for a wide range of virtualized and traditional solution deployments. eGroup platforms integrate best-of-breed technology from industry leaders Cisco, EMC, and VMware, backed by eGroup\'s seamless best-in-class support. Our modular designs are highly scalable to meet growth needs, provide investment protection, and lower total cost of ownership.\r\n\r\nCloud computing is well understood as a profound shift in the IT model, evolving over time and having long-lasting implications for how IT builds applications, runs and delivers those applications, and how end users consume applications across an ever-expanding range of devices. Cloud has the potential to change everything about IT, allowing enterprise IT to create a competitive advantage by intelligently and dynamically anticipating and responding to business needs.\r\n\r\neGroup approaches cloud computing as a model that must be flexible and adaptive to the specific needs of each customer. Each individual business will approach cloud computing with unique goals, assets, timelines and budgets. Our message to customers is clear: it’s not about moving your business to somebody else’s cloud. 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That being said one of the newest benefits of these nodes is its massive scalability in a single cluster. Isilon continues its trend with unmatched efficiency on both the NL and X-Series nodes guaranteeing 80 percent or better storage utilization even at its highest scale, not to mention giving you the ability to have up to 27 TB, yes terabytes, of globally coherent cache. This added to the ease of management coming from the OneFS environment makes this thing a powerhouse.  The X400 is perfect for all types of workloads ranging from VMware, storing PACS imaging data in healthcare, digital media, to even handling business analytics such as heavy Hadoop workflows.\n\nSwitching gears the NL400 nodes combine Big Data storage capacity with a highly economical price per terabyte of capacity and the lowest overall TCO of any scale-out storage solution available. The NL-Series is perfect for Nearline Archiving, Disaster Recovery, or as a disk-to-disk backup solution. 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The eGroup team will be your eyes and ears for all that\'s hot, trending and newsworthy.\n\nJoin the eGroup Roundtable for a live discussion from WMworld 2012 on Wednesday, August 29th at 9:30 am ET.\n\neGroup\'s Rich Young (Marketing and Communications Manager) and Jason Webster (Application Services Manager) will provide an introduction to the new eGroup Roundtable series and give you the low down on what to expect!\n\nHear from technology thought leaders Ian Jones (Data Services Practice Area Lead, eGroup) and John Flisher (Senior Technical Consultant, eGroup) on all of the hottest topics and breaking news LIVE from VMworld. There will also be an opportunity for Q&amp;A from the audience!\n\nJoin us, and be one of the first to be \"in the know\"!\n\nMEETING INFORMATION:\n\nSpace is limited. 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We typically let our work and <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/featured-case-studies\" target=\"_blank\">customers speak</a> to our strengths. But, it\'s not everyday that a private company receives the recognition of such a prestigious outlet like <em>Inc. </em>Magazine on its <em>Inc. </em>5000 list.\r\n\r\nSo we wanted to share with you the release announcing our placement on this year\'s list (see below). In fact, eGroup ranked as the largest South Carolina-based IT Services provider to be represented on the list. Not too shabby!\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">Building a successful IT solutions and services firm is challenging. Understanding that in order to grow consistently and effectively, a business needs to continually adapt, especially in our space, is an entirely different challenge. That said, the team at eGroup believes we\'re incredibly well positioned as the industry moves through the current transformative period of technology delivery and innovation. But don\'t just take our word for it, listen to <em>Inc.</em> and <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/featured-case-studies\" target=\"_blank\">our customers</a>!</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>eGroup Named to Inc. 5000 List of Fastest Growing Private Companies</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>eGroup Ranks No. 3043 on the 2012 Inc. 500|5000 with Three-Year Sales Growth of 71%<em></em></em></p>\r\n<strong>MT. PLEASANT, S.C. – August 23, 2012</strong> – <em>Inc.</em> magazine today ranked <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/\">eGroup</a> No. 3043 on its sixth annual Inc. 500|5000, an exclusive ranking of the nation\'s fastest-growing private companies. eGroup is the Southeast’s leading provider of <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/cloud-services\">cloud</a>, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/application-services\">application</a> and<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/end-user-computing\"> end-user computing</a> services. According to the data, eGroup ranks as the largest South Carolina-based IT Services provider to be represented on the list.\r\n\r\nThe list represents a comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy—America’s independent entrepreneurs.\r\n\r\n“I am delighted that <em>Inc. </em>has recognized eGroup’s consistent and impressive growth over the past several years, and we’re honored to be a part of such a successful community of business leaders,” said Mike Carter, Principal, eGroup. “The IT industry is facing an enormous transformative period which challenges those in our space who haven’t properly adapted. <em>Inc.’s </em>recognition of eGroup as a progressive and attentive application and cloud services provider is refreshing - and accurately reflects our focus on helping customers achieve more with less.”\r\n\r\neGroup’s solutions drive customers’ cost containment, revenue growth, and service objectives by addressing challenges associated with mobility, access to critical applications and data, and security. eGroup’s expertise and core competence is focused in three distinct areas: <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/cloud-services\">Cloud Services (public and private)</a>, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/application-services\">Application Services</a>, and <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/end-user-computing\">End-User Computing</a>.\r\n\r\n\"Now, more than ever, we depend on Inc. 500|5000 companies to spur innovation, provide jobs, and drive the economy forward.  Growth companies, not large corporations, are where the action is,” says <em>Inc</em>. 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The internet worked the same for them as it did on Tuesday. For companies like Google and Facebook, it marked the point of no return for supporting IPv6 to the world, and their customers.  Here’s <a href=\"http://www.networkcomputing.com/ipv6-tech-center/240001572?pgno=1\">A Snapshot of IPv6</a> and a few facts and figures to help put this world-wide event in perspective as written by Mike Fratto with Network Computing.\r\n\r\nIf you’re learning about IPv6 for the first time, or need help catching up, <a href=\"http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/ipv6/basics/\">here’s</a> a great place to start.  If you like to low-crawl through the weeds, check out the title <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/IPv6-Enterprise-Networks-Networking-Technology/dp/1587142279\"><em>IPv6 for Enterprise Networks</em></a> by Cisco Press. It’s an excellent reference whether you’re planning your IPv6 transition or configuring EIGRPv6.  This book was also used as a reference to write this blog, so if I’ve sparked your curiosity in learning more about IPv6 it’s a must-read.\r\n\r\n<strong>IPv6 in the Data Center</strong>\r\n\r\nAssuming you know a little about IPv6, let\'s explore a much over-looked area of IPv6 deployment – the data center.  Today’s virtualized data centers offer unique considerations to IPv6 deployment than that of a typical campus network. Let’s consider the following:\r\n\r\n-          Virtualization of compute, network, and storage technologies\r\n\r\n-          Operating systems and mission critical applications\r\n\r\n-          Disaster recovery and high availability\r\n\r\nThis is by no means a comprehensive list, but these considerations definitely hit close to home to me, and if you use any of the technologies above, they should for you as well.\r\n\r\nAs many have learned and experienced, virtualization can increase business agility, lower costs, provide high availability and so much more. Platforms like Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) unify network, storage access, and server virtualization into a complete, easy to manage system.  Paired with a virtualization suite like VMware vSphere 5, managing thousands of Virtual Machines (VMs) from a centralized point of management becomes trivial.  This ease in administration does come at the cost of complexity when deciding how to support IPv6 all the way from your service provider down to your most critical application on a VM.\r\n\r\nWhether that application is on a UCS, being hosted in the Cloud, or on a physical server, you still have to manage and secure your data, and you’ll need to ensure your DR plan can execute over IPv6 to that site you’ve never been to in the middle of a cornfield in Nebraska.  Luckily, Cisco UCS and VMware vSphere 5 are both IPv6 ready, as are most recent operating systems and applications.\r\n\r\n<strong>Planning the Transition</strong>\r\n\r\nLeading the way, several governments have already started the transition to IPv6 through government directives.  For example, the United States, Australia, India, and Korea all have directives in action to transition to IPv6 by 2014.\r\n\r\nMake no mistake - deploying IPv6 for your enterprise will not be completed overnight. IPv4 will still probably be used for the next couple of decades with a slow, incremental transition to IPv6.  Each enterprise will have to decide when to transition based on their own business incentives, customer locations, and infrastructure costs.  There are a few requirements applicable to almost everyone.  The transition to IPv6 must…\r\n\r\n-          Not impact existing services\r\n\r\n-          Co-exist with IPv4 infrastructure\r\n\r\n-          Be low in cost\r\n\r\n-          Be transparent to the end user\r\n\r\nThere are plenty of options when it comes to deciding how you’ll transition and each data center has it’s own challenges and considerations.  Stay educated, plan for the future, and trust that the day will come when more of your customers are using IPv6 than IPv4. That day won’t be today or tomorrow, but it will come eventually.  Whether or not your infrastructure is prepared to service and support those customers in the future will depend on the choices you make today.\r\n\r\n<strong>Conclusion</strong>\r\n\r\nNot ready for IPv6? Don’t worry - there’s no need to panic or sell the farm.  As mentioned before, the adoption of IPv6 has been slow thus far so you definitely have some time to plan.  As it stands, we’re caught in a bit of a Catch-22.  Vendors don’t want to go “all-in” because of the lack of business incentive for implementing IPv6, and customers and companies who want to adopt native IPv6 aren’t able to without end-to-end support from vendors and providers.  Hopefully events like World IPv6 Day will help increase the necessary awareness and visibility to ensure a smooth transition for everyone.','TRANSITIONING TO IPV6 IN THE DATA CENTER','','draft','open','open','','','','','2012-06-08 13:18:58','2012-06-08 13:18:58','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=6771',0,'post','',0),(6756,38,'2012-05-31 20:46:10','0000-00-00 00:00:00','&nbsp;\n\nWhile doing to some simple trouble shooting on what I thought would be a walk in the park, I ran into a few problems trying to update the terminal server license attributes for user.  My users were constantly getting an error 4105 (see below; Event Details).\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAfter some digging, I ran across a very helpful Windows Server form (<a href=\"http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc775179(v=ws.10).aspx\">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc775179(v=ws.10).aspx</a>). Once the steps were correctly implemented and the restarting of the services, still no fix. Long story short, I later realized that this helpful form was missing a few important steps.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nEvent Details\n\n&nbsp;\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Product:</strong></td>\n<td>Windows Operating System</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>ID:</strong></td>\n<td>4105</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Source:</strong></td>\n<td>Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-Licensing</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Version:</strong></td>\n<td>6.0</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Symbolic Name:</strong></td>\n<td>TLS_W_PU_AD_UPDATE</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Message:</strong></td>\n<td>The Terminal Services license   server cannot update the license attributes for user \"%1!s!\" in the   Active Directory Domain \"%2!s!\". Ensure that the computer account   for the license server is a member of Terminal Server License Servers group   in Active Directory domain \"%2!s!\".\nIf the license server is installed on a domain controller, the Network   Service account also needs to be a member of the Terminal Server License   Servers group.\nIf the license server is installed on a domain controller, after you have   added the appropriate accounts to the Terminal Server License Servers group,   you must restart the Terminal Services Licensing service to track or report   the usage of TS Per User CALs.\nWin32 error code: %3!s!</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nResolve\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n<ul>\n	<li>Add the license server to the Terminal Server License Servers group and restart the Terminal Services Licensing service</li>\n</ul>\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nTo resolve this issue, do the following:\n\n&nbsp;\n<ul>\n	<li>Add the computer account for the license server to the Terminal Server License Servers group in Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS).</li>\n	<li>Restart the Terminal Services Licensing service on the Terminal Services license server.</li>\n</ul>\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nTo perform these tasks, refer to the following sections.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nNote:  If the license server is installed on a domain controller, the Network Service account also needs to be a member of the Terminal Server License Servers group.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAdd the computer account by using Active Directory Users and Computers\n\n&nbsp;\n<ul>\n	<li>To perform this procedure, you must have membership in the Domain Admins group in AD DS, or you must have been delegated the appropriate authority.</li>\n</ul>\n&nbsp;\n\nTo add the account to the group:\n\n&nbsp;\n<ol>\n	<li>Open Active Directory Users and Computers. To open Active Directory Users and Computers, log on to a computer where Active Directory Users and Computers is installed (for example, an AD DS domain controller), click Start, click Run, type dsa.msc, and then click OK.</li>\n	<li>If the User Account Control dialog box appears, confirm that the action it displays is what you want, and then click Continue.</li>\n	<li>Locate the Terminal Server License Servers group. By default, the Terminal Server License Servers group is located in the Builtin container.</li>\n	<li>Right-click Terminal Server License Servers and then click Properties.</li>\n	<li>On the Members tab, click Add.</li>\n	<li>Click Object Types, select the Computers check box, and then click OK.</li>\n	<li>In the Enter the object name to select box, type the name of the license server that you want to add to the Terminal Server License Servers group. If the license server is installed on a domain controller, add the Network Service account.</li>\n	<li>Click OK, and then click OK.</li>\n</ol>\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nTo add new ACL to the root to allow the Terminal Server License Servers to read and write the following properties for all users in the domain:\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n<ol>\n	<li>Right-click on the root of the domain and choose Properties and check out the security tab.</li>\n	<li>Select the read and write permissions box for the following:\n<ol>\n	<li>Read msTSExpireDate</li>\n	<li>Write msTSExpireDate</li>\n	<li>Read msTSLicenseVersion</li>\n	<li>Write msTSLicenseVersion</li>\n	<li>Make sure each user “Include inheritable permissions from this object’s parent” property checked.\n<ol>\n	<li>(View -&gt; Advanced Features then right-click on user -&gt; Properties -&gt; Security tab -&gt; Advanced -&gt; “Include inheritable …” checkbox on the lower left)</li>\n</ol>\n</li>\n</ol>\n</li>\n</ol>\n&nbsp;\n\nRestart the Terminal Services Licensing service on the license server. To restart the Terminal Services Licensing service, see the section titled \"Restart the Terminal Services Licensing service.\" Refer to link for the correct steps to restart the Terminal Services Licensing Service. <a href=\"http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc775179(v=ws.10).aspx\">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc775179(v=ws.10).aspx</a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nPlease test by having a standard user logon to your RDS.  After the user has logged on, check the event logs of the server, there should not be an event id 4105 Warning for the user in the System log, and there should be an event id 4143 Information entry for the user under Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-Licensing/Admin log.\n\n&nbsp;','','','draft','open','open','','','','','2012-05-31 20:46:10','2012-05-31 20:46:10','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=6756',0,'post','',0),(6757,38,'2012-05-31 20:44:36','2012-05-31 20:44:36','','Blog TSLS','','inherit','open','open','','blog-tsls','','','2012-05-31 20:44:36','2012-05-31 20:44:36','',6756,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Blog-TSLS.docx',0,'attachment','application/msword',0),(6759,38,'2012-05-31 20:55:56','2012-05-31 20:55:56','While doing to some simple trouble shooting on what I thought would be a walk in the park, I ran into a few problems trying to update the terminal server license attributes for user.  My users were constantly getting an error 4105 (see below; Event Details).\r\n\r\nAfter some digging, I ran across a very helpful Windows Server form (<a href=\"http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc775179(v=ws.10).aspx\">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc775179(v=ws.10).aspx</a>). Once the steps were correctly implemented and the restarting of the services, still no fix. Long story short, I later realized that this helpful form was missing a few important steps.\r\n\r\nEvent Details\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>Product:</strong></td>\r\n<td>Windows Operating System</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>ID:</strong></td>\r\n<td>4105</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>Source:</strong></td>\r\n<td>Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-Licensing</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>Version:</strong></td>\r\n<td>6.0</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>Symbolic Name:</strong></td>\r\n<td>TLS_W_PU_AD_UPDATE</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>Message:</strong></td>\r\n<td>The Terminal Services license   server cannot update the license attributes for user \"%1!s!\" in the   Active Directory Domain \"%2!s!\". Ensure that the computer account   for the license server is a member of Terminal Server License Servers group   in Active Directory domain \"%2!s!\".\r\nIf the license server is installed on a domain controller, the Network   Service account also needs to be a member of the Terminal Server License   Servers group.\r\nIf the license server is installed on a domain controller, after you have   added the appropriate accounts to the Terminal Server License Servers group,   you must restart the Terminal Services Licensing service to track or report   the usage of TS Per User CALs.\r\nWin32 error code: %3!s!</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<strong>Resolve</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Add the license server to the Terminal Server License Servers group and restart the Terminal Services Licensing service</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>To resolve this issue, do the following:</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Add the computer account for the license server to the Terminal Server License Servers group in Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS).</li>\r\n	<li>Restart the Terminal Services Licensing service on the Terminal Services license server.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<em>To perform these tasks, refer to the following sections.</em>\r\n\r\n<strong>Note:</strong>  If the license server is installed on a domain controller, the Network Service account also needs to be a member of the Terminal Server License Servers group.\r\n\r\n<strong>Add the computer account by using Active Directory Users and Computers</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>To perform this procedure, you must have membership in the Domain Admins group in AD DS, or you must have been delegated the appropriate authority.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>To add the account to the group:</strong>\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Open Active Directory Users and Computers. To open Active Directory Users and Computers, log on to a computer where Active Directory Users and Computers is installed (for example, an AD DS domain controller), click Start, click Run, type dsa.msc, and then click OK.</li>\r\n	<li>If the User Account Control dialog box appears, confirm that the action it displays is what you want, and then click Continue.</li>\r\n	<li>Locate the Terminal Server License Servers group. By default, the Terminal Server License Servers group is located in the Builtin container.</li>\r\n	<li>Right-click Terminal Server License Servers and then click Properties.</li>\r\n	<li>On the Members tab, click Add.</li>\r\n	<li>Click Object Types, select the Computers check box, and then click OK.</li>\r\n	<li>In the Enter the object name to select box, type the name of the license server that you want to add to the Terminal Server License Servers group. If the license server is installed on a domain controller, add the Network Service account.</li>\r\n	<li>Click OK, and then click OK.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<strong>To add new ACL to the root to allow the Terminal Server License Servers to read and write the following properties for all users in the domain:</strong>\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Right-click on the root of the domain and choose Properties and check out the security tab.</li>\r\n	<li>Select the read and write permissions box for the following:</li>\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Read msTSExpireDate</li>\r\n	<li>Write msTSExpireDate</li>\r\n	<li>Read msTSLicenseVersion</li>\r\n	<li>Write msTSLicenseVersion</li>\r\n	<li>Make sure each user “Include inheritable permissions from this object’s parent” property checked.</li>\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>(View -&gt; Advanced Features then right-click on user -&gt; Properties -&gt; Security tab -&gt; Advanced -&gt; “Include inheritable …” checkbox on the lower left)</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</ol>\r\n</ol>\r\n<strong>Restart the Terminal Services Licensing service on the license server.</strong>\r\n\r\nTo restart the Terminal Services Licensing service, see the section titled \"Restart the Terminal Services Licensing service.\" Refer to link for the correct steps to restart the Terminal Services Licensing Service. <a href=\"http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc775179(v=ws.10).aspx\">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc775179(v=ws.10).aspx</a>\r\n\r\nPlease test by having a standard user logon to your RDS.  After the user has logged on, check the event logs of the server, there should not be an event id 4105 Warning for the user in the System log, and there should be an event id 4143 Information entry for the user under Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-Licensing/Admin log.','Error 4105 – Terminal Server License Issue','','publish','open','open','','error-4105-terminal-server-license-issue','','','2012-05-31 20:55:56','2012-05-31 20:55:56','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=6759',0,'post','',0),(6760,38,'2012-05-31 20:52:07','2012-05-31 20:52:07','While doing to some simple trouble shooting on what I thought would be a walk in the park, I ran into a few problems trying to update the terminal server license attributes for user.  My users were constantly getting an error 4105 (see below; Event Details).\n\nAfter some digging, I ran across a very helpful Windows Server form (<a href=\"http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc775179(v=ws.10).aspx\">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc775179(v=ws.10).aspx</a>). Once the steps were correctly implemented and the restarting of the services, still no fix. Long story short, I later realized that this helpful form was missing a few important steps.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nEvent Details\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Product:</strong></td>\n<td>Windows Operating System</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>ID:</strong></td>\n<td>4105</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Source:</strong></td>\n<td>Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-Licensing</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Version:</strong></td>\n<td>6.0</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Symbolic Name:</strong></td>\n<td>TLS_W_PU_AD_UPDATE</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Message:</strong></td>\n<td>The Terminal Services license   server cannot update the license attributes for user \"%1!s!\" in the   Active Directory Domain \"%2!s!\". Ensure that the computer account   for the license server is a member of Terminal Server License Servers group   in Active Directory domain \"%2!s!\".\nIf the license server is installed on a domain controller, the Network   Service account also needs to be a member of the Terminal Server License   Servers group.\nIf the license server is installed on a domain controller, after you have   added the appropriate accounts to the Terminal Server License Servers group,   you must restart the Terminal Services Licensing service to track or report   the usage of TS Per User CALs.\nWin32 error code: %3!s!</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong>Resolve</strong>\n<ul>\n	<li>Add the license server to the Terminal Server License Servers group and restart the Terminal Services Licensing service</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>To resolve this issue, do the following:</strong>\n<ul>\n	<li>Add the computer account for the license server to the Terminal Server License Servers group in Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS).</li>\n	<li>Restart the Terminal Services Licensing service on the Terminal Services license server.</li>\n</ul>\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>To perform these tasks, refer to the following sections.</em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong>Note:</strong>  If the license server is installed on a domain controller, the Network Service account also needs to be a member of the Terminal Server License Servers group.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong>Add the computer account by using Active Directory Users and Computers</strong>\n<ul>\n	<li>To perform this procedure, you must have membership in the Domain Admins group in AD DS, or you must have been delegated the appropriate authority.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>To add the account to the group:</strong>\n<ol>\n	<li>Open Active Directory Users and Computers. To open Active Directory Users and Computers, log on to a computer where Active Directory Users and Computers is installed (for example, an AD DS domain controller), click Start, click Run, type dsa.msc, and then click OK.</li>\n	<li>If the User Account Control dialog box appears, confirm that the action it displays is what you want, and then click Continue.</li>\n	<li>Locate the Terminal Server License Servers group. By default, the Terminal Server License Servers group is located in the Builtin container.</li>\n	<li>Right-click Terminal Server License Servers and then click Properties.</li>\n	<li>On the Members tab, click Add.</li>\n	<li>Click Object Types, select the Computers check box, and then click OK.</li>\n	<li>In the Enter the object name to select box, type the name of the license server that you want to add to the Terminal Server License Servers group. If the license server is installed on a domain controller, add the Network Service account.</li>\n	<li>Click OK, and then click OK.</li>\n</ol>\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong>To add new ACL to the root to allow the Terminal Server License Servers to read and write the following properties for all users in the domain:</strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n<ol>\n	<li>Right-click on the root of the domain and choose Properties and check out the security tab.</li>\n	<li>Select the read and write permissions box for the following:\n<ol>\n	<li>Read msTSExpireDate</li>\n	<li>Write msTSExpireDate</li>\n	<li>Read msTSLicenseVersion</li>\n	<li>Write msTSLicenseVersion</li>\n	<li>Make sure each user “Include inheritable permissions from this object’s parent” property checked.\n<ol>\n	<li>(View -&gt; Advanced Features then right-click on user -&gt; Properties -&gt; Security tab -&gt; Advanced -&gt; “Include inheritable …” checkbox on the lower left)</li>\n</ol>\n</li>\n</ol>\n</li>\n</ol>\nRestart the Terminal Services Licensing service on the license server. To restart the Terminal Services Licensing service, see the section titled \"Restart the Terminal Services Licensing service.\" Refer to link for the correct steps to restart the Terminal Services Licensing Service. <a href=\"http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc775179(v=ws.10).aspx\">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc775179(v=ws.10).aspx</a>\n\nPlease test by having a standard user logon to your RDS.  After the user has logged on, check the event logs of the server, there should not be an event id 4105 Warning for the user in the System log, and there should be an event id 4143 Information entry for the user under Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-Licensing/Admin log.','Error 4105 – Terminal Server License Issue','','inherit','open','open','','6759-revision','','','2012-05-31 20:52:07','2012-05-31 20:52:07','',6759,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6759-revision',0,'revision','',0),(6763,38,'2012-05-31 20:55:36','2012-05-31 20:55:36','While doing to some simple trouble shooting on what I thought would be a walk in the park, I ran into a few problems trying to update the terminal server license attributes for user.  My users were constantly getting an error 4105 (see below; Event Details).\r\n\r\nAfter some digging, I ran across a very helpful Windows Server form (<a href=\"http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc775179(v=ws.10).aspx\">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc775179(v=ws.10).aspx</a>). Once the steps were correctly implemented and the restarting of the services, still no fix. Long story short, I later realized that this helpful form was missing a few important steps.\r\n\r\nEvent Details\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>Product:</strong></td>\r\n<td>Windows Operating System</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>ID:</strong></td>\r\n<td>4105</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>Source:</strong></td>\r\n<td>Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-Licensing</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>Version:</strong></td>\r\n<td>6.0</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>Symbolic Name:</strong></td>\r\n<td>TLS_W_PU_AD_UPDATE</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>Message:</strong></td>\r\n<td>The Terminal Services license   server cannot update the license attributes for user \"%1!s!\" in the   Active Directory Domain \"%2!s!\". Ensure that the computer account   for the license server is a member of Terminal Server License Servers group   in Active Directory domain \"%2!s!\".\r\nIf the license server is installed on a domain controller, the Network   Service account also needs to be a member of the Terminal Server License   Servers group.\r\nIf the license server is installed on a domain controller, after you have   added the appropriate accounts to the Terminal Server License Servers group,   you must restart the Terminal Services Licensing service to track or report   the usage of TS Per User CALs.\r\nWin32 error code: %3!s!</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<strong>Resolve</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Add the license server to the Terminal Server License Servers group and restart the Terminal Services Licensing service</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>To resolve this issue, do the following:</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Add the computer account for the license server to the Terminal Server License Servers group in Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS).</li>\r\n	<li>Restart the Terminal Services Licensing service on the Terminal Services license server.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<em>To perform these tasks, refer to the following sections.</em>\r\n\r\n<strong>Note:</strong>  If the license server is installed on a domain controller, the Network Service account also needs to be a member of the Terminal Server License Servers group.\r\n\r\n<strong>Add the computer account by using Active Directory Users and Computers</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>To perform this procedure, you must have membership in the Domain Admins group in AD DS, or you must have been delegated the appropriate authority.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>To add the account to the group:</strong>\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Open Active Directory Users and Computers. To open Active Directory Users and Computers, log on to a computer where Active Directory Users and Computers is installed (for example, an AD DS domain controller), click Start, click Run, type dsa.msc, and then click OK.</li>\r\n	<li>If the User Account Control dialog box appears, confirm that the action it displays is what you want, and then click Continue.</li>\r\n	<li>Locate the Terminal Server License Servers group. By default, the Terminal Server License Servers group is located in the Builtin container.</li>\r\n	<li>Right-click Terminal Server License Servers and then click Properties.</li>\r\n	<li>On the Members tab, click Add.</li>\r\n	<li>Click Object Types, select the Computers check box, and then click OK.</li>\r\n	<li>In the Enter the object name to select box, type the name of the license server that you want to add to the Terminal Server License Servers group. If the license server is installed on a domain controller, add the Network Service account.</li>\r\n	<li>Click OK, and then click OK.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<strong>To add new ACL to the root to allow the Terminal Server License Servers to read and write the following properties for all users in the domain:</strong>\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Right-click on the root of the domain and choose Properties and check out the security tab.</li>\r\n	<li>Select the read and write permissions box for the following:</li>\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Read msTSExpireDate</li>\r\n	<li>Write msTSExpireDate</li>\r\n	<li>Read msTSLicenseVersion</li>\r\n	<li>Write msTSLicenseVersion</li>\r\n	<li>Make sure each user “Include inheritable permissions from this object’s parent” property checked.</li>\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>(View -&gt; Advanced Features then right-click on user -&gt; Properties -&gt; Security tab -&gt; Advanced -&gt; “Include inheritable …” checkbox on the lower left)</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</ol>\r\n</ol>\r\n<strong>Restart the Terminal Services Licensing service on the license server.</strong>\r\n\r\nTo restart the Terminal Services Licensing service, see the section titled \"Restart the Terminal Services Licensing service.\" Refer to link for the correct steps to restart the Terminal Services Licensing Service. <a href=\"http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc775179(v=ws.10).aspx\">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc775179(v=ws.10).aspx</a>\r\n\r\nPlease test by having a standard user logon to your RDS.  After the user has logged on, check the event logs of the server, there should not be an event id 4105 Warning for the user in the System log, and there should be an event id 4143 Information entry for the user under Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-Licensing/Admin log.','Error 4105 – Terminal Server License Issue','','inherit','open','open','','6759-revision-4','','','2012-05-31 20:55:36','2012-05-31 20:55:36','',6759,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6759-revision-4',0,'revision','',0),(6761,38,'2012-05-31 20:54:43','2012-05-31 20:54:43','While doing to some simple trouble shooting on what I thought would be a walk in the park, I ran into a few problems trying to update the terminal server license attributes for user.  My users were constantly getting an error 4105 (see below; Event Details).\r\n\r\nAfter some digging, I ran across a very helpful Windows Server form (<a href=\"http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc775179(v=ws.10).aspx\">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc775179(v=ws.10).aspx</a>). Once the steps were correctly implemented and the restarting of the services, still no fix. Long story short, I later realized that this helpful form was missing a few important steps.\r\n\r\nEvent Details\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>Product:</strong></td>\r\n<td>Windows Operating System</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>ID:</strong></td>\r\n<td>4105</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>Source:</strong></td>\r\n<td>Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-Licensing</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>Version:</strong></td>\r\n<td>6.0</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>Symbolic Name:</strong></td>\r\n<td>TLS_W_PU_AD_UPDATE</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>Message:</strong></td>\r\n<td>The Terminal Services license   server cannot update the license attributes for user \"%1!s!\" in the   Active Directory Domain \"%2!s!\". Ensure that the computer account   for the license server is a member of Terminal Server License Servers group   in Active Directory domain \"%2!s!\".\r\nIf the license server is installed on a domain controller, the Network   Service account also needs to be a member of the Terminal Server License   Servers group.\r\nIf the license server is installed on a domain controller, after you have   added the appropriate accounts to the Terminal Server License Servers group,   you must restart the Terminal Services Licensing service to track or report   the usage of TS Per User CALs.\r\nWin32 error code: %3!s!</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<strong>Resolve</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Add the license server to the Terminal Server License Servers group and restart the Terminal Services Licensing service</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>To resolve this issue, do the following:</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Add the computer account for the license server to the Terminal Server License Servers group in Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS).</li>\r\n	<li>Restart the Terminal Services Licensing service on the Terminal Services license server.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>To perform these tasks, refer to the following sections.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Note:</strong>  If the license server is installed on a domain controller, the Network Service account also needs to be a member of the Terminal Server License Servers group.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Add the computer account by using Active Directory Users and Computers</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>To perform this procedure, you must have membership in the Domain Admins group in AD DS, or you must have been delegated the appropriate authority.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>To add the account to the group:</strong>\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Open Active Directory Users and Computers. To open Active Directory Users and Computers, log on to a computer where Active Directory Users and Computers is installed (for example, an AD DS domain controller), click Start, click Run, type dsa.msc, and then click OK.</li>\r\n	<li>If the User Account Control dialog box appears, confirm that the action it displays is what you want, and then click Continue.</li>\r\n	<li>Locate the Terminal Server License Servers group. By default, the Terminal Server License Servers group is located in the Builtin container.</li>\r\n	<li>Right-click Terminal Server License Servers and then click Properties.</li>\r\n	<li>On the Members tab, click Add.</li>\r\n	<li>Click Object Types, select the Computers check box, and then click OK.</li>\r\n	<li>In the Enter the object name to select box, type the name of the license server that you want to add to the Terminal Server License Servers group. If the license server is installed on a domain controller, add the Network Service account.</li>\r\n	<li>Click OK, and then click OK.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>To add new ACL to the root to allow the Terminal Server License Servers to read and write the following properties for all users in the domain:</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Right-click on the root of the domain and choose Properties and check out the security tab.</li>\r\n	<li>Select the read and write permissions box for the following:</li>\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Read msTSExpireDate</li>\r\n	<li>Write msTSExpireDate</li>\r\n	<li>Read msTSLicenseVersion</li>\r\n	<li>Write msTSLicenseVersion</li>\r\n	<li>Make sure each user “Include inheritable permissions from this object’s parent” property checked.</li>\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>(View -&gt; Advanced Features then right-click on user -&gt; Properties -&gt; Security tab -&gt; Advanced -&gt; “Include inheritable …” checkbox on the lower left)</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</ol>\r\n</ol>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Restart the Terminal Services Licensing service on the license server.</strong>\r\n\r\nTo restart the Terminal Services Licensing service, see the section titled \"Restart the Terminal Services Licensing service.\" Refer to link for the correct steps to restart the Terminal Services Licensing Service. <a href=\"http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc775179(v=ws.10).aspx\">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc775179(v=ws.10).aspx</a>\r\n\r\nPlease test by having a standard user logon to your RDS.  After the user has logged on, check the event logs of the server, there should not be an event id 4105 Warning for the user in the System log, and there should be an event id 4143 Information entry for the user under Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-Licensing/Admin log.','Error 4105 – Terminal Server License Issue','','inherit','open','open','','6759-revision-2','','','2012-05-31 20:54:43','2012-05-31 20:54:43','',6759,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6759-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(6762,38,'2012-05-31 20:54:50','2012-05-31 20:54:50','While doing to some simple trouble shooting on what I thought would be a walk in the park, I ran into a few problems trying to update the terminal server license attributes for user.  My users were constantly getting an error 4105 (see below; Event Details).\r\n\r\nAfter some digging, I ran across a very helpful Windows Server form (<a href=\"http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc775179(v=ws.10).aspx\">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc775179(v=ws.10).aspx</a>). Once the steps were correctly implemented and the restarting of the services, still no fix. Long story short, I later realized that this helpful form was missing a few important steps.\r\n\r\nEvent Details\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>Product:</strong></td>\r\n<td>Windows Operating System</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>ID:</strong></td>\r\n<td>4105</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>Source:</strong></td>\r\n<td>Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-Licensing</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>Version:</strong></td>\r\n<td>6.0</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>Symbolic Name:</strong></td>\r\n<td>TLS_W_PU_AD_UPDATE</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>Message:</strong></td>\r\n<td>The Terminal Services license   server cannot update the license attributes for user \"%1!s!\" in the   Active Directory Domain \"%2!s!\". Ensure that the computer account   for the license server is a member of Terminal Server License Servers group   in Active Directory domain \"%2!s!\".\r\nIf the license server is installed on a domain controller, the Network   Service account also needs to be a member of the Terminal Server License   Servers group.\r\nIf the license server is installed on a domain controller, after you have   added the appropriate accounts to the Terminal Server License Servers group,   you must restart the Terminal Services Licensing service to track or report   the usage of TS Per User CALs.\r\nWin32 error code: %3!s!</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<strong>Resolve</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Add the license server to the Terminal Server License Servers group and restart the Terminal Services Licensing service</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>To resolve this issue, do the following:</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Add the computer account for the license server to the Terminal Server License Servers group in Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS).</li>\r\n	<li>Restart the Terminal Services Licensing service on the Terminal Services license server.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>To perform these tasks, refer to the following sections.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Note:</strong>  If the license server is installed on a domain controller, the Network Service account also needs to be a member of the Terminal Server License Servers group.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Add the computer account by using Active Directory Users and Computers</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>To perform this procedure, you must have membership in the Domain Admins group in AD DS, or you must have been delegated the appropriate authority.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>To add the account to the group:</strong>\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Open Active Directory Users and Computers. To open Active Directory Users and Computers, log on to a computer where Active Directory Users and Computers is installed (for example, an AD DS domain controller), click Start, click Run, type dsa.msc, and then click OK.</li>\r\n	<li>If the User Account Control dialog box appears, confirm that the action it displays is what you want, and then click Continue.</li>\r\n	<li>Locate the Terminal Server License Servers group. By default, the Terminal Server License Servers group is located in the Builtin container.</li>\r\n	<li>Right-click Terminal Server License Servers and then click Properties.</li>\r\n	<li>On the Members tab, click Add.</li>\r\n	<li>Click Object Types, select the Computers check box, and then click OK.</li>\r\n	<li>In the Enter the object name to select box, type the name of the license server that you want to add to the Terminal Server License Servers group. If the license server is installed on a domain controller, add the Network Service account.</li>\r\n	<li>Click OK, and then click OK.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>To add new ACL to the root to allow the Terminal Server License Servers to read and write the following properties for all users in the domain:</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Right-click on the root of the domain and choose Properties and check out the security tab.</li>\r\n	<li>Select the read and write permissions box for the following:</li>\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Read msTSExpireDate</li>\r\n	<li>Write msTSExpireDate</li>\r\n	<li>Read msTSLicenseVersion</li>\r\n	<li>Write msTSLicenseVersion</li>\r\n	<li>Make sure each user “Include inheritable permissions from this object’s parent” property checked.</li>\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>(View -&gt; Advanced Features then right-click on user -&gt; Properties -&gt; Security tab -&gt; Advanced -&gt; “Include inheritable …” checkbox on the lower left)</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</ol>\r\n</ol>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Restart the Terminal Services Licensing service on the license server.</strong>\r\n\r\nTo restart the Terminal Services Licensing service, see the section titled \"Restart the Terminal Services Licensing service.\" Refer to link for the correct steps to restart the Terminal Services Licensing Service. <a href=\"http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc775179(v=ws.10).aspx\">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc775179(v=ws.10).aspx</a>\r\n\r\nPlease test by having a standard user logon to your RDS.  After the user has logged on, check the event logs of the server, there should not be an event id 4105 Warning for the user in the System log, and there should be an event id 4143 Information entry for the user under Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-Licensing/Admin log.','Error 4105 – Terminal Server License Issue','','inherit','open','open','','6759-revision-3','','','2012-05-31 20:54:50','2012-05-31 20:54:50','',6759,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6759-revision-3',0,'revision','',0),(6764,38,'2012-05-31 20:55:40','2012-05-31 20:55:40','While doing to some simple trouble shooting on what I thought would be a walk in the park, I ran into a few problems trying to update the terminal server license attributes for user.  My users were constantly getting an error 4105 (see below; Event Details).\r\n\r\nAfter some digging, I ran across a very helpful Windows Server form (<a href=\"http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc775179(v=ws.10).aspx\">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc775179(v=ws.10).aspx</a>). Once the steps were correctly implemented and the restarting of the services, still no fix. Long story short, I later realized that this helpful form was missing a few important steps.\r\n\r\nEvent Details\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>Product:</strong></td>\r\n<td>Windows Operating System</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>ID:</strong></td>\r\n<td>4105</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>Source:</strong></td>\r\n<td>Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-Licensing</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>Version:</strong></td>\r\n<td>6.0</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>Symbolic Name:</strong></td>\r\n<td>TLS_W_PU_AD_UPDATE</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>Message:</strong></td>\r\n<td>The Terminal Services license   server cannot update the license attributes for user \"%1!s!\" in the   Active Directory Domain \"%2!s!\". Ensure that the computer account   for the license server is a member of Terminal Server License Servers group   in Active Directory domain \"%2!s!\".\r\nIf the license server is installed on a domain controller, the Network   Service account also needs to be a member of the Terminal Server License   Servers group.\r\nIf the license server is installed on a domain controller, after you have   added the appropriate accounts to the Terminal Server License Servers group,   you must restart the Terminal Services Licensing service to track or report   the usage of TS Per User CALs.\r\nWin32 error code: %3!s!</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<strong>Resolve</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Add the license server to the Terminal Server License Servers group and restart the Terminal Services Licensing service</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>To resolve this issue, do the following:</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Add the computer account for the license server to the Terminal Server License Servers group in Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS).</li>\r\n	<li>Restart the Terminal Services Licensing service on the Terminal Services license server.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<em>To perform these tasks, refer to the following sections.</em>\r\n\r\n<strong>Note:</strong>  If the license server is installed on a domain controller, the Network Service account also needs to be a member of the Terminal Server License Servers group.\r\n\r\n<strong>Add the computer account by using Active Directory Users and Computers</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>To perform this procedure, you must have membership in the Domain Admins group in AD DS, or you must have been delegated the appropriate authority.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>To add the account to the group:</strong>\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Open Active Directory Users and Computers. To open Active Directory Users and Computers, log on to a computer where Active Directory Users and Computers is installed (for example, an AD DS domain controller), click Start, click Run, type dsa.msc, and then click OK.</li>\r\n	<li>If the User Account Control dialog box appears, confirm that the action it displays is what you want, and then click Continue.</li>\r\n	<li>Locate the Terminal Server License Servers group. By default, the Terminal Server License Servers group is located in the Builtin container.</li>\r\n	<li>Right-click Terminal Server License Servers and then click Properties.</li>\r\n	<li>On the Members tab, click Add.</li>\r\n	<li>Click Object Types, select the Computers check box, and then click OK.</li>\r\n	<li>In the Enter the object name to select box, type the name of the license server that you want to add to the Terminal Server License Servers group. If the license server is installed on a domain controller, add the Network Service account.</li>\r\n	<li>Click OK, and then click OK.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<strong>To add new ACL to the root to allow the Terminal Server License Servers to read and write the following properties for all users in the domain:</strong>\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Right-click on the root of the domain and choose Properties and check out the security tab.</li>\r\n	<li>Select the read and write permissions box for the following:</li>\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Read msTSExpireDate</li>\r\n	<li>Write msTSExpireDate</li>\r\n	<li>Read msTSLicenseVersion</li>\r\n	<li>Write msTSLicenseVersion</li>\r\n	<li>Make sure each user “Include inheritable permissions from this object’s parent” property checked.</li>\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>(View -&gt; Advanced Features then right-click on user -&gt; Properties -&gt; Security tab -&gt; Advanced -&gt; “Include inheritable …” checkbox on the lower left)</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</ol>\r\n</ol>\r\n<strong>Restart the Terminal Services Licensing service on the license server.</strong>\r\n\r\nTo restart the Terminal Services Licensing service, see the section titled \"Restart the Terminal Services Licensing service.\" Refer to link for the correct steps to restart the Terminal Services Licensing Service. <a href=\"http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc775179(v=ws.10).aspx\">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc775179(v=ws.10).aspx</a>\r\n\r\nPlease test by having a standard user logon to your RDS.  After the user has logged on, check the event logs of the server, there should not be an event id 4105 Warning for the user in the System log, and there should be an event id 4143 Information entry for the user under Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-Licensing/Admin log.','Error 4105 – Terminal Server License Issue','','inherit','open','open','','6759-revision-5','','','2012-05-31 20:55:40','2012-05-31 20:55:40','',6759,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6759-revision-5',0,'revision','',0),(6772,44,'2012-06-08 13:13:29','2012-06-08 13:13:29','<em>An IPv4 packet walks into a bar and says “Give me a CIDR, I’m exhausted.”</em>\n\nThis past Wednesday, June 6<sup>th</sup>, 2012 was World IPv6 Day.  Major ISPs, web companies and networking equipment manufacturers joined forces to permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services - <a href=\"http://www.worldipv6day.org/\">http://www.worldipv6day.org/</a> .\n\n<strong>Fantastic.  Now what?</strong>\n\nFor the average user, it may have been a little anti-climactic. The internet worked the same for them as it did on Tuesday. For companies like Google and Facebook, it marked the point of no return for supporting IPv6 to the world, and their customers.  Here’s <a href=\"http://www.networkcomputing.com/ipv6-tech-center/240001572?pgno=1\">A Snapshot of IPv6</a> and a few facts and figures to help put this world-wide event in perspective as written by Mike Fratto with Network Computing.\n\nIf you’re learning about IPv6 for the first time, or need help catching up, <a href=\"http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/ipv6/basics/\">here’s</a> a great place to start.  If you like to low-crawl through the weeds, check out the title <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/IPv6-Enterprise-Networks-Networking-Technology/dp/1587142279\"><em>IPv6 for Enterprise Networks</em></a> by Cisco Press. It’s an excellent reference whether you’re planning your IPv6 transition or configuring EIGRPv6.  This book was also used as a reference to write this blog, so if I’ve sparked your curiosity in learning more about IPv6 it’s a must-read.\n\n<strong>IPv6 in the Data Center</strong>\n\nAssuming you know a little about IPv6, let\'s explore a much over-looked area of IPv6 deployment – the data center.  Today’s virtualized data centers offer unique considerations to IPv6 deployment than that of a typical campus network. Let’s consider the following:\n\n&lt;!more&gt;\n\n-          Virtualization of compute, network, and storage technologies\n\n-          Operating systems and mission critical applications\n\n-          Disaster recovery and high availability\n\nThis is by no means a comprehensive list, but these considerations definitely hit close to home to me, and if you use any of the technologies above, they should for you as well.\n\nAs many have learned and experienced, virtualization can increase business agility, lower costs, provide high availability and so much more. Platforms like Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) unify network, storage access, and server virtualization into a complete, easy to manage system.  Paired with a virtualization suite like VMware vSphere 5, managing thousands of Virtual Machines (VMs) from a centralized point of management becomes trivial.  This ease in administration does come at the cost of complexity when deciding how to support IPv6 all the way from your service provider down to your most critical application on a VM.\n\nWhether that application is on a UCS, being hosted in the Cloud, or on a physical server, you still have to manage and secure your data, and you’ll need to ensure your DR plan can execute over IPv6 to that site you’ve never been to in the middle of a cornfield in Nebraska.  Luckily, Cisco UCS and VMware vSphere 5 are both IPv6 ready, as are most recent operating systems and applications.\n\n<strong>Planning the Transition</strong>\n\nLeading the way, several governments have already started the transition to IPv6 through government directives.  For example, the United States, Australia, India, and Korea all have directives in action to transition to IPv6 by 2014.\n\nMake no mistake - deploying IPv6 for your enterprise will not be completed overnight. IPv4 will still probably be used for the next couple of decades with a slow, incremental transition to IPv6.  Each enterprise will have to decide when to transition based on their own business incentives, customer locations, and infrastructure costs.  There are a few requirements applicable to almost everyone.  The transition to IPv6 must…\n\n-          Not impact existing services\n\n-          Co-exist with IPv4 infrastructure\n\n-          Be low in cost\n\n-          Be transparent to the end user\n\nThere are plenty of options when it comes to deciding how you’ll transition and each data center has it’s own challenges and considerations.  Stay educated, plan for the future, and trust that the day will come when more of your customers are using IPv6 than IPv4. That day won’t be today or tomorrow, but it will come eventually.  Whether or not your infrastructure is prepared to service and support those customers in the future will depend on the choices you make today.\n\n<strong>Conclusion</strong>\n\nNot ready for IPv6? Don’t worry - there’s no need to panic or sell the farm.  As mentioned before, the adoption of IPv6 has been slow thus far so you definitely have some time to plan.  As it stands, we’re caught in a bit of a Catch-22.  Vendors don’t want to go “all-in” because of the lack of business incentive for implementing IPv6, and customers and companies who want to adopt native IPv6 aren’t able to without end-to-end support from vendors and providers.  Hopefully events like World IPv6 Day will help increase the necessary awareness and visibility to ensure a smooth transition for everyone.','TRANSITIONING TO IPV6 IN THE DATA CENTER','','inherit','open','open','','6771-revision','','','2012-06-08 13:13:29','2012-06-08 13:13:29','',6771,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6771-revision',0,'revision','',0),(6773,44,'2012-06-08 13:13:41','2012-06-08 13:13:41','<em>An IPv4 packet walks into a bar and says “Give me a CIDR, I’m exhausted.”</em>\r\n\r\nThis past Wednesday, June 6<sup>th</sup>, 2012 was World IPv6 Day.  Major ISPs, web companies and networking equipment manufacturers joined forces to permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services - <a href=\"http://www.worldipv6day.org/\">http://www.worldipv6day.org/</a> .\r\n\r\n<strong>Fantastic.  Now what?</strong>\r\n\r\nFor the average user, it may have been a little anti-climactic. The internet worked the same for them as it did on Tuesday. For companies like Google and Facebook, it marked the point of no return for supporting IPv6 to the world, and their customers.  Here’s <a href=\"http://www.networkcomputing.com/ipv6-tech-center/240001572?pgno=1\">A Snapshot of IPv6</a> and a few facts and figures to help put this world-wide event in perspective as written by Mike Fratto with Network Computing.\r\n\r\nIf you’re learning about IPv6 for the first time, or need help catching up, <a href=\"http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/ipv6/basics/\">here’s</a> a great place to start.  If you like to low-crawl through the weeds, check out the title <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/IPv6-Enterprise-Networks-Networking-Technology/dp/1587142279\"><em>IPv6 for Enterprise Networks</em></a> by Cisco Press. It’s an excellent reference whether you’re planning your IPv6 transition or configuring EIGRPv6.  This book was also used as a reference to write this blog, so if I’ve sparked your curiosity in learning more about IPv6 it’s a must-read.\r\n\r\n<strong>IPv6 in the Data Center</strong>\r\n\r\nAssuming you know a little about IPv6, let\'s explore a much over-looked area of IPv6 deployment – the data center.  Today’s virtualized data centers offer unique considerations to IPv6 deployment than that of a typical campus network. Let’s consider the following:\r\n\r\n&lt;!more&gt;\r\n\r\n-          Virtualization of compute, network, and storage technologies\r\n\r\n-          Operating systems and mission critical applications\r\n\r\n-          Disaster recovery and high availability\r\n\r\nThis is by no means a comprehensive list, but these considerations definitely hit close to home to me, and if you use any of the technologies above, they should for you as well.\r\n\r\nAs many have learned and experienced, virtualization can increase business agility, lower costs, provide high availability and so much more. Platforms like Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) unify network, storage access, and server virtualization into a complete, easy to manage system.  Paired with a virtualization suite like VMware vSphere 5, managing thousands of Virtual Machines (VMs) from a centralized point of management becomes trivial.  This ease in administration does come at the cost of complexity when deciding how to support IPv6 all the way from your service provider down to your most critical application on a VM.\r\n\r\nWhether that application is on a UCS, being hosted in the Cloud, or on a physical server, you still have to manage and secure your data, and you’ll need to ensure your DR plan can execute over IPv6 to that site you’ve never been to in the middle of a cornfield in Nebraska.  Luckily, Cisco UCS and VMware vSphere 5 are both IPv6 ready, as are most recent operating systems and applications.\r\n\r\n<strong>Planning the Transition</strong>\r\n\r\nLeading the way, several governments have already started the transition to IPv6 through government directives.  For example, the United States, Australia, India, and Korea all have directives in action to transition to IPv6 by 2014.\r\n\r\nMake no mistake - deploying IPv6 for your enterprise will not be completed overnight. IPv4 will still probably be used for the next couple of decades with a slow, incremental transition to IPv6.  Each enterprise will have to decide when to transition based on their own business incentives, customer locations, and infrastructure costs.  There are a few requirements applicable to almost everyone.  The transition to IPv6 must…\r\n\r\n-          Not impact existing services\r\n\r\n-          Co-exist with IPv4 infrastructure\r\n\r\n-          Be low in cost\r\n\r\n-          Be transparent to the end user\r\n\r\nThere are plenty of options when it comes to deciding how you’ll transition and each data center has it’s own challenges and considerations.  Stay educated, plan for the future, and trust that the day will come when more of your customers are using IPv6 than IPv4. That day won’t be today or tomorrow, but it will come eventually.  Whether or not your infrastructure is prepared to service and support those customers in the future will depend on the choices you make today.\r\n\r\n<strong>Conclusion</strong>\r\n\r\nNot ready for IPv6? Don’t worry - there’s no need to panic or sell the farm.  As mentioned before, the adoption of IPv6 has been slow thus far so you definitely have some time to plan.  As it stands, we’re caught in a bit of a Catch-22.  Vendors don’t want to go “all-in” because of the lack of business incentive for implementing IPv6, and customers and companies who want to adopt native IPv6 aren’t able to without end-to-end support from vendors and providers.  Hopefully events like World IPv6 Day will help increase the necessary awareness and visibility to ensure a smooth transition for everyone.','TRANSITIONING TO IPV6 IN THE DATA CENTER','','inherit','open','open','','6771-revision-2','','','2012-06-08 13:13:41','2012-06-08 13:13:41','',6771,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6771-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(6774,44,'2012-06-08 13:15:43','2012-06-08 13:15:43','<em>An IPv4 packet walks into a bar and says “Give me a CIDR, I’m exhausted.”</em>\r\n\r\nThis past Wednesday, June 6<sup>th</sup>, 2012 was World IPv6 Day.  Major ISPs, web companies and networking equipment manufacturers joined forces to permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services - <a href=\"http://www.worldipv6day.org/\">http://www.worldipv6day.org/</a> .\r\n\r\n<strong>Fantastic.  Now what?</strong>\r\n\r\nFor the average user, it may have been a little anti-climactic. The internet worked the same for them as it did on Tuesday. For companies like Google and Facebook, it marked the point of no return for supporting IPv6 to the world, and their customers.  Here’s <a href=\"http://www.networkcomputing.com/ipv6-tech-center/240001572?pgno=1\">A Snapshot of IPv6</a> and a few facts and figures to help put this world-wide event in perspective as written by Mike Fratto with Network Computing.\r\n\r\nIf you’re learning about IPv6 for the first time, or need help catching up, <a href=\"http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/ipv6/basics/\">here’s</a> a great place to start.  If you like to low-crawl through the weeds, check out the title <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/IPv6-Enterprise-Networks-Networking-Technology/dp/1587142279\"><em>IPv6 for Enterprise Networks</em></a> by Cisco Press. It’s an excellent reference whether you’re planning your IPv6 transition or configuring EIGRPv6.  This book was also used as a reference to write this blog, so if I’ve sparked your curiosity in learning more about IPv6 it’s a must-read.\r\n\r\n<strong>IPv6 in the Data Center</strong>\r\n\r\nAssuming you know a little about IPv6, let\'s explore a much over-looked area of IPv6 deployment – the data center.  Today’s virtualized data centers offer unique considerations to IPv6 deployment than that of a typical campus network. Let’s consider the following:\r\n\r\n-          Virtualization of compute, network, and storage technologies\r\n\r\n-          Operating systems and mission critical applications\r\n\r\n-          Disaster recovery and high availability\r\n\r\nThis is by no means a comprehensive list, but these considerations definitely hit close to home to me, and if you use any of the technologies above, they should for you as well.\r\n\r\nAs many have learned and experienced, virtualization can increase business agility, lower costs, provide high availability and so much more. Platforms like Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) unify network, storage access, and server virtualization into a complete, easy to manage system.  Paired with a virtualization suite like VMware vSphere 5, managing thousands of Virtual Machines (VMs) from a centralized point of management becomes trivial.  This ease in administration does come at the cost of complexity when deciding how to support IPv6 all the way from your service provider down to your most critical application on a VM.\r\n\r\nWhether that application is on a UCS, being hosted in the Cloud, or on a physical server, you still have to manage and secure your data, and you’ll need to ensure your DR plan can execute over IPv6 to that site you’ve never been to in the middle of a cornfield in Nebraska.  Luckily, Cisco UCS and VMware vSphere 5 are both IPv6 ready, as are most recent operating systems and applications.\r\n\r\n<strong>Planning the Transition</strong>\r\n\r\nLeading the way, several governments have already started the transition to IPv6 through government directives.  For example, the United States, Australia, India, and Korea all have directives in action to transition to IPv6 by 2014.\r\n\r\nMake no mistake - deploying IPv6 for your enterprise will not be completed overnight. IPv4 will still probably be used for the next couple of decades with a slow, incremental transition to IPv6.  Each enterprise will have to decide when to transition based on their own business incentives, customer locations, and infrastructure costs.  There are a few requirements applicable to almost everyone.  The transition to IPv6 must…\r\n\r\n-          Not impact existing services\r\n\r\n-          Co-exist with IPv4 infrastructure\r\n\r\n-          Be low in cost\r\n\r\n-          Be transparent to the end user\r\n\r\nThere are plenty of options when it comes to deciding how you’ll transition and each data center has it’s own challenges and considerations.  Stay educated, plan for the future, and trust that the day will come when more of your customers are using IPv6 than IPv4. That day won’t be today or tomorrow, but it will come eventually.  Whether or not your infrastructure is prepared to service and support those customers in the future will depend on the choices you make today.\r\n\r\n<strong>Conclusion</strong>\r\n\r\nNot ready for IPv6? Don’t worry - there’s no need to panic or sell the farm.  As mentioned before, the adoption of IPv6 has been slow thus far so you definitely have some time to plan.  As it stands, we’re caught in a bit of a Catch-22.  Vendors don’t want to go “all-in” because of the lack of business incentive for implementing IPv6, and customers and companies who want to adopt native IPv6 aren’t able to without end-to-end support from vendors and providers.  Hopefully events like World IPv6 Day will help increase the necessary awareness and visibility to ensure a smooth transition for everyone.','TRANSITIONING TO IPV6 IN THE DATA CENTER','','inherit','open','open','','6771-revision-3','','','2012-06-08 13:15:43','2012-06-08 13:15:43','',6771,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6771-revision-3',0,'revision','',0),(6775,44,'2012-06-08 13:17:08','2012-06-08 13:17:08','<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>An IPv4 packet walks into a bar and says “Give me a CIDR, I’m exhausted.”</em></p>\r\nThis past Wednesday, June 6<sup>th</sup>, 2012 was World IPv6 Day.  Major ISPs, web companies and networking equipment manufacturers joined forces to permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services - <a href=\"http://www.worldipv6day.org/\">http://www.worldipv6day.org/</a> .\r\n\r\n<strong>Fantastic.  Now what?</strong>\r\n\r\nFor the average user, it may have been a little anti-climactic. The internet worked the same for them as it did on Tuesday. For companies like Google and Facebook, it marked the point of no return for supporting IPv6 to the world, and their customers.  Here’s <a href=\"http://www.networkcomputing.com/ipv6-tech-center/240001572?pgno=1\">A Snapshot of IPv6</a> and a few facts and figures to help put this world-wide event in perspective as written by Mike Fratto with Network Computing.\r\n\r\nIf you’re learning about IPv6 for the first time, or need help catching up, <a href=\"http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/ipv6/basics/\">here’s</a> a great place to start.  If you like to low-crawl through the weeds, check out the title <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/IPv6-Enterprise-Networks-Networking-Technology/dp/1587142279\"><em>IPv6 for Enterprise Networks</em></a> by Cisco Press. It’s an excellent reference whether you’re planning your IPv6 transition or configuring EIGRPv6.  This book was also used as a reference to write this blog, so if I’ve sparked your curiosity in learning more about IPv6 it’s a must-read.\r\n\r\n<strong>IPv6 in the Data Center</strong>\r\n\r\nAssuming you know a little about IPv6, let\'s explore a much over-looked area of IPv6 deployment – the data center.  Today’s virtualized data centers offer unique considerations to IPv6 deployment than that of a typical campus network. Let’s consider the following:\r\n\r\n-          Virtualization of compute, network, and storage technologies\r\n\r\n-          Operating systems and mission critical applications\r\n\r\n-          Disaster recovery and high availability\r\n\r\nThis is by no means a comprehensive list, but these considerations definitely hit close to home to me, and if you use any of the technologies above, they should for you as well.\r\n\r\nAs many have learned and experienced, virtualization can increase business agility, lower costs, provide high availability and so much more. Platforms like Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) unify network, storage access, and server virtualization into a complete, easy to manage system.  Paired with a virtualization suite like VMware vSphere 5, managing thousands of Virtual Machines (VMs) from a centralized point of management becomes trivial.  This ease in administration does come at the cost of complexity when deciding how to support IPv6 all the way from your service provider down to your most critical application on a VM.\r\n\r\nWhether that application is on a UCS, being hosted in the Cloud, or on a physical server, you still have to manage and secure your data, and you’ll need to ensure your DR plan can execute over IPv6 to that site you’ve never been to in the middle of a cornfield in Nebraska.  Luckily, Cisco UCS and VMware vSphere 5 are both IPv6 ready, as are most recent operating systems and applications.\r\n\r\n<strong>Planning the Transition</strong>\r\n\r\nLeading the way, several governments have already started the transition to IPv6 through government directives.  For example, the United States, Australia, India, and Korea all have directives in action to transition to IPv6 by 2014.\r\n\r\nMake no mistake - deploying IPv6 for your enterprise will not be completed overnight. IPv4 will still probably be used for the next couple of decades with a slow, incremental transition to IPv6.  Each enterprise will have to decide when to transition based on their own business incentives, customer locations, and infrastructure costs.  There are a few requirements applicable to almost everyone.  The transition to IPv6 must…\r\n\r\n-          Not impact existing services\r\n\r\n-          Co-exist with IPv4 infrastructure\r\n\r\n-          Be low in cost\r\n\r\n-          Be transparent to the end user\r\n\r\nThere are plenty of options when it comes to deciding how you’ll transition and each data center has it’s own challenges and considerations.  Stay educated, plan for the future, and trust that the day will come when more of your customers are using IPv6 than IPv4. That day won’t be today or tomorrow, but it will come eventually.  Whether or not your infrastructure is prepared to service and support those customers in the future will depend on the choices you make today.\r\n\r\n<strong>Conclusion</strong>\r\n\r\nNot ready for IPv6? Don’t worry - there’s no need to panic or sell the farm.  As mentioned before, the adoption of IPv6 has been slow thus far so you definitely have some time to plan.  As it stands, we’re caught in a bit of a Catch-22.  Vendors don’t want to go “all-in” because of the lack of business incentive for implementing IPv6, and customers and companies who want to adopt native IPv6 aren’t able to without end-to-end support from vendors and providers.  Hopefully events like World IPv6 Day will help increase the necessary awareness and visibility to ensure a smooth transition for everyone.','TRANSITIONING TO IPV6 IN THE DATA CENTER','','inherit','open','open','','6771-revision-4','','','2012-06-08 13:17:08','2012-06-08 13:17:08','',6771,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6771-revision-4',0,'revision','',0),(6777,44,'2012-06-08 13:29:36','2012-06-08 13:29:36','<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>An IPv4 packet walks into a bar and says “Give me a CIDR, I’m exhausted.”</em></p>\r\nThis past Wednesday, June 6<sup>th</sup>, 2012 was World IPv6 Day.  Major ISPs, web companies and networking equipment manufacturers joined forces to permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services - <a href=\"http://www.worldipv6day.org/\">http://www.worldipv6day.org/</a> .\r\n\r\n<strong>Fantastic.  Now what?</strong>\r\n\r\nFor the average user, it may have been a little anti-climactic. The internet worked the same for them as it did on Tuesday. For companies like Google and Facebook, it marked the point of no return for supporting IPv6 to the world, and their customers.  Here’s <a href=\"http://www.networkcomputing.com/ipv6-tech-center/240001572?pgno=1\">A Snapshot of IPv6</a> and a few facts and figures to help put this world-wide event in perspective as written by Mike Fratto with Network Computing.\r\n\r\nIf you’re learning about IPv6 for the first time, or need help catching up, <a href=\"http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/ipv6/basics/\">here’s</a> a great place to start.  If you like to low-crawl through the weeds, check out the title <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/IPv6-Enterprise-Networks-Networking-Technology/dp/1587142279\"><em>IPv6 for Enterprise Networks</em></a> by Cisco Press. It’s an excellent reference whether you’re planning your IPv6 transition or configuring EIGRPv6.  This book was also used as a reference to write this blog, so if I’ve sparked your curiosity in learning more about IPv6 it’s a must-read.\r\n\r\n<strong>IPv6 in the Data Center</strong>\r\n\r\nAssuming you know a little about IPv6, let\'s explore a much over-looked area of IPv6 deployment – the data center.  Today’s virtualized data centers offer unique considerations to IPv6 deployment than that of a typical campus network. Let’s consider the following:\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n-          Virtualization of compute, network, and storage technologies\r\n\r\n-          Operating systems and mission critical applications\r\n\r\n-          Disaster recovery and high availability\r\n\r\nThis is by no means a comprehensive list, but these considerations definitely hit close to home to me, and if you use any of the technologies above, they should for you as well.\r\n\r\nAs many have learned and experienced, virtualization can increase business agility, lower costs, provide high availability and so much more. Platforms like Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) unify network, storage access, and server virtualization into a complete, easy to manage system.  Paired with a virtualization suite like VMware vSphere 5, managing thousands of Virtual Machines (VMs) from a centralized point of management becomes trivial.  This ease in administration does come at the cost of complexity when deciding how to support IPv6 all the way from your service provider down to your most critical application on a VM.\r\n\r\nWhether that application is on a UCS, being hosted in the Cloud, or on a physical server, you still have to manage and secure your data, and you’ll need to ensure your DR plan can execute over IPv6 to that site you’ve never been to in the middle of a cornfield in Nebraska.  Luckily, Cisco UCS and VMware vSphere 5 are both IPv6 ready, as are most recent operating systems and applications.\r\n\r\n<strong>Planning the Transition</strong>\r\n\r\nLeading the way, several governments have already started the transition to IPv6 through government directives.  For example, the United States, Australia, India, and Korea all have directives in action for each of their respective governments to transition to IPv6 by 2014.\r\n\r\nMake no mistake - deploying IPv6 for your enterprise will not be completed overnight. IPv4 will still probably be used for the next couple of decades with a slow, incremental transition to IPv6.  Each enterprise will have to decide when to transition based on their own business incentives, customer locations, and infrastructure costs.  There are a few requirements applicable to almost everyone.  The transition to IPv6 must…\r\n\r\n-          Not impact existing services\r\n\r\n-          Co-exist with IPv4 infrastructure\r\n\r\n-          Be low in cost\r\n\r\n-          Be transparent to the end user\r\n\r\nThere are plenty of options when it comes to deciding how you’ll transition and each data center has it’s own challenges and considerations.  Stay educated, plan for the future, and trust that the day will come when more of your customers are using IPv6 than IPv4. That day won’t be today or tomorrow, but it will come eventually.  Whether or not your infrastructure is prepared to service and support those customers in the future will depend on the choices you make today.\r\n\r\n<strong>Conclusion</strong>\r\n\r\nNot ready for IPv6? Don’t worry - there’s no need to panic or sell the farm.  As mentioned before, the adoption of IPv6 has been slow thus far so you definitely have some time to plan.  As it stands, we’re caught in a bit of a Catch-22.  Vendors don’t want to go “all-in” because of the lack of business incentive for implementing IPv6, and customers and companies who want to adopt native IPv6 aren’t able to without end-to-end support from vendors and providers.  Hopefully events like World IPv6 Day will help increase the necessary awareness and visibility to ensure a smooth transition for everyone.','TRANSITIONING TO IPV6 IN THE DATA CENTER','','publish','open','open','','transitioning-to-ipv6-in-the-data-center','','','2012-06-08 17:09:19','2012-06-08 17:09:19','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=6777',0,'post','',0),(6776,44,'2012-06-08 13:18:17','2012-06-08 13:18:17','<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>An IPv4 packet walks into a bar and says “Give me a CIDR, I’m exhausted.”</em></p>\r\nThis past Wednesday, June 6<sup>th</sup>, 2012 was World IPv6 Day.  Major ISPs, web companies and networking equipment manufacturers joined forces to permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services - <a href=\"http://www.worldipv6day.org/\">http://www.worldipv6day.org/</a> .\r\n\r\n<strong>Fantastic.  Now what?</strong>\r\n\r\nFor the average user, it may have been a little anti-climactic. The internet worked the same for them as it did on Tuesday. For companies like Google and Facebook, it marked the point of no return for supporting IPv6 to the world, and their customers.  Here’s <a href=\"http://www.networkcomputing.com/ipv6-tech-center/240001572?pgno=1\">A Snapshot of IPv6</a> and a few facts and figures to help put this world-wide event in perspective as written by Mike Fratto with Network Computing.\r\n\r\nIf you’re learning about IPv6 for the first time, or need help catching up, <a href=\"http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/ipv6/basics/\">here’s</a> a great place to start.  If you like to low-crawl through the weeds, check out the title <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/IPv6-Enterprise-Networks-Networking-Technology/dp/1587142279\"><em>IPv6 for Enterprise Networks</em></a> by Cisco Press. It’s an excellent reference whether you’re planning your IPv6 transition or configuring EIGRPv6.  This book was also used as a reference to write this blog, so if I’ve sparked your curiosity in learning more about IPv6 it’s a must-read.\r\n\r\n<strong>IPv6 in the Data Center</strong>\r\n\r\nAssuming you know a little about IPv6, let\'s explore a much over-looked area of IPv6 deployment – the data center.  Today’s virtualized data centers offer unique considerations to IPv6 deployment than that of a typical campus network. Let’s consider the following:\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n-          Virtualization of compute, network, and storage technologies\r\n\r\n-          Operating systems and mission critical applications\r\n\r\n-          Disaster recovery and high availability\r\n\r\nThis is by no means a comprehensive list, but these considerations definitely hit close to home to me, and if you use any of the technologies above, they should for you as well.\r\n\r\nAs many have learned and experienced, virtualization can increase business agility, lower costs, provide high availability and so much more. Platforms like Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) unify network, storage access, and server virtualization into a complete, easy to manage system.  Paired with a virtualization suite like VMware vSphere 5, managing thousands of Virtual Machines (VMs) from a centralized point of management becomes trivial.  This ease in administration does come at the cost of complexity when deciding how to support IPv6 all the way from your service provider down to your most critical application on a VM.\r\n\r\nWhether that application is on a UCS, being hosted in the Cloud, or on a physical server, you still have to manage and secure your data, and you’ll need to ensure your DR plan can execute over IPv6 to that site you’ve never been to in the middle of a cornfield in Nebraska.  Luckily, Cisco UCS and VMware vSphere 5 are both IPv6 ready, as are most recent operating systems and applications.\r\n\r\n<strong>Planning the Transition</strong>\r\n\r\nLeading the way, several governments have already started the transition to IPv6 through government directives.  For example, the United States, Australia, India, and Korea all have directives in action to transition to IPv6 by 2014.\r\n\r\nMake no mistake - deploying IPv6 for your enterprise will not be completed overnight. IPv4 will still probably be used for the next couple of decades with a slow, incremental transition to IPv6.  Each enterprise will have to decide when to transition based on their own business incentives, customer locations, and infrastructure costs.  There are a few requirements applicable to almost everyone.  The transition to IPv6 must…\r\n\r\n-          Not impact existing services\r\n\r\n-          Co-exist with IPv4 infrastructure\r\n\r\n-          Be low in cost\r\n\r\n-          Be transparent to the end user\r\n\r\nThere are plenty of options when it comes to deciding how you’ll transition and each data center has it’s own challenges and considerations.  Stay educated, plan for the future, and trust that the day will come when more of your customers are using IPv6 than IPv4. That day won’t be today or tomorrow, but it will come eventually.  Whether or not your infrastructure is prepared to service and support those customers in the future will depend on the choices you make today.\r\n\r\n<strong>Conclusion</strong>\r\n\r\nNot ready for IPv6? Don’t worry - there’s no need to panic or sell the farm.  As mentioned before, the adoption of IPv6 has been slow thus far so you definitely have some time to plan.  As it stands, we’re caught in a bit of a Catch-22.  Vendors don’t want to go “all-in” because of the lack of business incentive for implementing IPv6, and customers and companies who want to adopt native IPv6 aren’t able to without end-to-end support from vendors and providers.  Hopefully events like World IPv6 Day will help increase the necessary awareness and visibility to ensure a smooth transition for everyone.','TRANSITIONING TO IPV6 IN THE DATA CENTER','','inherit','open','open','','6771-revision-5','','','2012-06-08 13:18:17','2012-06-08 13:18:17','',6771,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6771-revision-5',0,'revision','',0),(6778,44,'2012-06-08 13:26:41','2012-06-08 13:26:41','<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>An IPv4 packet walks into a bar and says “Give me a CIDR, I’m exhausted.”</em></p>\nThis past Wednesday, June 6<sup>th</sup>, 2012 was World IPv6 Day.  Major ISPs, web companies and networking equipment manufacturers joined forces to permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services - <a href=\"http://www.worldipv6day.org/\">http://www.worldipv6day.org/</a> .\n\n<strong>Fantastic.  Now what?</strong>\n\nFor the average user, it may have been a little anti-climactic. The internet worked the same for them as it did on Tuesday. For companies like Google and Facebook, it marked the point of no return for supporting IPv6 to the world, and their customers.  Here’s <a href=\"http://www.networkcomputing.com/ipv6-tech-center/240001572?pgno=1\">A Snapshot of IPv6</a> and a few facts and figures to help put this world-wide event in perspective as written by Mike Fratto with Network Computing.\n\nIf you’re learning about IPv6 for the first time, or need help catching up, <a href=\"http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/ipv6/basics/\">here’s</a> a great place to start.  If you like to low-crawl through the weeds, check out the title <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/IPv6-Enterprise-Networks-Networking-Technology/dp/1587142279\"><em>IPv6 for Enterprise Networks</em></a> by Cisco Press. It’s an excellent reference whether you’re planning your IPv6 transition or configuring EIGRPv6.  This book was also used as a reference to write this blog, so if I’ve sparked your curiosity in learning more about IPv6 it’s a must-read.\n\n<strong>IPv6 in the Data Center</strong>\n\nAssuming you know a little about IPv6, let\'s explore a much over-looked area of IPv6 deployment – the data center.  Today’s virtualized data centers offer unique considerations to IPv6 deployment than that of a typical campus network. Let’s consider the following:\n\n\n-          Virtualization of compute, network, and storage technologies\n\n-          Operating systems and mission critical applications\n\n-          Disaster recovery and high availability\n\nThis is by no means a comprehensive list, but these considerations definitely hit close to home to me, and if you use any of the technologies above, they should for you as well.\n\nAs many have learned and experienced, virtualization can increase business agility, lower costs, provide high availability and so much more. Platforms like Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) unify network, storage access, and server virtualization into a complete, easy to manage system.  Paired with a virtualization suite like VMware vSphere 5, managing thousands of Virtual Machines (VMs) from a centralized point of management becomes trivial.  This ease in administration does come at the cost of complexity when deciding how to support IPv6 all the way from your service provider down to your most critical application on a VM.\n\nWhether that application is on a UCS, being hosted in the Cloud, or on a physical server, you still have to manage and secure your data, and you’ll need to ensure your DR plan can execute over IPv6 to that site you’ve never been to in the middle of a cornfield in Nebraska.  Luckily, Cisco UCS and VMware vSphere 5 are both IPv6 ready, as are most recent operating systems and applications.\n\n<strong>Planning the Transition</strong>\n\nLeading the way, several governments have already started the transition to IPv6 through government directives.  For example, the United States, Australia, India, and Korea all have directives in action to transition to IPv6 by 2014.\n\nMake no mistake - deploying IPv6 for your enterprise will not be completed overnight. IPv4 will still probably be used for the next couple of decades with a slow, incremental transition to IPv6.  Each enterprise will have to decide when to transition based on their own business incentives, customer locations, and infrastructure costs.  There are a few requirements applicable to almost everyone.  The transition to IPv6 must…\n\n-          Not impact existing services\n\n-          Co-exist with IPv4 infrastructure\n\n-          Be low in cost\n\n-          Be transparent to the end user\n\nThere are plenty of options when it comes to deciding how you’ll transition and each data center has it’s own challenges and considerations.  Stay educated, plan for the future, and trust that the day will come when more of your customers are using IPv6 than IPv4. That day won’t be today or tomorrow, but it will come eventually.  Whether or not your infrastructure is prepared to service and support those customers in the future will depend on the choices you make today.\n\n<strong>Conclusion</strong>\n\nNot ready for IPv6? Don’t worry - there’s no need to panic or sell the farm.  As mentioned before, the adoption of IPv6 has been slow thus far so you definitely have some time to plan.  As it stands, we’re caught in a bit of a Catch-22.  Vendors don’t want to go “all-in” because of the lack of business incentive for implementing IPv6, and customers and companies who want to adopt native IPv6 aren’t able to without end-to-end support from vendors and providers.  Hopefully events like World IPv6 Day will help increase the necessary awareness and visibility to ensure a smooth transition for everyone.','TRANSITIONING TO IPV6 IN THE DATA CENTER','','inherit','open','open','','6777-revision','','','2012-06-08 13:26:41','2012-06-08 13:26:41','',6777,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6777-revision',0,'revision','',0),(6779,44,'2012-06-08 13:28:19','2012-06-08 13:28:19','<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>An IPv4 packet walks into a bar and says “Give me a CIDR, I’m exhausted.”</em></p>\r\nThis past Wednesday, June 6<sup>th</sup>, 2012 was World IPv6 Day.  Major ISPs, web companies and networking equipment manufacturers joined forces to permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services - <a href=\"http://www.worldipv6day.org/\">http://www.worldipv6day.org/</a> .\r\n\r\n<strong>Fantastic.  Now what?</strong>\r\n\r\nFor the average user, it may have been a little anti-climactic. The internet worked the same for them as it did on Tuesday. For companies like Google and Facebook, it marked the point of no return for supporting IPv6 to the world, and their customers.  Here’s <a href=\"http://www.networkcomputing.com/ipv6-tech-center/240001572?pgno=1\">A Snapshot of IPv6</a> and a few facts and figures to help put this world-wide event in perspective as written by Mike Fratto with Network Computing.\r\n\r\nIf you’re learning about IPv6 for the first time, or need help catching up, <a href=\"http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/ipv6/basics/\">here’s</a> a great place to start.  If you like to low-crawl through the weeds, check out the title <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/IPv6-Enterprise-Networks-Networking-Technology/dp/1587142279\"><em>IPv6 for Enterprise Networks</em></a> by Cisco Press. It’s an excellent reference whether you’re planning your IPv6 transition or configuring EIGRPv6.  This book was also used as a reference to write this blog, so if I’ve sparked your curiosity in learning more about IPv6 it’s a must-read.\r\n\r\n<strong>IPv6 in the Data Center</strong>\r\n\r\nAssuming you know a little about IPv6, let\'s explore a much over-looked area of IPv6 deployment – the data center.  Today’s virtualized data centers offer unique considerations to IPv6 deployment than that of a typical campus network. Let’s consider the following:\r\n\r\n\r\n-          Virtualization of compute, network, and storage technologies\r\n\r\n-          Operating systems and mission critical applications\r\n\r\n-          Disaster recovery and high availability\r\n\r\nThis is by no means a comprehensive list, but these considerations definitely hit close to home to me, and if you use any of the technologies above, they should for you as well.\r\n\r\nAs many have learned and experienced, virtualization can increase business agility, lower costs, provide high availability and so much more. Platforms like Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) unify network, storage access, and server virtualization into a complete, easy to manage system.  Paired with a virtualization suite like VMware vSphere 5, managing thousands of Virtual Machines (VMs) from a centralized point of management becomes trivial.  This ease in administration does come at the cost of complexity when deciding how to support IPv6 all the way from your service provider down to your most critical application on a VM.\r\n\r\nWhether that application is on a UCS, being hosted in the Cloud, or on a physical server, you still have to manage and secure your data, and you’ll need to ensure your DR plan can execute over IPv6 to that site you’ve never been to in the middle of a cornfield in Nebraska.  Luckily, Cisco UCS and VMware vSphere 5 are both IPv6 ready, as are most recent operating systems and applications.\r\n\r\n<strong>Planning the Transition</strong>\r\n\r\nLeading the way, several governments have already started the transition to IPv6 through government directives.  For example, the United States, Australia, India, and Korea all have directives in action to transition to IPv6 by 2014.\r\n\r\nMake no mistake - deploying IPv6 for your enterprise will not be completed overnight. IPv4 will still probably be used for the next couple of decades with a slow, incremental transition to IPv6.  Each enterprise will have to decide when to transition based on their own business incentives, customer locations, and infrastructure costs.  There are a few requirements applicable to almost everyone.  The transition to IPv6 must…\r\n\r\n-          Not impact existing services\r\n\r\n-          Co-exist with IPv4 infrastructure\r\n\r\n-          Be low in cost\r\n\r\n-          Be transparent to the end user\r\n\r\nThere are plenty of options when it comes to deciding how you’ll transition and each data center has it’s own challenges and considerations.  Stay educated, plan for the future, and trust that the day will come when more of your customers are using IPv6 than IPv4. That day won’t be today or tomorrow, but it will come eventually.  Whether or not your infrastructure is prepared to service and support those customers in the future will depend on the choices you make today.\r\n\r\n<strong>Conclusion</strong>\r\n\r\nNot ready for IPv6? Don’t worry - there’s no need to panic or sell the farm.  As mentioned before, the adoption of IPv6 has been slow thus far so you definitely have some time to plan.  As it stands, we’re caught in a bit of a Catch-22.  Vendors don’t want to go “all-in” because of the lack of business incentive for implementing IPv6, and customers and companies who want to adopt native IPv6 aren’t able to without end-to-end support from vendors and providers.  Hopefully events like World IPv6 Day will help increase the necessary awareness and visibility to ensure a smooth transition for everyone.','TRANSITIONING TO IPV6 IN THE DATA CENTER','','inherit','open','open','','6777-revision-2','','','2012-06-08 13:28:19','2012-06-08 13:28:19','',6777,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6777-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(6780,44,'2012-06-08 13:29:36','2012-06-08 13:29:36','<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>An IPv4 packet walks into a bar and says “Give me a CIDR, I’m exhausted.”</em></p>\r\nThis past Wednesday, June 6<sup>th</sup>, 2012 was World IPv6 Day.  Major ISPs, web companies and networking equipment manufacturers joined forces to permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services - <a href=\"http://www.worldipv6day.org/\">http://www.worldipv6day.org/</a> .\r\n\r\n<strong>Fantastic.  Now what?</strong>\r\n\r\nFor the average user, it may have been a little anti-climactic. The internet worked the same for them as it did on Tuesday. For companies like Google and Facebook, it marked the point of no return for supporting IPv6 to the world, and their customers.  Here’s <a href=\"http://www.networkcomputing.com/ipv6-tech-center/240001572?pgno=1\">A Snapshot of IPv6</a> and a few facts and figures to help put this world-wide event in perspective as written by Mike Fratto with Network Computing.\r\n\r\nIf you’re learning about IPv6 for the first time, or need help catching up, <a href=\"http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/ipv6/basics/\">here’s</a> a great place to start.  If you like to low-crawl through the weeds, check out the title <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/IPv6-Enterprise-Networks-Networking-Technology/dp/1587142279\"><em>IPv6 for Enterprise Networks</em></a> by Cisco Press. It’s an excellent reference whether you’re planning your IPv6 transition or configuring EIGRPv6.  This book was also used as a reference to write this blog, so if I’ve sparked your curiosity in learning more about IPv6 it’s a must-read.\r\n\r\n<strong>IPv6 in the Data Center</strong>\r\n\r\nAssuming you know a little about IPv6, let\'s explore a much over-looked area of IPv6 deployment – the data center.  Today’s virtualized data centers offer unique considerations to IPv6 deployment than that of a typical campus network. Let’s consider the following:\r\n\r\n-          Virtualization of compute, network, and storage technologies\r\n\r\n-          Operating systems and mission critical applications\r\n\r\n-          Disaster recovery and high availability\r\n\r\nThis is by no means a comprehensive list, but these considerations definitely hit close to home to me, and if you use any of the technologies above, they should for you as well.\r\n\r\nAs many have learned and experienced, virtualization can increase business agility, lower costs, provide high availability and so much more. Platforms like Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) unify network, storage access, and server virtualization into a complete, easy to manage system.  Paired with a virtualization suite like VMware vSphere 5, managing thousands of Virtual Machines (VMs) from a centralized point of management becomes trivial.  This ease in administration does come at the cost of complexity when deciding how to support IPv6 all the way from your service provider down to your most critical application on a VM.\r\n\r\nWhether that application is on a UCS, being hosted in the Cloud, or on a physical server, you still have to manage and secure your data, and you’ll need to ensure your DR plan can execute over IPv6 to that site you’ve never been to in the middle of a cornfield in Nebraska.  Luckily, Cisco UCS and VMware vSphere 5 are both IPv6 ready, as are most recent operating systems and applications.\r\n\r\n<strong>Planning the Transition</strong>\r\n\r\nLeading the way, several governments have already started the transition to IPv6 through government directives.  For example, the United States, Australia, India, and Korea all have directives in action to transition to IPv6 by 2014.\r\n\r\nMake no mistake - deploying IPv6 for your enterprise will not be completed overnight. IPv4 will still probably be used for the next couple of decades with a slow, incremental transition to IPv6.  Each enterprise will have to decide when to transition based on their own business incentives, customer locations, and infrastructure costs.  There are a few requirements applicable to almost everyone.  The transition to IPv6 must…\r\n\r\n-          Not impact existing services\r\n\r\n-          Co-exist with IPv4 infrastructure\r\n\r\n-          Be low in cost\r\n\r\n-          Be transparent to the end user\r\n\r\nThere are plenty of options when it comes to deciding how you’ll transition and each data center has it’s own challenges and considerations.  Stay educated, plan for the future, and trust that the day will come when more of your customers are using IPv6 than IPv4. That day won’t be today or tomorrow, but it will come eventually.  Whether or not your infrastructure is prepared to service and support those customers in the future will depend on the choices you make today.\r\n\r\n<strong>Conclusion</strong>\r\n\r\nNot ready for IPv6? Don’t worry - there’s no need to panic or sell the farm.  As mentioned before, the adoption of IPv6 has been slow thus far so you definitely have some time to plan.  As it stands, we’re caught in a bit of a Catch-22.  Vendors don’t want to go “all-in” because of the lack of business incentive for implementing IPv6, and customers and companies who want to adopt native IPv6 aren’t able to without end-to-end support from vendors and providers.  Hopefully events like World IPv6 Day will help increase the necessary awareness and visibility to ensure a smooth transition for everyone.','TRANSITIONING TO IPV6 IN THE DATA CENTER','','inherit','open','open','','6777-revision-3','','','2012-06-08 13:29:36','2012-06-08 13:29:36','',6777,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6777-revision-3',0,'revision','',0),(6781,44,'2012-06-08 17:11:21','2012-06-08 17:11:21','<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>An IPv4 packet walks into a bar and says “Give me a CIDR, I’m exhausted.”</em></p>\nThis past Wednesday, June 6<sup>th</sup>, 2012 was World IPv6 Day.  Major ISPs, web companies and networking equipment manufacturers joined forces to permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services - <a href=\"http://www.worldipv6day.org/\">http://www.worldipv6day.org/</a> .\n\n<strong>Fantastic.  Now what?</strong>\n\nFor the average user, it may have been a little anti-climactic. The internet worked the same for them as it did on Tuesday. For companies like Google and Facebook, it marked the point of no return for supporting IPv6 to the world, and their customers.  Here’s <a href=\"http://www.networkcomputing.com/ipv6-tech-center/240001572?pgno=1\">A Snapshot of IPv6</a> and a few facts and figures to help put this world-wide event in perspective as written by Mike Fratto with Network Computing.\n\nIf you’re learning about IPv6 for the first time, or need help catching up, <a href=\"http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/ipv6/basics/\">here’s</a> a great place to start.  If you like to low-crawl through the weeds, check out the title <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/IPv6-Enterprise-Networks-Networking-Technology/dp/1587142279\"><em>IPv6 for Enterprise Networks</em></a> by Cisco Press. It’s an excellent reference whether you’re planning your IPv6 transition or configuring EIGRPv6.  This book was also used as a reference to write this blog, so if I’ve sparked your curiosity in learning more about IPv6 it’s a must-read.\n\n<strong>IPv6 in the Data Center</strong>\n\nAssuming you know a little about IPv6, let\'s explore a much over-looked area of IPv6 deployment – the data center.  Today’s virtualized data centers offer unique considerations to IPv6 deployment than that of a typical campus network. Let’s consider the following:\n<!--more-->\n\n-          Virtualization of compute, network, and storage technologies\n\n-          Operating systems and mission critical applications\n\n-          Disaster recovery and high availability\n\nThis is by no means a comprehensive list, but these considerations definitely hit close to home to me, and if you use any of the technologies above, they should for you as well.\n\nAs many have learned and experienced, virtualization can increase business agility, lower costs, provide high availability and so much more. Platforms like Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) unify network, storage access, and server virtualization into a complete, easy to manage system.  Paired with a virtualization suite like VMware vSphere 5, managing thousands of Virtual Machines (VMs) from a centralized point of management becomes trivial.  This ease in administration does come at the cost of complexity when deciding how to support IPv6 all the way from your service provider down to your most critical application on a VM.\n\nWhether that application is on a UCS, being hosted in the Cloud, or on a physical server, you still have to manage and secure your data, and you’ll need to ensure your DR plan can execute over IPv6 to that site you’ve never been to in the middle of a cornfield in Nebraska.  Luckily, Cisco UCS and VMware vSphere 5 are both IPv6 ready, as are most recent operating systems and applications.\n\n<strong>Planning the Transition</strong>\n\nLeading the way, several governments have already started the transition to IPv6 through government directives.  For example, the United States, Australia, India, and Korea all have directives in action for each of their respective governments to transition to IPv6 by 2014.\n\nMake no mistake - deploying IPv6 for your enterprise will not be completed overnight. IPv4 will still probably be used for the next couple of decades with a slow, incremental transition to IPv6.  Each enterprise will have to decide when to transition based on their own business incentives, customer locations, and infrastructure costs.  There are a few requirements applicable to almost everyone.  The transition to IPv6 must…\n\n-          Not impact existing services\n\n-          Co-exist with IPv4 infrastructure\n\n-          Be low in cost\n\n-          Be transparent to the end user\n\nThere are plenty of options when it comes to deciding how you’ll transition and each data center has it’s own challenges and considerations.  Stay educated, plan for the future, and trust that the day will come when more of your customers are using IPv6 than IPv4. That day won’t be today or tomorrow, but it will come eventually.  Whether or not your infrastructure is prepared to service and support those customers in the future will depend on the choices you make today.\n\n<strong>Conclusion</strong>\n\nNot ready for IPv6? Don’t worry - there’s no need to panic or sell the farm.  As mentioned before, the adoption of IPv6 has been slow thus far so you definitely have some time to plan.  As it stands, we’re caught in a bit of a Catch-22.  Vendors don’t want to go “all-in” because of the lack of business incentive for implementing IPv6, and customers and companies who want to adopt native IPv6 aren’t able to without end-to-end support from vendors and providers.  Hopefully events like World IPv6 Day will help increase the necessary awareness and visibility to ensure a smooth transition for everyone.','TRANSITIONING TO IPV6 IN THE DATA CENTER','','inherit','open','open','','6777-autosave','','','2012-06-08 17:11:21','2012-06-08 17:11:21','',6777,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6777-autosave',0,'revision','',0),(6782,44,'2012-06-08 13:34:56','2012-06-08 13:34:56','<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>An IPv4 packet walks into a bar and says “Give me a CIDR, I’m exhausted.”</em></p>\r\nThis past Wednesday, June 6<sup>th</sup>, 2012 was World IPv6 Day.  Major ISPs, web companies and networking equipment manufacturers joined forces to permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services - <a href=\"http://www.worldipv6day.org/\">http://www.worldipv6day.org/</a> .\r\n\r\n<strong>Fantastic.  Now what?</strong>\r\n\r\nFor the average user, it may have been a little anti-climactic. The internet worked the same for them as it did on Tuesday. For companies like Google and Facebook, it marked the point of no return for supporting IPv6 to the world, and their customers.  Here’s <a href=\"http://www.networkcomputing.com/ipv6-tech-center/240001572?pgno=1\">A Snapshot of IPv6</a> and a few facts and figures to help put this world-wide event in perspective as written by Mike Fratto with Network Computing.\r\n\r\nIf you’re learning about IPv6 for the first time, or need help catching up, <a href=\"http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/ipv6/basics/\">here’s</a> a great place to start.  If you like to low-crawl through the weeds, check out the title <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/IPv6-Enterprise-Networks-Networking-Technology/dp/1587142279\"><em>IPv6 for Enterprise Networks</em></a> by Cisco Press. It’s an excellent reference whether you’re planning your IPv6 transition or configuring EIGRPv6.  This book was also used as a reference to write this blog, so if I’ve sparked your curiosity in learning more about IPv6 it’s a must-read.\r\n\r\n<strong>IPv6 in the Data Center</strong>\r\n\r\nAssuming you know a little about IPv6, let\'s explore a much over-looked area of IPv6 deployment – the data center.  Today’s virtualized data centers offer unique considerations to IPv6 deployment than that of a typical campus network. Let’s consider the following:\r\n \r\n\r\n-          Virtualization of compute, network, and storage technologies\r\n\r\n-          Operating systems and mission critical applications\r\n\r\n-          Disaster recovery and high availability\r\n\r\nThis is by no means a comprehensive list, but these considerations definitely hit close to home to me, and if you use any of the technologies above, they should for you as well.\r\n\r\nAs many have learned and experienced, virtualization can increase business agility, lower costs, provide high availability and so much more. Platforms like Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) unify network, storage access, and server virtualization into a complete, easy to manage system.  Paired with a virtualization suite like VMware vSphere 5, managing thousands of Virtual Machines (VMs) from a centralized point of management becomes trivial.  This ease in administration does come at the cost of complexity when deciding how to support IPv6 all the way from your service provider down to your most critical application on a VM.\r\n\r\nWhether that application is on a UCS, being hosted in the Cloud, or on a physical server, you still have to manage and secure your data, and you’ll need to ensure your DR plan can execute over IPv6 to that site you’ve never been to in the middle of a cornfield in Nebraska.  Luckily, Cisco UCS and VMware vSphere 5 are both IPv6 ready, as are most recent operating systems and applications.\r\n\r\n<strong>Planning the Transition</strong>\r\n\r\nLeading the way, several governments have already started the transition to IPv6 through government directives.  For example, the United States, Australia, India, and Korea all have directives in action to transition to IPv6 by 2014.\r\n\r\nMake no mistake - deploying IPv6 for your enterprise will not be completed overnight. IPv4 will still probably be used for the next couple of decades with a slow, incremental transition to IPv6.  Each enterprise will have to decide when to transition based on their own business incentives, customer locations, and infrastructure costs.  There are a few requirements applicable to almost everyone.  The transition to IPv6 must…\r\n\r\n-          Not impact existing services\r\n\r\n-          Co-exist with IPv4 infrastructure\r\n\r\n-          Be low in cost\r\n\r\n-          Be transparent to the end user\r\n\r\nThere are plenty of options when it comes to deciding how you’ll transition and each data center has it’s own challenges and considerations.  Stay educated, plan for the future, and trust that the day will come when more of your customers are using IPv6 than IPv4. That day won’t be today or tomorrow, but it will come eventually.  Whether or not your infrastructure is prepared to service and support those customers in the future will depend on the choices you make today.\r\n\r\n<strong>Conclusion</strong>\r\n\r\nNot ready for IPv6? Don’t worry - there’s no need to panic or sell the farm.  As mentioned before, the adoption of IPv6 has been slow thus far so you definitely have some time to plan.  As it stands, we’re caught in a bit of a Catch-22.  Vendors don’t want to go “all-in” because of the lack of business incentive for implementing IPv6, and customers and companies who want to adopt native IPv6 aren’t able to without end-to-end support from vendors and providers.  Hopefully events like World IPv6 Day will help increase the necessary awareness and visibility to ensure a smooth transition for everyone.','TRANSITIONING TO IPV6 IN THE DATA CENTER','','inherit','open','open','','6777-revision-4','','','2012-06-08 13:34:56','2012-06-08 13:34:56','',6777,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6777-revision-4',0,'revision','',0),(6783,44,'2012-06-08 13:36:06','2012-06-08 13:36:06','<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>An IPv4 packet walks into a bar and says “Give me a CIDR, I’m exhausted.”</em></p>\r\nThis past Wednesday, June 6<sup>th</sup>, 2012 was World IPv6 Day.  Major ISPs, web companies and networking equipment manufacturers joined forces to permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services - <a href=\"http://www.worldipv6day.org/\">http://www.worldipv6day.org/</a> .\r\n\r\n<strong>Fantastic.  Now what?</strong>\r\n\r\nFor the average user, it may have been a little anti-climactic. The internet worked the same for them as it did on Tuesday. For companies like Google and Facebook, it marked the point of no return for supporting IPv6 to the world, and their customers.  Here’s <a href=\"http://www.networkcomputing.com/ipv6-tech-center/240001572?pgno=1\">A Snapshot of IPv6</a> and a few facts and figures to help put this world-wide event in perspective as written by Mike Fratto with Network Computing.\r\n\r\nIf you’re learning about IPv6 for the first time, or need help catching up, <a href=\"http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/ipv6/basics/\">here’s</a> a great place to start.  If you like to low-crawl through the weeds, check out the title <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/IPv6-Enterprise-Networks-Networking-Technology/dp/1587142279\"><em>IPv6 for Enterprise Networks</em></a> by Cisco Press. It’s an excellent reference whether you’re planning your IPv6 transition or configuring EIGRPv6.  This book was also used as a reference to write this blog, so if I’ve sparked your curiosity in learning more about IPv6 it’s a must-read.\r\n\r\n<strong>IPv6 in the Data Center</strong>\r\n\r\nAssuming you know a little about IPv6, let\'s explore a much over-looked area of IPv6 deployment – the data center.  Today’s virtualized data centers offer unique considerations to IPv6 deployment than that of a typical campus network. Let’s consider the following:\r\n  Click Here to read more… \r\n\r\n-          Virtualization of compute, network, and storage technologies\r\n\r\n-          Operating systems and mission critical applications\r\n\r\n-          Disaster recovery and high availability\r\n\r\nThis is by no means a comprehensive list, but these considerations definitely hit close to home to me, and if you use any of the technologies above, they should for you as well.\r\n\r\nAs many have learned and experienced, virtualization can increase business agility, lower costs, provide high availability and so much more. Platforms like Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) unify network, storage access, and server virtualization into a complete, easy to manage system.  Paired with a virtualization suite like VMware vSphere 5, managing thousands of Virtual Machines (VMs) from a centralized point of management becomes trivial.  This ease in administration does come at the cost of complexity when deciding how to support IPv6 all the way from your service provider down to your most critical application on a VM.\r\n\r\nWhether that application is on a UCS, being hosted in the Cloud, or on a physical server, you still have to manage and secure your data, and you’ll need to ensure your DR plan can execute over IPv6 to that site you’ve never been to in the middle of a cornfield in Nebraska.  Luckily, Cisco UCS and VMware vSphere 5 are both IPv6 ready, as are most recent operating systems and applications.\r\n\r\n<strong>Planning the Transition</strong>\r\n\r\nLeading the way, several governments have already started the transition to IPv6 through government directives.  For example, the United States, Australia, India, and Korea all have directives in action to transition to IPv6 by 2014.\r\n\r\nMake no mistake - deploying IPv6 for your enterprise will not be completed overnight. IPv4 will still probably be used for the next couple of decades with a slow, incremental transition to IPv6.  Each enterprise will have to decide when to transition based on their own business incentives, customer locations, and infrastructure costs.  There are a few requirements applicable to almost everyone.  The transition to IPv6 must…\r\n\r\n-          Not impact existing services\r\n\r\n-          Co-exist with IPv4 infrastructure\r\n\r\n-          Be low in cost\r\n\r\n-          Be transparent to the end user\r\n\r\nThere are plenty of options when it comes to deciding how you’ll transition and each data center has it’s own challenges and considerations.  Stay educated, plan for the future, and trust that the day will come when more of your customers are using IPv6 than IPv4. That day won’t be today or tomorrow, but it will come eventually.  Whether or not your infrastructure is prepared to service and support those customers in the future will depend on the choices you make today.\r\n\r\n<strong>Conclusion</strong>\r\n\r\nNot ready for IPv6? Don’t worry - there’s no need to panic or sell the farm.  As mentioned before, the adoption of IPv6 has been slow thus far so you definitely have some time to plan.  As it stands, we’re caught in a bit of a Catch-22.  Vendors don’t want to go “all-in” because of the lack of business incentive for implementing IPv6, and customers and companies who want to adopt native IPv6 aren’t able to without end-to-end support from vendors and providers.  Hopefully events like World IPv6 Day will help increase the necessary awareness and visibility to ensure a smooth transition for everyone.','TRANSITIONING TO IPV6 IN THE DATA CENTER','','inherit','open','open','','6777-revision-5','','','2012-06-08 13:36:06','2012-06-08 13:36:06','',6777,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6777-revision-5',0,'revision','',0),(6823,44,'2012-06-18 16:18:56','2012-06-18 16:18:56','Some time now has passed since EMC World tore through Las Vegas and my head is still spinning from all the announcements! One that definitely should not be overlooked especially for SMB customers is the newest addition to the VNXe family, the VNXe 3150. For those of you who are not familiar the VNXe line of storage from EMC let me get you up to speed. VNXe systems were designed with one philosophy in mind: keep it simple. It’s storage from the application’s point of view with one clear way to handle any task from initial installation to creating storage for virtual servers. You can shift from managing file shares to creating application storage without missing a beat. What this means to you? Well...You can save time and steps. Provisioning storage is a breeze most any operation you need to do can be lone in 5 clicks or less and most certainly under 10 minutes. Not too shabby huh? All of this is done through the all new Unisphere management interface tailored especially for the VNXe for administrators of all types. This system is easy for the first time storage user to the storage expert. The wizards in this thing are fantastic! Not a wizard fan and don\'t like being bound with their constraints? No problem all the advanced features are still there for the storage pros! Don\'t forget the best part though, the VNXe line provides deduplication, thin provisioning and compression all for FREE, no extra licensing required for any of those features! So, all of that said let me tell you what the VNXe 3150 brings to the table, more after the bump!<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe new VNXe 3150 is a powerhouse in a tiny package for those who want the high performance and reliability that EMC is known for without the price tag of enterprise class storage. The new VNXe 3150 storage system, adds 50% more performance and capacity per rack unit with the simplicity for which the award-winning VNXe line is already known. This system like its older brothers is purpose-built for IT generalists and is optimized for cloud computing and virtualized applications, and this thing can pack a punch. In the newest 2U model the VNXe 3150 can now hold up to 25 2.5 inch drives in its enclosure, that\'s some serious terabytes per U! Did I mention it also now supports 3TB NL SAS drives as well? With all this space you wanna make sure the performance is there right? No problem, the new VNXe 3150 comes complete with Quad-Core Intel processors giving it the umph it needs and a 10 GB I/O module can be easily added to get the throughput you need from you storage in your environment!  Now I know you are wondering about the older brothers, are they getting left behind? Nope! They are getting upgrades as well especially in the drive area, all VNXe models will now be able to support 2.5 inch drives. I think we can all expect more announcements the second half of this year when the 3150 will be released. EMC has changed the face of the storage industry in many ways and has always provided good, healthy competition and I dont think we will see a slow down in that any time soon!','EMC WELCOMES A NEW MEMBER TO THE VNXe FAMILY','','publish','open','open','','emc-welcomes-a-new-member-to-the-vnxe-family','','','2012-06-18 19:40:48','2012-06-18 19:40:48','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=6823',0,'post','',0),(6787,44,'2012-06-08 13:38:53','2012-06-08 13:38:53','<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>An IPv4 packet walks into a bar and says “Give me a CIDR, I’m exhausted.”</em></p>\r\nThis past Wednesday, June 6<sup>th</sup>, 2012 was World IPv6 Day.  Major ISPs, web companies and networking equipment manufacturers joined forces to permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services - <a href=\"http://www.worldipv6day.org/\">http://www.worldipv6day.org/</a> .\r\n\r\n<strong>Fantastic.  Now what?</strong>\r\n\r\nFor the average user, it may have been a little anti-climactic. The internet worked the same for them as it did on Tuesday. For companies like Google and Facebook, it marked the point of no return for supporting IPv6 to the world, and their customers.  Here’s <a href=\"http://www.networkcomputing.com/ipv6-tech-center/240001572?pgno=1\">A Snapshot of IPv6</a> and a few facts and figures to help put this world-wide event in perspective as written by Mike Fratto with Network Computing.\r\n\r\nIf you’re learning about IPv6 for the first time, or need help catching up, <a href=\"http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/ipv6/basics/\">here’s</a> a great place to start.  If you like to low-crawl through the weeds, check out the title <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/IPv6-Enterprise-Networks-Networking-Technology/dp/1587142279\"><em>IPv6 for Enterprise Networks</em></a> by Cisco Press. It’s an excellent reference whether you’re planning your IPv6 transition or configuring EIGRPv6.  This book was also used as a reference to write this blog, so if I’ve sparked your curiosity in learning more about IPv6 it’s a must-read.\r\n\r\n<strong>IPv6 in the Data Center</strong>\r\n\r\nAssuming you know a little about IPv6, let\'s explore a much over-looked area of IPv6 deployment – the data center.  Today’s virtualized data centers offer unique considerations to IPv6 deployment than that of a typical campus network. Let’s consider the following:\r\n\r\n-          Virtualization of compute, network, and storage technologies\r\n\r\n-          Operating systems and mission critical applications\r\n\r\n-          Disaster recovery and high availability\r\n\r\nThis is by no means a comprehensive list, but these considerations definitely hit close to home to me, and if you use any of the technologies above, they should for you as well.\r\n\r\nAs many have learned and experienced, virtualization can increase business agility, lower costs, provide high availability and so much more. Platforms like Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) unify network, storage access, and server virtualization into a complete, easy to manage system.  Paired with a virtualization suite like VMware vSphere 5, managing thousands of Virtual Machines (VMs) from a centralized point of management becomes trivial.  This ease in administration does come at the cost of complexity when deciding how to support IPv6 all the way from your service provider down to your most critical application on a VM.\r\n\r\nWhether that application is on a UCS, being hosted in the Cloud, or on a physical server, you still have to manage and secure your data, and you’ll need to ensure your DR plan can execute over IPv6 to that site you’ve never been to in the middle of a cornfield in Nebraska.  Luckily, Cisco UCS and VMware vSphere 5 are both IPv6 ready, as are most recent operating systems and applications.\r\n\r\n<strong>Planning the Transition</strong>\r\n\r\nLeading the way, several governments have already started the transition to IPv6 through government directives.  For example, the United States, Australia, India, and Korea all have directives in action to transition to IPv6 by 2014.\r\n\r\nMake no mistake - deploying IPv6 for your enterprise will not be completed overnight. IPv4 will still probably be used for the next couple of decades with a slow, incremental transition to IPv6.  Each enterprise will have to decide when to transition based on their own business incentives, customer locations, and infrastructure costs.  There are a few requirements applicable to almost everyone.  The transition to IPv6 must…\r\n\r\n-          Not impact existing services\r\n\r\n-          Co-exist with IPv4 infrastructure\r\n\r\n-          Be low in cost\r\n\r\n-          Be transparent to the end user\r\n\r\nThere are plenty of options when it comes to deciding how you’ll transition and each data center has it’s own challenges and considerations.  Stay educated, plan for the future, and trust that the day will come when more of your customers are using IPv6 than IPv4. That day won’t be today or tomorrow, but it will come eventually.  Whether or not your infrastructure is prepared to service and support those customers in the future will depend on the choices you make today.\r\n\r\n<strong>Conclusion</strong>\r\n\r\nNot ready for IPv6? Don’t worry - there’s no need to panic or sell the farm.  As mentioned before, the adoption of IPv6 has been slow thus far so you definitely have some time to plan.  As it stands, we’re caught in a bit of a Catch-22.  Vendors don’t want to go “all-in” because of the lack of business incentive for implementing IPv6, and customers and companies who want to adopt native IPv6 aren’t able to without end-to-end support from vendors and providers.  Hopefully events like World IPv6 Day will help increase the necessary awareness and visibility to ensure a smooth transition for everyone.','TRANSITIONING TO IPV6 IN THE DATA CENTER','','inherit','open','open','','6777-revision-6','','','2012-06-08 13:38:53','2012-06-08 13:38:53','',6777,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6777-revision-6',0,'revision','',0),(6788,44,'2012-06-08 13:52:09','2012-06-08 13:52:09','<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>An IPv4 packet walks into a bar and says “Give me a CIDR, I’m exhausted.”</em></p>\r\nThis past Wednesday, June 6<sup>th</sup>, 2012 was World IPv6 Day.  Major ISPs, web companies and networking equipment manufacturers joined forces to permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services - <a href=\"http://www.worldipv6day.org/\">http://www.worldipv6day.org/</a> .\r\n\r\n<strong>Fantastic.  Now what?</strong>\r\n\r\nFor the average user, it may have been a little anti-climactic. The internet worked the same for them as it did on Tuesday. For companies like Google and Facebook, it marked the point of no return for supporting IPv6 to the world, and their customers.  Here’s <a href=\"http://www.networkcomputing.com/ipv6-tech-center/240001572?pgno=1\">A Snapshot of IPv6</a> and a few facts and figures to help put this world-wide event in perspective as written by Mike Fratto with Network Computing.\r\n\r\nIf you’re learning about IPv6 for the first time, or need help catching up, <a href=\"http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/ipv6/basics/\">here’s</a> a great place to start.  If you like to low-crawl through the weeds, check out the title <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/IPv6-Enterprise-Networks-Networking-Technology/dp/1587142279\"><em>IPv6 for Enterprise Networks</em></a> by Cisco Press. It’s an excellent reference whether you’re planning your IPv6 transition or configuring EIGRPv6.  This book was also used as a reference to write this blog, so if I’ve sparked your curiosity in learning more about IPv6 it’s a must-read.\r\n\r\n<strong>IPv6 in the Data Center</strong>\r\n\r\nAssuming you know a little about IPv6, let\'s explore a much over-looked area of IPv6 deployment – the data center.  Today’s virtualized data centers offer unique considerations to IPv6 deployment than that of a typical campus network. Let’s consider the following:\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n-          Virtualization of compute, network, and storage technologies\r\n\r\n-          Operating systems and mission critical applications\r\n\r\n-          Disaster recovery and high availability\r\n\r\nThis is by no means a comprehensive list, but these considerations definitely hit close to home to me, and if you use any of the technologies above, they should for you as well.\r\n\r\nAs many have learned and experienced, virtualization can increase business agility, lower costs, provide high availability and so much more. Platforms like Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) unify network, storage access, and server virtualization into a complete, easy to manage system.  Paired with a virtualization suite like VMware vSphere 5, managing thousands of Virtual Machines (VMs) from a centralized point of management becomes trivial.  This ease in administration does come at the cost of complexity when deciding how to support IPv6 all the way from your service provider down to your most critical application on a VM.\r\n\r\nWhether that application is on a UCS, being hosted in the Cloud, or on a physical server, you still have to manage and secure your data, and you’ll need to ensure your DR plan can execute over IPv6 to that site you’ve never been to in the middle of a cornfield in Nebraska.  Luckily, Cisco UCS and VMware vSphere 5 are both IPv6 ready, as are most recent operating systems and applications.\r\n\r\n<strong>Planning the Transition</strong>\r\n\r\nLeading the way, several governments have already started the transition to IPv6 through government directives.  For example, the United States, Australia, India, and Korea all have directives in action to transition to IPv6 by 2014.\r\n\r\nMake no mistake - deploying IPv6 for your enterprise will not be completed overnight. IPv4 will still probably be used for the next couple of decades with a slow, incremental transition to IPv6.  Each enterprise will have to decide when to transition based on their own business incentives, customer locations, and infrastructure costs.  There are a few requirements applicable to almost everyone.  The transition to IPv6 must…\r\n\r\n-          Not impact existing services\r\n\r\n-          Co-exist with IPv4 infrastructure\r\n\r\n-          Be low in cost\r\n\r\n-          Be transparent to the end user\r\n\r\nThere are plenty of options when it comes to deciding how you’ll transition and each data center has it’s own challenges and considerations.  Stay educated, plan for the future, and trust that the day will come when more of your customers are using IPv6 than IPv4. That day won’t be today or tomorrow, but it will come eventually.  Whether or not your infrastructure is prepared to service and support those customers in the future will depend on the choices you make today.\r\n\r\n<strong>Conclusion</strong>\r\n\r\nNot ready for IPv6? Don’t worry - there’s no need to panic or sell the farm.  As mentioned before, the adoption of IPv6 has been slow thus far so you definitely have some time to plan.  As it stands, we’re caught in a bit of a Catch-22.  Vendors don’t want to go “all-in” because of the lack of business incentive for implementing IPv6, and customers and companies who want to adopt native IPv6 aren’t able to without end-to-end support from vendors and providers.  Hopefully events like World IPv6 Day will help increase the necessary awareness and visibility to ensure a smooth transition for everyone.','TRANSITIONING TO IPV6 IN THE DATA CENTER','','inherit','open','open','','6777-revision-7','','','2012-06-08 13:52:09','2012-06-08 13:52:09','',6777,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6777-revision-7',0,'revision','',0),(6791,2,'2012-05-14 15:30:29','2012-05-14 15:30:29','Headquartered in South Carolina with offices throughout the entire southeast, eGroup is always looking for upbeat, driven and self-motivated \"go getters\" to join our rapidly growing team! Available positions include:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Sales Account Executive</strong></span>: As an eGroup Sales Executive, you will utilize your sales experience to extend eGroup’s products, services, and solutions to executive management in a defined geography or strategic area, with an emphasis on selling products and services as “solutions” designed to directly address the business initiatives and requirements of these customers. Professional territory management and account development skills are a must. You must be motivated to generate new business, provide excellent customer service, and be self-reliant. You must be able to prospect, qualify, engage, and manage all the elements of a complex solution sale. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/eGROUP-Sales-Account-Executive2.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Marketing and Corporate Communications Manager</strong></span><strong>: </strong>An excellent opportunity for the motivated professional, this vital team member will be responsible for strategic marketing and corporate communications aspects of company operations - and will provide leadership and coordination of business development activities associated with research and development of marketing/communication opportunities and plans. This position will have a heavy focus on developing eGroup brand recognition in new markets and evolving the awareness of eGroup as a southeastern company. This individual will be an essential and effective contributing member of the eGroup management and leadership team and will be chiefly responsible for developing and delivering the eGroup “experience”. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/eGroup-Marketing-and-Corporate-Communications-Manager2.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Inside Sales Executive</strong></span>: This is an excellent opportunity for the sales professional with a positive, “can do” attitude. The right individual will be responsible for engaging customers, vendors, distributors, and manufacturers to assist eGroup in building maintaining, and delivering its sales pipeline. This will include lead qualification, proposal development, and writing with customer follow-up. This is a fantastic opportunity to work within a growing organization while mastering your skills. As an eGroup Inside Sales Executive, you will utilize your skills and drive to assist our Outside Sales team in extending eGroup’s products, services, and solutions to customers and prospects. You must be motivated to provide excellent customer service, work well in a team environment, and be self-reliant. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/eGROUP-Inside-Sales-Executive1.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Technical Consultant</strong></span>: An excellent opportunity for the motivated technical sales professional, you\'ll be backed by eGroup\'s continual investment in market proven technologies and support resources.  These \"best of breed\" technology offerings will position you for success in delivering sophisticated solutions to a growing set of customers with increasingly complex needs. This position primarily focuses on consultation, design and deployment of VMware, EMC, Cisco, Microsoft and Citrix technologies. You will work directly with our outside and inside sales teams to meet with current and prospective customers, understand their needs, and propose technology solutions to help them overcome their challenges based on intimate knowledge of eGroup services, products and technologies.</li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Applications Services Engineer</strong></span>: An excellent opportunity for the motivated professional to be a part of a growing team of application and development focused professionals; the role of the Application Services Engineer is to assist in the design, deployment  and support of custom-developed and commercial application solutions that address business needs.  You will be customer facing, must be able to discuss with customers their unique business challenges and to communicate complex technical objectives in a detailed manner that can be received by audiences of all technical levels. You will work with the Application Services team to identify and develop new opportunities within the existing customer base. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ApplicationServicesEngineer.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Junior Applications Services Engineer</strong></span>: The role of the Junior Application Services Engineer is to assist in the design, deployment and support of custom-developed and commercial application solutions that address business needs.  You may work as part of a team or individually on tasks and projects of varying size and scope, clearly  documenting and delivering solutions that directly address customer requirements on time and within the defined scope of work.  You should have a firm understanding of theoretical computer science and applications development using object oriented techniques.   <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/JuniorApplicationServicesEngineer.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Systems Engineer</strong></span>:  This position primarily focuses on design, deployment, and support of VMware, EMC, Cisco, Microsoft and Citrix technologies. You will respond to and investigate end user inquiries, concerns, and issues via phone, Internet, e‐mail, and in person in a timely and courteous manner, and will recommend or perform actions to correct problems based on intimate knowledge of the technology or specific systems.  You should be proficient in communication both verbal and written, and be extremely passionate about technology. You should be a self‐motivated and driven individual capable of learning quickly and adapting to the latest industry trends and best practices. As a representative of eGroup, you must demonstrate a positive attitude and willingness to go above and beyond to ensure complete customer satisfaction. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/eGROUP-Systems-Engineer2.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>To apply or for more information: <a href=\"mailto:hr@eGroup-us.com\">hr@eGroup-us.com</a></strong>','Careers','','inherit','open','open','','4668-revision-v1','','','2012-05-14 15:30:29','2012-05-14 15:30:29','',4668,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/4668-revision-54',0,'revision','',0),(6796,35,'2012-06-12 02:33:49','2012-06-12 02:33:49','<pre>Add-PSSnapin VMware.View.Broker\r\nConnect-VIServer mecvcs01\r\n$a = get-date ((get-date).AddMinutes(2)) -format \"yyyy-MM-%d HH:mm\"\r\nGet-Pool -pool_id CHS | Get-DesktopVM | Send-LinkedCloneRefresh -schedule $a</pre>','REFRESH YOUR VMWARE VIEW POOLS WITH POWERCLI','','inherit','open','open','','6794-revision-2','','','2012-06-12 02:33:49','2012-06-12 02:33:49','',6794,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6794-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(6797,35,'2012-06-12 02:56:16','2012-06-12 02:56:16','The VMware View dashboard doesn\'t offer a built-in way to schedule a desktop pool refresh. As an administrator, you\'ll often want to schedule these types of activities for after business hours or during maintenance windows. Here\'s a PowerCLI script that lets you schedule VMware View pool refreshes on a one-time or periodic basis.<!--more-->\n\nHere\'s the whole script. Lines are marked with a number and parenthesis to avoid confusion with text wrapping.\n<pre>1) Add-PSSnapin VMware.View.Broker\n2) Connect-VIServer mecvcs01\n3) $a = get-date ((get-date).AddMinutes(2)) -format \"yyyy-MM-%d HH:mm\"\n4) Get-Pool -pool_id CHS | Get-DesktopVM | Send-LinkedCloneRefresh -schedule $a</pre>','REFRESH YOUR VMWARE VIEW POOLS WITH POWERCLI','','inherit','open','open','','6794-revision-3','','','2012-06-12 02:56:16','2012-06-12 02:56:16','',6794,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6794-revision-3',0,'revision','',0),(6798,35,'2012-06-12 02:57:17','2012-06-12 02:57:17','The VMware View dashboard doesn\'t offer a built-in way to schedule a desktop pool refresh. As an administrator, you\'ll often want to schedule these types of activities for after business hours or during maintenance windows. Here\'s a PowerCLI script that lets you schedule VMware View pool refreshes on a one-time or periodic basis.<!--more-->\n\nHere\'s the whole script. Lines are marked with a number and parenthesis to avoid confusion with text wrapping.\n<pre>1) Add-PSSnapin VMware.View.Broker\n2) Connect-VIServer mecvcs01\n3) $a = get-date ((get-date).AddMinutes(2)) -format \"yyyy-MM-%d HH:mm\"\n4) Get-Pool -pool_id CHS | Get-DesktopVM | Send-LinkedCloneRefresh -schedule $a</pre>\nLet\'s step through each line of the script and dig into what it does. Since this is a Powershell script, the first line ne','REFRESH YOUR VMWARE VIEW POOLS WITH POWERCLI','','inherit','open','open','','6794-revision-4','','','2012-06-12 02:57:17','2012-06-12 02:57:17','',6794,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6794-revision-4',0,'revision','',0),(6799,35,'2012-06-12 02:58:05','2012-06-12 02:58:05','The VMware View dashboard doesn\'t offer a built-in way to schedule a desktop pool refresh. As an administrator, you\'ll often want to schedule these types of activities for after business hours or during maintenance windows. Here\'s a PowerCLI script that lets you schedule VMware View pool refreshes on a one-time or periodic basis.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nHere\'s the whole script. Lines are marked with a number and parenthesis to avoid confusion with text wrapping.\r\n<pre>1) Add-PSSnapin VMware.View.Broker\r\n2) Connect-VIServer &lt;your View Connection Server hostname&gt;\r\n3) $a = get-date ((get-date).AddMinutes(2)) -format \"yyyy-MM-%d HH:mm\"\r\n4) Get-Pool -pool_id &lt;your pool ID&gt; | Get-DesktopVM | Send-LinkedCloneRefresh -schedule $a</pre>\r\nLet\'s step through each line of the script and dig into what it does. Since this is a Powershell script, the first line needs to import the VMware View snapins for Powershell.','REFRESH YOUR VMWARE VIEW POOLS WITH POWERCLI','','inherit','open','open','','6794-revision-5','','','2012-06-12 02:58:05','2012-06-12 02:58:05','',6794,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6794-revision-5',0,'revision','',0),(6800,35,'2012-06-12 02:58:07','2012-06-12 02:58:07','The VMware View dashboard doesn\'t offer a built-in way to schedule a desktop pool refresh. As an administrator, you\'ll often want to schedule these types of activities for after business hours or during maintenance windows. Here\'s a PowerCLI script that lets you schedule VMware View pool refreshes on a one-time or periodic basis.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nHere\'s the whole script. Lines are marked with a number and parenthesis to avoid confusion with text wrapping.\r\n<pre>1) Add-PSSnapin VMware.View.Broker\r\n2) Connect-VIServer &lt;your View Connection Server hostname&gt;\r\n3) $a = get-date ((get-date).AddMinutes(2)) -format \"yyyy-MM-%d HH:mm\"\r\n4) Get-Pool -pool_id &lt;your pool ID&gt; | Get-DesktopVM | Send-LinkedCloneRefresh -schedule $a</pre>\r\nLet\'s step through each line of the script and dig into what it does. Since this is a Powershell script, the first line needs to import the VMware View snapins for Powershell.','REFRESH YOUR VMWARE VIEW POOLS WITH POWERCLI','','inherit','open','open','','6794-revision-6','','','2012-06-12 02:58:07','2012-06-12 02:58:07','',6794,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6794-revision-6',0,'revision','',0),(6801,35,'2012-06-12 03:11:23','2012-06-12 03:11:23','The VMware View dashboard doesn\'t offer a built-in way to schedule a desktop pool refresh. As an administrator, you\'ll often want to schedule these types of activities for after business hours or during maintenance windows. Here\'s a PowerCLI script that lets you schedule VMware View pool refreshes on a one-time or periodic basis.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nHere\'s the whole script. Lines are marked with a number and parenthesis to avoid confusion with text wrapping.\r\n<pre>1) Add-PSSnapin VMware.View.Broker\r\n2) Connect-VIServer &lt;your View Connection Server hostname&gt;\r\n3) $a = get-date ((get-date).AddMinutes(2)) -format \"yyyy-MM-%d HH:mm\"\r\n4) Get-Pool -pool_id &lt;your pool ID&gt; | Get-DesktopVM | Send-LinkedCloneRefresh -schedule $a</pre>\r\nLet\'s step through each line of the script and dig into what it does. Since this is a Powershell script, the first line needs to import the VMware View snapins for Powershell.\r\n\r\nLine 2 logs the script in to your View Connection Server. To avoid saving a password in cleartext in the script, we\'ll have Windows store the credentials for the account this script will run as (more on that later).\r\n\r\nThe third line assigns the $a variable a time reference that is two minutes in the future. The specific formatting modifies the native Get-Date result into the time format that the next line is expecting. yyyy is a 4 digit year, MM is the numeric month with leading zeroes where appropriate, %d is the numeric day of the month without leading zeroes, HH is the hours in a 24-hour clock format, mm is the minutes past the hour. Be careful - almost all these tokens are case-sensitive (e.g. MM vs. mm).\r\n\r\nThe last line actually schedules the View Pool refresh for two minutes in the future using the variable we just built and formatted. You can find your View Pool ID listed in your View Connection Server.\r\n\r\nSave all this text in text file with a .ps1 extension to let the system know it\'s a Powershell script. Add a new task to Task Scheduler on your View Connection Server.','REFRESH YOUR VMWARE VIEW POOLS WITH POWERCLI','','inherit','open','open','','6794-revision-7','','','2012-06-12 03:11:23','2012-06-12 03:11:23','',6794,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6794-revision-7',0,'revision','',0),(6802,35,'2012-06-12 03:12:37','2012-06-12 03:12:37','','Screen Shot 2012-06-11 at 10.28.36 PM','','inherit','open','open','','screen-shot-2012-06-11-at-10-28-36-pm','','','2012-06-12 03:12:37','2012-06-12 03:12:37','',6794,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Screen-Shot-2012-06-11-at-10.28.36-PM.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(6803,35,'2012-06-12 03:14:17','2012-06-12 03:14:17','The VMware View dashboard doesn\'t offer a built-in way to schedule a desktop pool refresh. As an administrator, you\'ll often want to schedule these types of activities for after business hours or during maintenance windows. Here\'s a PowerCLI script that lets you schedule VMware View pool refreshes on a one-time or periodic basis.<!--more-->\n\nHere\'s the whole script. Lines are marked with a number and parenthesis to avoid confusion with text wrapping.\n<pre>1) Add-PSSnapin VMware.View.Broker\n2) Connect-VIServer &lt;your View Connection Server hostname&gt;\n3) $a = get-date ((get-date).AddMinutes(2)) -format \"yyyy-MM-%d HH:mm\"\n4) Get-Pool -pool_id &lt;your pool ID&gt; | Get-DesktopVM | Send-LinkedCloneRefresh -schedule $a</pre>\nLet\'s step through each line of the script and dig into what it does. Since this is a Powershell script, the first line needs to import the VMware View snapins for Powershell.\n\nLine 2 logs the script in to your View Connection Server. To avoid saving a password in cleartext in the script, we\'ll have Windows store the credentials for the account this script will run as (more on that later).\n\nThe third line assigns the $a variable a time reference that is two minutes in the future. The specific formatting modifies the native Get-Date result into the time format that the next line is expecting. yyyy is a 4 digit year, MM is the numeric month with leading zeroes where appropriate, %d is the numeric day of the month without leading zeroes, HH is the hours in a 24-hour clock format, mm is the minutes past the hour. Be careful - almost all these tokens are case-sensitive (e.g. MM vs. mm).\n\nThe last line actually schedules the View Pool refresh for two minutes in the future using the variable we just built and formatted. You can find your View Pool ID listed in your View Connection Server.\n\nSave all this text in text file with a .ps1 extension to let the system know it\'s a Powershell script. Add a new task to Task Scheduler on your View Connection Server. You\'ll want this task to run with highest privileges and run as a user that has administrative rights to your View environment (this is why you don\'t have to specify credentials in the script). For the script action, the program to run is C:\\Windows\\system32\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6802\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Screen-Shot-2012-06-11-at-10.28.36-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"493\" />','REFRESH YOUR VMWARE VIEW POOLS WITH POWERCLI','','inherit','open','open','','6794-revision-8','','','2012-06-12 03:14:17','2012-06-12 03:14:17','',6794,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6794-revision-8',0,'revision','',0),(6804,35,'2012-06-12 03:14:54','2012-06-12 03:14:54','The VMware View dashboard doesn\'t offer a built-in way to schedule a desktop pool refresh. As an administrator, you\'ll often want to schedule these types of activities for after business hours or during maintenance windows. Here\'s a PowerCLI script that lets you schedule VMware View pool refreshes on a one-time or periodic basis.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nHere\'s the whole script. Lines are marked with a number and parenthesis to avoid confusion with text wrapping.\r\n<pre>1) Add-PSSnapin VMware.View.Broker\r\n2) Connect-VIServer &lt;your View Connection Server hostname&gt;\r\n3) $a = get-date ((get-date).AddMinutes(2)) -format \"yyyy-MM-%d HH:mm\"\r\n4) Get-Pool -pool_id &lt;your pool ID&gt; | Get-DesktopVM | Send-LinkedCloneRefresh -schedule $a</pre>\r\nLet\'s step through each line of the script and dig into what it does. Since this is a Powershell script, the first line needs to import the VMware View snapins for Powershell.\r\n\r\nLine 2 logs the script in to your View Connection Server. To avoid saving a password in cleartext in the script, we\'ll have Windows store the credentials for the account this script will run as (more on that later).\r\n\r\nThe third line assigns the $a variable a time reference that is two minutes in the future. The specific formatting modifies the native Get-Date result into the time format that the next line is expecting. yyyy is a 4 digit year, MM is the numeric month with leading zeroes where appropriate, %d is the numeric day of the month without leading zeroes, HH is the hours in a 24-hour clock format, mm is the minutes past the hour. Be careful - almost all these tokens are case-sensitive (e.g. MM vs. mm).\r\n\r\nThe last line actually schedules the View Pool refresh for two minutes in the future using the variable we just built and formatted. You can find your View Pool ID listed in your View Connection Server.\r\n<pre>Save all this text in text file with a .ps1 extension to let the system know it\'s a Powershell script. Add a new task to Task Scheduler on your View Connection Server. You\'ll want this task to run with highest privileges and run as a user that has administrative rights to your View environment (this is why you don\'t have to specify credentials in the script). For the script action, the program to run is C:\\Windows\\system32\\WindowsPowershell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe and the optional argument is the path to your .ps1 script.</pre>\r\n<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6802\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Screen-Shot-2012-06-11-at-10.28.36-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"493\" />','REFRESH YOUR VMWARE VIEW POOLS WITH POWERCLI','','inherit','open','open','','6794-revision-9','','','2012-06-12 03:14:54','2012-06-12 03:14:54','',6794,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6794-revision-9',0,'revision','',0),(6805,35,'2012-06-12 03:14:56','2012-06-12 03:14:56','The VMware View dashboard doesn\'t offer a built-in way to schedule a desktop pool refresh. As an administrator, you\'ll often want to schedule these types of activities for after business hours or during maintenance windows. Here\'s a PowerCLI script that lets you schedule VMware View pool refreshes on a one-time or periodic basis.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nHere\'s the whole script. Lines are marked with a number and parenthesis to avoid confusion with text wrapping.\r\n<pre>1) Add-PSSnapin VMware.View.Broker\r\n2) Connect-VIServer &lt;your View Connection Server hostname&gt;\r\n3) $a = get-date ((get-date).AddMinutes(2)) -format \"yyyy-MM-%d HH:mm\"\r\n4) Get-Pool -pool_id &lt;your pool ID&gt; | Get-DesktopVM | Send-LinkedCloneRefresh -schedule $a</pre>\r\nLet\'s step through each line of the script and dig into what it does. Since this is a Powershell script, the first line needs to import the VMware View snapins for Powershell.\r\n\r\nLine 2 logs the script in to your View Connection Server. To avoid saving a password in cleartext in the script, we\'ll have Windows store the credentials for the account this script will run as (more on that later).\r\n\r\nThe third line assigns the $a variable a time reference that is two minutes in the future. The specific formatting modifies the native Get-Date result into the time format that the next line is expecting. yyyy is a 4 digit year, MM is the numeric month with leading zeroes where appropriate, %d is the numeric day of the month without leading zeroes, HH is the hours in a 24-hour clock format, mm is the minutes past the hour. Be careful - almost all these tokens are case-sensitive (e.g. MM vs. mm).\r\n\r\nThe last line actually schedules the View Pool refresh for two minutes in the future using the variable we just built and formatted. You can find your View Pool ID listed in your View Connection Server.\r\n<pre>Save all this text in text file with a .ps1 extension to let the system know it\'s a Powershell script. Add a new task to Task Scheduler on your View Connection Server. You\'ll want this task to run with highest privileges and run as a user that has administrative rights to your View environment (this is why you don\'t have to specify credentials in the script). For the script action, the program to run is C:\\Windows\\system32\\WindowsPowershell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe and the optional argument is the path to your .ps1 script.</pre>\r\n<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6802\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Screen-Shot-2012-06-11-at-10.28.36-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"493\" />','REFRESH YOUR VMWARE VIEW POOLS WITH POWERCLI','','inherit','open','open','','6794-revision-10','','','2012-06-12 03:14:56','2012-06-12 03:14:56','',6794,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6794-revision-10',0,'revision','',0),(6806,35,'2012-06-12 03:15:38','2012-06-12 03:15:38','The VMware View dashboard doesn\'t offer a built-in way to schedule a desktop pool refresh. As an administrator, you\'ll often want to schedule these types of activities for after business hours or during maintenance windows. Here\'s a PowerCLI script that lets you schedule VMware View pool refreshes on a one-time or periodic basis.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nHere\'s the whole script. Lines are marked with a number and parenthesis to avoid confusion with text wrapping.\r\n<pre>1) Add-PSSnapin VMware.View.Broker\r\n2) Connect-VIServer &lt;your View Connection Server hostname&gt;\r\n3) $a = get-date ((get-date).AddMinutes(2)) -format \"yyyy-MM-%d HH:mm\"\r\n4) Get-Pool -pool_id &lt;your pool ID&gt; | Get-DesktopVM | Send-LinkedCloneRefresh -schedule $a</pre>\r\nLet\'s step through each line of the script and dig into what it does. Since this is a Powershell script, the first line needs to import the VMware View snapins for Powershell.\r\n\r\nLine 2 logs the script in to your View Connection Server. To avoid saving a password in cleartext in the script, we\'ll have Windows store the credentials for the account this script will run as (more on that later).\r\n\r\nThe third line assigns the $a variable a time reference that is two minutes in the future. The specific formatting modifies the native Get-Date result into the time format that the next line is expecting. yyyy is a 4 digit year, MM is the numeric month with leading zeroes where appropriate, %d is the numeric day of the month without leading zeroes, HH is the hours in a 24-hour clock format, mm is the minutes past the hour. Be careful - almost all these tokens are case-sensitive (e.g. MM vs. mm).\r\n\r\nThe last line actually schedules the View Pool refresh for two minutes in the future using the variable we just built and formatted. You can find your View Pool ID listed in your View Connection Server.\r\nSave all this text in text file with a .ps1 extension to let the system know it\'s a Powershell script. Add a new task to Task Scheduler on your View Connection Server. You\'ll want this task to run with highest privileges and run as a user that has administrative rights to your View environment (this is why you don\'t have to specify credentials in the script). For the script action, the program to run is\r\n<pre>C:\\Windows\\system32\\WindowsPowershell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe</pre>\r\nand the optional argument is the path to your .ps1 script.\r\n<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6802\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Screen-Shot-2012-06-11-at-10.28.36-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"493\" />','REFRESH YOUR VMWARE VIEW POOLS WITH POWERCLI','','inherit','open','open','','6794-revision-11','','','2012-06-12 03:15:38','2012-06-12 03:15:38','',6794,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6794-revision-11',0,'revision','',0),(6807,35,'2012-06-12 03:15:40','2012-06-12 03:15:40','The VMware View dashboard doesn\'t offer a built-in way to schedule a desktop pool refresh. As an administrator, you\'ll often want to schedule these types of activities for after business hours or during maintenance windows. Here\'s a PowerCLI script that lets you schedule VMware View pool refreshes on a one-time or periodic basis.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nHere\'s the whole script. Lines are marked with a number and parenthesis to avoid confusion with text wrapping.\r\n<pre>1) Add-PSSnapin VMware.View.Broker\r\n2) Connect-VIServer &lt;your View Connection Server hostname&gt;\r\n3) $a = get-date ((get-date).AddMinutes(2)) -format \"yyyy-MM-%d HH:mm\"\r\n4) Get-Pool -pool_id &lt;your pool ID&gt; | Get-DesktopVM | Send-LinkedCloneRefresh -schedule $a</pre>\r\nLet\'s step through each line of the script and dig into what it does. Since this is a Powershell script, the first line needs to import the VMware View snapins for Powershell.\r\n\r\nLine 2 logs the script in to your View Connection Server. To avoid saving a password in cleartext in the script, we\'ll have Windows store the credentials for the account this script will run as (more on that later).\r\n\r\nThe third line assigns the $a variable a time reference that is two minutes in the future. The specific formatting modifies the native Get-Date result into the time format that the next line is expecting. yyyy is a 4 digit year, MM is the numeric month with leading zeroes where appropriate, %d is the numeric day of the month without leading zeroes, HH is the hours in a 24-hour clock format, mm is the minutes past the hour. Be careful - almost all these tokens are case-sensitive (e.g. MM vs. mm).\r\n\r\nThe last line actually schedules the View Pool refresh for two minutes in the future using the variable we just built and formatted. You can find your View Pool ID listed in your View Connection Server.\r\nSave all this text in text file with a .ps1 extension to let the system know it\'s a Powershell script. Add a new task to Task Scheduler on your View Connection Server. You\'ll want this task to run with highest privileges and run as a user that has administrative rights to your View environment (this is why you don\'t have to specify credentials in the script). For the script action, the program to run is\r\n<pre>C:\\Windows\\system32\\WindowsPowershell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe</pre>\r\nand the optional argument is the path to your .ps1 script.\r\n<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6802\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Screen-Shot-2012-06-11-at-10.28.36-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"493\" />','REFRESH YOUR VMWARE VIEW POOLS WITH POWERCLI','','inherit','open','open','','6794-revision-12','','','2012-06-12 03:15:40','2012-06-12 03:15:40','',6794,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6794-revision-12',0,'revision','',0),(6808,35,'2012-06-12 03:16:03','2012-06-12 03:16:03','The VMware View dashboard doesn\'t offer a built-in way to schedule a desktop pool refresh. As an administrator, you\'ll often want to schedule these types of activities for after business hours or during maintenance windows. Here\'s a PowerCLI script that lets you schedule VMware View pool refreshes on a one-time or periodic basis.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nHere\'s the whole script. Lines are marked with a number and parenthesis to avoid confusion with text wrapping.\r\n<pre>1) Add-PSSnapin VMware.View.Broker\r\n2) Connect-VIServer &lt;your View Connection Server hostname&gt;\r\n3) $a = get-date ((get-date).AddMinutes(2)) -format \"yyyy-MM-%d HH:mm\"\r\n4) Get-Pool -pool_id &lt;your pool ID&gt; | Get-DesktopVM | Send-LinkedCloneRefresh -schedule $a</pre>\r\nLet\'s step through each line of the script and dig into what it does. Since this is a Powershell script, the first line needs to import the VMware View snapins for Powershell.\r\n\r\nLine 2 logs the script in to your View Connection Server. To avoid saving a password in cleartext in the script, we\'ll have Windows store the credentials for the account this script will run as (more on that later).\r\n\r\nThe third line assigns the $a variable a time reference that is two minutes in the future. The specific formatting modifies the native Get-Date result into the time format that the next line is expecting. yyyy is a 4 digit year, MM is the numeric month with leading zeroes where appropriate, %d is the numeric day of the month without leading zeroes, HH is the hours in a 24-hour clock format, mm is the minutes past the hour. Be careful - almost all these tokens are case-sensitive (e.g. MM vs. mm).\r\n\r\nThe last line actually schedules the View Pool refresh for two minutes in the future using the variable we just built and formatted. You can find your View Pool ID listed in your View Connection Server.\r\n\r\nSave all this text in text file with a .ps1 extension to let the system know it\'s a Powershell script. Add a new task to Task Scheduler on your View Connection Server. You\'ll want this task to run with highest privileges and run as a user that has administrative rights to your View environment (this is why you don\'t have to specify credentials in the script). For the script action, the program to run is\r\n<pre>C:\\Windows\\system32\\WindowsPowershell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe</pre>\r\nand the optional argument is the path to your .ps1 script.\r\n<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6802\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Screen-Shot-2012-06-11-at-10.28.36-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"493\" />','REFRESH YOUR VMWARE VIEW POOLS WITH POWERCLI','','inherit','open','open','','6794-revision-13','','','2012-06-12 03:16:03','2012-06-12 03:16:03','',6794,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6794-revision-13',0,'revision','',0),(6809,35,'2012-06-12 03:16:04','2012-06-12 03:16:04','The VMware View dashboard doesn\'t offer a built-in way to schedule a desktop pool refresh. As an administrator, you\'ll often want to schedule these types of activities for after business hours or during maintenance windows. Here\'s a PowerCLI script that lets you schedule VMware View pool refreshes on a one-time or periodic basis.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nHere\'s the whole script. Lines are marked with a number and parenthesis to avoid confusion with text wrapping.\r\n<pre>1) Add-PSSnapin VMware.View.Broker\r\n2) Connect-VIServer &lt;your View Connection Server hostname&gt;\r\n3) $a = get-date ((get-date).AddMinutes(2)) -format \"yyyy-MM-%d HH:mm\"\r\n4) Get-Pool -pool_id &lt;your pool ID&gt; | Get-DesktopVM | Send-LinkedCloneRefresh -schedule $a</pre>\r\nLet\'s step through each line of the script and dig into what it does. Since this is a Powershell script, the first line needs to import the VMware View snapins for Powershell.\r\n\r\nLine 2 logs the script in to your View Connection Server. To avoid saving a password in cleartext in the script, we\'ll have Windows store the credentials for the account this script will run as (more on that later).\r\n\r\nThe third line assigns the $a variable a time reference that is two minutes in the future. The specific formatting modifies the native Get-Date result into the time format that the next line is expecting. yyyy is a 4 digit year, MM is the numeric month with leading zeroes where appropriate, %d is the numeric day of the month without leading zeroes, HH is the hours in a 24-hour clock format, mm is the minutes past the hour. Be careful - almost all these tokens are case-sensitive (e.g. MM vs. mm).\r\n\r\nThe last line actually schedules the View Pool refresh for two minutes in the future using the variable we just built and formatted. You can find your View Pool ID listed in your View Connection Server.\r\n\r\nSave all this text in text file with a .ps1 extension to let the system know it\'s a Powershell script. Add a new task to Task Scheduler on your View Connection Server. You\'ll want this task to run with highest privileges and run as a user that has administrative rights to your View environment (this is why you don\'t have to specify credentials in the script). For the script action, the program to run is\r\n<pre>C:\\Windows\\system32\\WindowsPowershell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe</pre>\r\nand the optional argument is the path to your .ps1 script.\r\n<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6802\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Screen-Shot-2012-06-11-at-10.28.36-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"493\" />','REFRESH YOUR VMWARE VIEW POOLS WITH POWERCLI','','inherit','open','open','','6794-revision-14','','','2012-06-12 03:16:04','2012-06-12 03:16:04','',6794,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6794-revision-14',0,'revision','',0),