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	<title>Lewan &#38; Associates IT Solutions Technical Blog &#187; General Storage</title>
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		<title>Seagate 500GB Hybrid 7200rpm and 4GB SSD Harddrive &#8211; Thoughts and Speed Results</title>
		<link>http://blog.lewan.com/2011/01/09/seagate-500gb-hybrid-7200rpm-and-4gb-ssd-harddrive-thoughts-and-speed-results/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lewan.com/2011/01/09/seagate-500gb-hybrid-7200rpm-and-4gb-ssd-harddrive-thoughts-and-speed-results/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 17:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>djlaube</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My MacBook Pro came with a 500GB 5400 rpm drive stock. I was looking at upgrading to a faster drive. I looked at traditional 7200 rpm drives as well as SSD drives, which are still quite expensive for $/GB. So &#8230; <a href="http://blog.lewan.com/2011/01/09/seagate-500gb-hybrid-7200rpm-and-4gb-ssd-harddrive-thoughts-and-speed-results/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Enterprise SSD market to soar</title>
		<link>http://blog.lewan.com/2010/05/18/enterprise-ssd-market-to-soar/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lewan.com/2010/05/18/enterprise-ssd-market-to-soar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 02:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>danbrinkmann</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Storage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve definitely been noticing an uptick in SSD interest and I feel this is one of those transformational technologies…you know, the kind that are like shaking the etch-a-sketch.&#160; SSD not only is the cheapest $ per IO it also offers &#8230; <a href="http://blog.lewan.com/2010/05/18/enterprise-ssd-market-to-soar/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Setting Up FCOE on a Nexus 5000</title>
		<link>http://blog.lewan.com/2009/10/26/setting-up-fcoe-on-a-nexus-5000/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lewan.com/2009/10/26/setting-up-fcoe-on-a-nexus-5000/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>djlaube</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cisco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Storage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Scott Lowe posted yesterday on how to setup Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCOE) on a Cisco Nexus 5000. He made a very easy to follow How-To guide, which is located here: http://blog.scottlowe.org/2009/10/25/setting-up-fcoe-on-a-nexus-5000/]]></description>
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		<title>Provisioning with iSCSI and Solaris ZFS in 10 Minutes</title>
		<link>http://blog.lewan.com/2009/10/21/provisioning-with-iscsi-and-solaris-zfs-in-10-minutes/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lewan.com/2009/10/21/provisioning-with-iscsi-and-solaris-zfs-in-10-minutes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>djlaube</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Storage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Solaris]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a great Wiki article from Sun explaining how to work with iSCSI on Solaris as well as working with the ZFS filesystem on iSCSI devices: http://wikis.sun.com/display/BluePrints/Provisioning+with+iSCSI+and+Solaris+ZFS+in+10+Minutes Here is also a link for a HP Lefthand document which describes &#8230; <a href="http://blog.lewan.com/2009/10/21/provisioning-with-iscsi-and-solaris-zfs-in-10-minutes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>CentOS / Red Hat Linux: Working with iSCSI</title>
		<link>http://blog.lewan.com/2009/10/20/centos-red-hat-linux-working-with-iscsi/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lewan.com/2009/10/20/centos-red-hat-linux-working-with-iscsi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>djlaube</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Storage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a great article on how to install the iSCSI software initiator on Linux and then connect to volumes. http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/rhel-centos-fedora-linux-iscsi-howto.html The article mentions the steps were tested on Redhat Enterprise (RHEL) v5, CentOS v5, Fedora v7 and Debian/Ubuntu Linux. &#8230; <a href="http://blog.lewan.com/2009/10/20/centos-red-hat-linux-working-with-iscsi/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>SAS vs. SATA Differences, Technology and Cost</title>
		<link>http://blog.lewan.com/2009/09/14/sas-vs-sata-differences-technology-and-cost/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lewan.com/2009/09/14/sas-vs-sata-differences-technology-and-cost/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>djlaube</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Storage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of our resources at HP Lefthand Networks (thanks Ben!) made the following comment to one of our customers and I thought it&#8217;d be a perfect post for the blog as it contains some useful information that some might not be &#8230; <a href="http://blog.lewan.com/2009/09/14/sas-vs-sata-differences-technology-and-cost/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Raw SAN Network Speeds</title>
		<link>http://blog.lewan.com/2009/08/06/raw-san-network-speeds/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lewan.com/2009/08/06/raw-san-network-speeds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>djlaube</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Storage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s some RAW SAN network speeds that I found in some post somewhere (which I didn&#8217;t write down).. Obviously there are a lot of caveats related to this, but from a pure bandwidth perspective, I thought this was interesting for &#8230; <a href="http://blog.lewan.com/2009/08/06/raw-san-network-speeds/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How To Collect Data From a Fibre Channel (FC) Switch</title>
		<link>http://blog.lewan.com/2009/06/15/how-to-collect-data-from-a-fibre-channel-fc-switch/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lewan.com/2009/06/15/how-to-collect-data-from-a-fibre-channel-fc-switch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>djlaube</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Storage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manuals & How-To's]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you will be asked by either the manufacturers support or perhaps by Lewan for data from your Fibre Channel switch. Here is how you can gather that information in a format that helps support and/or Lewan: Brocade &#8211; How-To &#8230; <a href="http://blog.lewan.com/2009/06/15/how-to-collect-data-from-a-fibre-channel-fc-switch/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>How to configure OpenFiler v2.3 iSCSI Storage for use with VMware ESX</title>
		<link>http://blog.lewan.com/2009/04/02/how-to-configure-openfiler-v23-iscsi-storage-for-use-with-vmware-esx/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lewan.com/2009/04/02/how-to-configure-openfiler-v23-iscsi-storage-for-use-with-vmware-esx/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>djlaube</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Storage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virtualization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my to-do list was to write up a How-To on using OpenFiler iSCSI storage appliance with VMware ESX. The OpenFiler appliance is a free appliance that you can use to turn local storage into an iSCSI target. Well, Simon &#8230; <a href="http://blog.lewan.com/2009/04/02/how-to-configure-openfiler-v23-iscsi-storage-for-use-with-vmware-esx/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Xtravirt XVS iSCSI SAN VM Appliance</title>
		<link>http://blog.lewan.com/2009/02/04/xtravirt-xvs-iscsi-san-vm-appliance/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lewan.com/2009/02/04/xtravirt-xvs-iscsi-san-vm-appliance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>djlaube</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Storage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virtualization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[VM/ETC posted awhile back an excellent article about a free iSCSI SAN VM appliance that you can download from Xtravirt, which I just found today. It doesn&#8217;t sound like it can scale beyond using storage from 2 ESX servers, but &#8230; <a href="http://blog.lewan.com/2009/02/04/xtravirt-xvs-iscsi-san-vm-appliance/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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