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		<title>Spanning-tree root switch determination</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robbert Jan van de Velde</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[STP, RSTP and MSTP are well known solutions for both loop detection and redundancy. Spanning-tree will determine the root switch and from that point it will calculate the link cost to the device. After the determination of the shortest path it &#8230; <a href="http://virtualrj.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/spanning-tree-root-switch-determination/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualrj.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5919811&amp;post=313&amp;subd=virtualrj&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Using a custom stylesheet in MOSS 2007</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robbert Jan van de Velde</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I&#8217;m working a lot with Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007. To customize the look of a Sharepoint site you can achieve a lot by customizing the CSS. When you load this CSS in your site this CSS will overwrite the &#8230; <a href="http://virtualrj.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/using-a-custom-stylesheet-in-moss-2007/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualrj.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5919811&amp;post=286&amp;subd=virtualrj&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IE Developer Toolbar doesn&#8217;t show DOM tree in IE7</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robbert Jan van de Velde</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet Explorer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To customize the look of a Sharepoint site you can achieve a lot by making a CSS which overrides the standard CSS (on that subject more later). To determine what part of the standard stylesheet I have to override the &#8230; <a href="http://virtualrj.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/ie-developer-toolbar-doesnt-show-dom-tree-in-ie7/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualrj.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5919811&amp;post=285&amp;subd=virtualrj&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beacon probing resulting in excessive broadcasts</title>
		<link>http://virtualrj.wordpress.com/2009/01/14/beacon-probing-resulting-in-excessive-broadcasts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robbert Jan van de Velde</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ESX 3.5]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not so long ago I posted a link to a VMWare blog in which beacon probing was demystified. This article stated that you only should use beacon probing when there is no link state tracking on the physical switches and you &#8230; <a href="http://virtualrj.wordpress.com/2009/01/14/beacon-probing-resulting-in-excessive-broadcasts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualrj.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5919811&amp;post=276&amp;subd=virtualrj&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s in your Request for Change document</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robbert Jan van de Velde</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IT Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m part of a relatively new IT department and we&#8217;re (re)building our processes. Part of those processes is change management. I think change management is really important in guaranteeing your uptime to your users. You just don&#8217;t want to change something big &#8230; <a href="http://virtualrj.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/whats-in-your-request-for-change-document/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualrj.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5919811&amp;post=268&amp;subd=virtualrj&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Connecting USB HD in ESX for back-up</title>
		<link>http://virtualrj.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/connecting-usb-hd-in-esx-for-back-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robbert Jan van de Velde</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ESX 3.5]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fdisk]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the new year begun some servers were due to be moved to another place more permanent burial place. Our &#8216;expensive&#8217; SAN storage space is too small to keep the old servers on it so it was time to move &#8230; <a href="http://virtualrj.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/connecting-usb-hd-in-esx-for-back-up/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualrj.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5919811&amp;post=242&amp;subd=virtualrj&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Virtualizing Red Had Enterprise Linux 2 (and all the troubles I had with it)</title>
		<link>http://virtualrj.wordpress.com/2009/01/06/virtualizing-red-had-enterprise-linux-2-and-all-the-troubles-i-had-with-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robbert Jan van de Velde</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Converter]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[BusLogic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some time I wanted to virtualize the only non-Windows server we had. It was a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2 server serving some old legacy application. This server had to be preserved en kept running for archiving purposes. So instead &#8230; <a href="http://virtualrj.wordpress.com/2009/01/06/virtualizing-red-had-enterprise-linux-2-and-all-the-troubles-i-had-with-it/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualrj.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5919811&amp;post=219&amp;subd=virtualrj&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Standard ESX networking tasks from command line (Part 2)</title>
		<link>http://virtualrj.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/standard-esx-networking-tasks-from-command-line-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robbert Jan van de Velde</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ESX 3.5]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[esxcfg-nics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In part 1 I covered some NIC operations from command line. In part 2 I will cover some standard virtual switch tasks like adding and deleting a virtual switch and making and configuring PortGroups. So here goes for virtual switch operations&#8230; &#8230; <a href="http://virtualrj.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/standard-esx-networking-tasks-from-command-line-part-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualrj.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5919811&amp;post=151&amp;subd=virtualrj&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Standard ESX networking tasks from command line (Part 1)</title>
		<link>http://virtualrj.wordpress.com/2009/01/03/standard-esx-networking-tasks-from-command-line-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robbert Jan van de Velde</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I was looking around in the command line interface (which is pretty new for me) I came around the esxcfg- command set. In particular the commands to manage the NIC&#8217;s (part 1) and the vSwitches (part 2) raised my &#8230; <a href="http://virtualrj.wordpress.com/2009/01/03/standard-esx-networking-tasks-from-command-line-part-1/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualrj.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5919811&amp;post=143&amp;subd=virtualrj&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Switch meshing ProCurve switches unless&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:09:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robbert Jan van de Velde</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; you are using those switches for routing. Great so the only option for improving my networking environment for load balancing my ESX environment was crushed by these two HP documents: Switch Meshing and LAN Aggregation Through Switch Meshing. Apparently &#8230; <a href="http://virtualrj.wordpress.com/2009/01/03/switch-meshing-procurve-switches-unless/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualrj.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5919811&amp;post=127&amp;subd=virtualrj&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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