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VMware Releases vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager

VMware has added the ability to manage non-vSphere hypervisors to vCenter with the release of vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager 1.0. At the moment, the only non-VMware hypervisor it supports is Microsoft’s Hyper-V (although in both the 2008 and 2008 R2 flavors), … Continue reading

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November EMC Solutions for VMware Webcasts

While I’ve been occupied with Certification Quest (blog post coming on that), October has come to an end and November is just about to start, bringing with it a new set of webcasts. The webcasts we have coming up for … Continue reading

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October EMC Solutions for VMware Webcasts

Somehow, it became October without my noticing it. With a new month comes a new set of webcasts. The webcasts we have coming up for October cover some great topics. One of the great things about this series is that … Continue reading

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Running VMware View? Hold Off on Upgrading to vSphere 5.1

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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Enhancement to VAAI-NAS in vSphere 5.1

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

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

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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Isilon Integration with VAAI-NAS and VASA

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 … Continue reading

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August’s EMC Solutions for VMware Webcasts

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 … Continue reading

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Survey on Storage Integration with VMware

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 … Continue reading

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