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		<title>Problem installing or upgrading HP Management Agents v8.5.1 on ESX Server 4.0 Update 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Burchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Updated note: This problem seems to persist and reoccur with ESX / vSphere 4.1 as well. Same steps noted below seem to work around the problem. HP recently released an updated version of their Management Agents for ESX Server 4.0. As usual, HP &#8220;&#8230;recommends users update to this versio at their earliest convenience&#8230;&#8221; so I did. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VMware vSphere Client on Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Burchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to resolve problems with vSphere client not running on Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit]]></description>
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		<title>How to align virtual machine OS and data partitions in ESX Server</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 05:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Burchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[VMware&#8217;s Recommendations for VMFS Alignment performance study article suggests that it is not necessary to align the boot disk in a virtual machine and that it is only recommended for data disks in a virutal machine. While a data disk in a virtual machine is likely to generate the largest amount of disk I/O in a virtual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Performance impact of unaligned disk partitions on ESX Server</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Burchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By default, ESX Server exhibits the same disk partition alignment problems as seen on all Intel-based platforms. As is common with all Intel-based systems, the first track on a disk is reserved for the boot code or MBR. This means that the first partition of the disk starts at cylinder 0, head 1, sector 1. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOWTO: Use HP Power Manager Agent on ESX Server 3.5</title>
		<link>http://www.nptech.com/blog/2008/11/30/howto-use-hp-power-manager-agent-on-esx-server/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nptech.com/blog/2008/11/30/howto-use-hp-power-manager-agent-on-esx-server/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 04:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Burchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are using the HP Power Manager (HPPM) product in a configuration with only ESX servers, HP has an excellent document on recommended configuration settings here: HP Power Software Installation and Configuration Guidelines for VMware ESX If your HP Power Manager server is installed on another machine (say, a Windows management server) and you [...]]]></description>
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