Monthly Archives: September 2012

Running VMware View? Hold Off on Upgrading to vSphere 5.1

Posted on 12 September 2012 by GeekFluent

I know we’re all excited to get at all the new features of vSphere 5.1 now that it’s available for download, but if you’re currently running VMware View, you should hold off for now. At the moment, vSphere 5.1 is … Continue reading →

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Introducing Mixed Message Mondays

Posted on 10 September 2012 by GeekFluent

Some of my hybrid job description covers Marketing and Marketing-related work, so I thought it only appropriate that I blog about marketing occasionally. With that idea in mind, I’m introducing a new feature on GeekFluent: Mixed Message Mondays.  Each Mixed … Continue reading →

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Enhancement to VAAI-NAS in vSphere 5.1

Posted on 5 September 2012 by GeekFluent

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 … Continue reading →

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EMC Updates VFCache – Now Supports VMware vMotion

Posted on 4 September 2012 by GeekFluent

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 … Continue reading →

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September EMC Solutions for VMware Webcasts

Posted on 3 September 2012 by GeekFluent

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 … Continue reading →

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