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  • Enhancement to VAAI-NAS in vSphere 5.1

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    I’ve already done a write-up of the VAAI-NAS features in vSphere 5.0, but one of the three VAAI NAS primitives has expanded functionality in vSphere 5.1. In vSphere 5.1, the NFS File Cloning primitive is expanded to allow array-based snapshots to be used for virtual machines and vApps being fast-provisioned by vCloud Director.  When vCloud…

  • EMC Updates VFCache – Now Supports VMware vMotion

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    When EMC first announced VFCache back in February, I was one of the first folks to write about using VFCache in a VMware enviroment.  At launch, the short answer was: “You can, but there are some limits that might cause you to not want to…”, so I’m really pretty happy to report on EMC’s latest…

  • September EMC Solutions for VMware Webcasts

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    I’m a little late getting this posted. I’m going to use having been busy at VMworld 2012 last week as an excuse. (I’m not going to claim it’s a good excuse — it’s just the one I’m sticking with.) The webcasts we have coming up for September cover some great topics (even if I’m not…

  • Isilon Integration with VAAI-NAS and VASA

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    It’s come up on my VAAI v2 (NFS) write-up that today there are only two products that offer vSphere Storage API for Array Integration for NAS (VAAI-NAS) integration with vSphere 5.  We all know that more will be coming, and we all hope it’ll be sooner, rather than later.  Personally, I predict that Isilon will…

  • August’s EMC Solutions for VMware Webcasts

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    Everybody’s getting ready for VMworld 2012, and the Everything VMware at EMC Community is no different. The webcasts we have coming up for August cover some really great topics — and I’m not just saying that because I’m one of the featured speakers this month… One of the great things about this series is that…

  • Survey on Storage Integration with VMware

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    If you follow me on the Everything VMware at EMC community, you know that one of the topics I find most interesting is storage integration with VMware.  Last year, the good folks over at Wikibon conducted a massive survey on this exact topic to determine: How the various vendors stacked up compared to each other.…

  • VMworld 2012: Not Your Usual Session Voting Plea

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    If you travel in some of the same online circles that I do (and, since you’ve somehow found this post, you probably do), you’ve probably noticed the same thing I have: VWSVPS. VWSVPS is VMworld Session Voting Plea Syndrome.  Symptoms are indicated by any and all of your Twitter feeds RSS feeds Google+ stream normal…

  • June EMC Solutions for VMware Webcasts – “How To”

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    Over in the Everything VMware at EMC community, June is “How To” month.  The webcasts in June will all follow the “How To” theme. One of the great things about this series is that every webcast is recorded and then made available for on-demand viewing. As such, you may find it worth your while to…

  • VMware Announces Updates to View and Horizon Application Manager

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    [NOTE: The information in this post was provided to me by VMware in a pre-announcement briefing and was under embargo until 8:01 EDT 2 May 2012.] Today, 2 May 2012, VMware is announcing new advanced features in their End-User Computing solution set.  These features come to us in the form of VMware View version 5.1…

  • May EMC Solutions for VMware Webcasts

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    I may have a new job, but I’ll be staying on as the Community Manager for the Everything VMware at EMC site. It’s great to get to continue working with both the EMC VMware Affinity Team and the EMC Community Network Team in my new role. Since I’m in the Community Manager role, I thought…