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  • VMware Releases vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager

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    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), so the Multi-Hypervisor name seems ambitious.  I say we should keep in mind that this…

  • November EMC Solutions for VMware Webcasts

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    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 November cover some great topics. One of the great things about this series is that…

  • October EMC Solutions for VMware Webcasts

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    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 every webcast is recorded and then made available for on-demand viewing. As such, you may…

  • Running VMware View? Hold Off on Upgrading to vSphere 5.1

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    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 not certified to work with any version of View. You can see a list of…

  • 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.…