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Bob and Eric discuss the availability of the 1300.00 RT4000 with 20 Gig of memory and using it in the MiniForum to run AI models.
Rajesh Kadam has worked at CEO of PipeIQ and has seen the shift from AI in the Cloud to AI in the datacenter. Rajesh talks about why Private AI from VCF 9 makes sense for mature AI workloads.
Comdivision CEO Yves Sanfort comes to Palo Alto to work with VCF teams and talks about customer adoption across the globe, from Europe, now to America's and also a APJ perspecitve. Yves also covers the AI drivers in the enterprise and moving workloads back to VCF from other Vendors.
Brad Tompkins comes on the show to talk about VMUG at Explore, the Reception, Sessions, Booth and the all important Advantage discount. Also don't forget your VCP certification for your home lab licenses.
The event team talks about what it's like to build the event this year and what's going to be new and fun in 2025 Vegas. Loads of new things and really targeting the community. Great Show!
Eric and Corey talk about the new MiniForum PC that has 16 cores, 32 threads, 128 gig of memory and 3 SSD's for VSAN, ESX and Tier Memory support. This little guy is a beast that is great for a VCF 9 home lab. It also has an external PCIe Bus to allow you to connect GPU's to run VCF 9 Private AI models. Cool Beans all the way around. These machines will be at the VMware {code} lab at explore. Not too late to get a ticket!
Kelly and David give us a behind the scene look at what it took to do the all new VCF 9 labs that were part of the VCF 9 launch, and what's coming at Explore with more lab content then any one person can take. They also talk about the Odyssey competition that will happen again this year!
Learn why vGPU's are now the new CPU's when it comes to workload balancing and management. Tasha and Drew talk about core VCF 9 AI workloads, models, and much more.
Discussion with Don Horrox around VCF 9, what he sees as new and the SkyLine Replacement
VCF 9 has done a lot of work consolidating all the API's from ESX, VSAN, NSX and more. Angel and Jatin discuss the performance improvement and what it's like to have a common API across all three without breaking compatibility.
Corey, Eric and Bob talk with Maryam Scoble discussing the explore content catalog release on June 17th, whats new and what will be coming. With VCF 9 now launched, there was plenty to talk about. An Exciting week with all the VCF 9 activities.
Lei Wang joins Eric and Bob to discuss the inclusion of vDefend and Avi as offerings in the VMUG advantage package.
Bob and Eric discuss all things community and the Virtual Event streaming June 24th. So much going on.
Join us and hear the Journey Tamecka took in modernizing to VCF at the FT Lauderdale Police department. Saving money while upgrading to new solution architecture.
Home Lab is back, with Advantage licenses deploying next week, and many people installing VCF on home NUCs, there is plenty of momentum around things to learn and play with ! Marc Crawford talks about his learnings!
All the ins and outs for managing your recovery strategy with Tarisio Moraes, knowing failure modes and plans for recovery based on VMware's offerings.
Eric, Corey and Bob discuss the Launch of the VMUG advantage VCF labs, the Hardware needed and of Course vExperts. If you want to see the hardware SPECs for you NUCs, look here: https://fojta.wordpress.com/2025/02/23/gmktec-k8-plus-vsphere-mini-lab/
Topic: Disaster Recovery for MS SQL Server Workloads in VMware Cloud FoundationThe Importance of a Reliable Disaster Recovery Plan"Deji, disaster recovery (DR) planning is often overlooked until an actual disaster occurs. Why is it particularly crucial for MS SQL Server workloads, and what are the most common mistakes enterprises make when it comes to protecting mission-critical databases?"VMware Live Recovery (VLR): Transforming Disaster Recovery in VCF"Let’s talk about VMware Live Recovery (VLR)—VMware’s solution for disaster recovery within VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). Can you explain what VLR does and how it ensures a reliable, repeatable, and simplified recovery process for enterprise-class SQL Server clusters?"How VLR Simplifies Disaster Recovery for MS SQL Server in VCF"SQL Server clusters are often complex to manage, especially during failover scenarios. How does VLR reduce that complexity and provide a more seamless disaster recovery experience for organizations using VCF?"Configuring VMware Live Recovery for MS SQL Server: Key Considerations"For organizations looking to implement VMware Live Recovery (VLR) for their SQL Server workloads, what are the key steps in configuring and deploying a robust disaster recovery plan? What factors should IT teams keep in mind during setup?"Best Practices for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity"Even with powerful tools like VLR, having a well-designed DR plan is key. What are some of the best practices you recommend to ensure SQL Server workloads can be recovered quickly and efficiently? How can businesses improve their Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO)?"How VMware Cloud Foundation Enhances Disaster Recovery"VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) unifies compute, storage, and networking, providing a seamless infrastructure for workloads. How does VCF enhance disaster recovery capabilities for SQL Server workloads, and how does it integrate with VMware Live Recovery?"Avoiding Common Pitfalls in Disaster Recovery Planning"From your experience, what are the most common pitfalls organizations face when implementing disaster recovery for SQL Server? How can IT teams proactively test and refine their DR strategies before disaster strikes?"12:55 - 1:00: Closing CommentsFinal takeaways from Deji.Wrap-Up with the Barbecue Report: Deji shares his favorite barbecue dish or a memorable community BBQ moment.
Join Eric Nielsen and Bob Plankers on the VMware Community Podcast as they talk with Varghese Philipose
Community is booming in Q3 and Q4, everyone is back, Explore Europe leadership is overbooked and Hock is visiting UserCons and speaking at community events.
Day 3 projects underway to improve the community experience. New Community Landing Page, New HomeLab License Program, and VMUG support in 2025.
Yves Sanffort Comdivision CEO gives his perspective on progress as customers move to VCF, AI and our Cloud offerings.
Join Eric and Corey where they discuss how to enable Okta for vCenter with Arkadisuz Krowczynski. His blog on the topic can be found at https://iamse.blog/2023/04/25/enable-okta-for-vmware-vcenter-server/
The VMware Events team is joining us to talk about what's new at Explore this year in Vegas. All the great things are happening this year with a better location for Hackathon, Community Party in the
We interview Rutger and Luis covering their trending SDDC Lab Version 6, a blog article that can be found at https://https://rutgerblom.com/2024/01/26/sddc-lab-v6-released/. The SDDC.Lab project is a series of Ansible Playbooks that preform fully automated doployments of nested VMware Software Defined Data Center Environments called pods. Each Pod consists of solutions like vSphere, VSAN, NSX, Tanzu and NSX Advanced Load Balancer, Aria Operations for Logs and VyOS Router.
Piotr talks about Virtualization Virtuoso. NOt your typical chatbot, "it's a technical powerhouse designed for VMware professionals familiar with industry jargon and technical terminology.
It's easy to jump onto a existing tech community, it's challenging to build a new community. Tommy Berry is joining us to talk about the challenges and success for strategies when building a new community. Tommy went to Couchbase and won Marketer of the year while building a new community and brand presence !
The VMware Rewards Program will continue under Broadcom and expand to all Broadcom Divisions. Another great example of how Broadcom "gets" community.
VMUG 2024 Kicksoff with UserCons and chapter meetings, Broadcom is 100% funding the VMware commitments in 2024 as is the VMware Division leaders. Brad and Molly discuss this years outlook for activities and challenges the IT practioners might face with VCF licensing and new partner models.
We have recruited Franky Barragan (SE and Engineer) to focus on VMware{code} as a key community. Franky comes on to talk about his 2024 plans for the {code} community. Sample Exchange, PowerShell sessions, VMUG integration and more!
Join Eric, Corey as they provide updates on vExpert 2024, and then interview Michael Roy as he talks about the new release of Fusion and Workstation. As always they will discuss the latest with Apple's M series laptop and Windows on ARM.
Eric shares the news, what's going on in 2024 with the new VMware by Broadcom, he shares inside views and what the 2024 community plan looks like!
Franky reviews his blog article that covers the 12 days holiday task list for setting up and modernizing you home lab. Have you seen Mark H vcdx181's environment, day 9 covers his high availability home lab
Topic: Interview with Yevs Sanford & Sascha from Comdivision Lets get a outside perspective with Guests:Yeves Sanford CEO Comdivision & Sascha Schwunk (title) Comdivision Host: Eric Nielsen & Matt LangguthCo-Host: Matt Langguth
Popular Blogger Piotr Tarnawski talks about his blog on the Abyss Locker Ransomeware with Corey and Matt
Join Matt and Eric as they say goodbye to Dell. At the same time they meet with Matt Just to talk about Aria Operations for Networks 6.11.
Doug Baer long time guest from the HOL team comes to talk about the History of HOL and how it Impacted VMware over the last 10 years, and where it might go under broadcom
John Furrier and Corey Romero talk Community history and the value of being an evangelist in the days of Cloud Computing.
Listen to the VMware Event leadership team discuss VMware Explore Vegas as we near the 2 week pre-mark for the event. With event registration trending well and back in Vegas trending, learn what the team has in store and get a glimpse into the behind the scene thinking.
Luciano joins the community podcast and takes us through his blog article: https://www.provirtualzone.com/what-is-vmware-hcx-and-how-does-it-work/, discussing HCX and how it works. Updates on Explore, Hackathon and other news!
The current version of NSX supports Multi-Tenancy through GUI enhancements vs just API support in previous version. This blogger takes us through the screenshots and functionality of the Multi-Tenancy.
Britton Johnson is Staff Solution Engineer at VMware and has created a 4 part series on NSX Platform architecture, focused on NSX 4.X. The youtube series is one of the popular trending vBrownbag talks on Youtube. We talk to Britton about his series and major takeaways.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6J3ofyELU8
Clemens is a Sr Staff Engineer as part of the xLabs group, and has a great project on the OCTO website, https://octo.vmware.com/project-trinidad-merging-security-with-modern-application-observability-part-3-ml-based-workload-security/. We talk to Clemens about the project and what it means to have security when dealing with modern apps.
Nick Kuhn talks about the upcoming release of Tanzu Application Service 4.0 and gives a high-level overview of what TAS and Cloud Foundry and how customers are using them.
Wouter Kursten talks about the Horizon Golden Image Deployment Tool in his blog https://www.retouw.nl/hgidtool. Join the community team as we discuss Wouter's blog.
Eric and Jean talk about VMUG and chapter participation, the ultimate way to engage with your local community friends in your city. Always a great way to meet others and move your career forward. Friends and People are the fun of the journey!
Niels Hagoort takes us through 1VMC-A: The New Instance Type, new Storage Options, and Cloud Flex Compute. Niels is a Staff Technical Marketing Architect on the VMC team at VMware.
Enrique Estrada - Senior Director, Healthcare Industry Solutions and Riley Bui - Product Marketing Manager will join Eric and Matt to discus how the healthcare industry uses Horizon.
Bob Plankers explains what we did wrong when our HomeLab was hacked and Ransomed for 2.1 bitcoins. Bob also explains how we might recover because poor encryption.
European Community Members discuss their expectations of what's going to be happening in 2024. Including VMware Explore in Barcelona 2023!
Did you miss the vExpert gift this year, you can get a great NUC system for 249.99 to start your holiday project this year. With this hardware you get a silent home lab system (no fan) that will run vSphere 8. Pick up the VMUG advantage membership for 200.00 and get a vSphere 8 license and all the rest. A great 2023 kickstart to update your skills and have fun.
Eric and Matt discuss the new Fusion and Workstation release that supports the M2 from Apple.
Join Matt, Corey and Eric as we spend time with Eduardo Meirelles , Senior Cloud Architect from VMware. Where he will attempt to demystify Aria, VMware's new brand of Cloud management solutions. VMware Aria is an intelligent multi-cloud management solution that enables you to consistently deploy and operate your apps, infrastructure, and platform services across private, hybrid, and multiple clouds from a single platform with a common data model.
Julia Klaus the new VMTN community manager talk about the vBrownbag sessions and VMware{code} sessions at VMwareExplore Europe with Corey Romero and Matt Langguth.
VMUG Community Leader Ariel Sanchez joins Matt and Eric to talk about the rest of 2023 and what it means to participate in community activities after VMwareExplore. Loads of momentum after the event, as people realize what community adds to their life.
Robert Scoble brings the VMware community an update on Spatial Computing and Augmented Reality, where are we going and how is thing going to impact IT GPU consumption as the Cloud becomes the delivery of model generation.
Bob reviews his thoughts of VMwareExplore with Eric and Corey, a great event and many interesting takeaways.
We are headed to VMwareExplore the first of the re-branded event. Eric, Matt & Corey share what they think will come out of the show, and how people can watch the keynote live.
John Furrier from thecube gives us the update from his SuperCloud industry event. Learn what's on John's mind, whats happening with the cloud industry and all things Broadcom!
Vittorio and Pam talk to us about the new concept "SuperCloud" which is a new industry term, bringing cloud partners together to establish standards and architectures for managing a global cloud infrastructure comprised of multiple cloud vendors.
VMware's CMP Laura Heisman talks about what SaaS Marketing is, and how VMware marketing will change in order to transition to a SaaS/Subscription business.
Bill Roth and Eric Nielsen take us through the NUC strategy at VMware Explore. Where the Code Labs will teach some basic home lab setup on NUC's and Tanzu deployment. We will also use the LiveCopper Inc X86 I2C smart desk unit to run senors apps and control them via Tanzu! A fun lab for learning and coding.
With the launch of vSphere+ and vSAN+, Dave explains how they both deliver benefits of the Cloud to Your On-premises Workloads
Great conversation with Alison Crooker and Maryam Scoble from the Events Team! Content Calendar is now LIVE!
VMware is launching it's new VMware Community Rewards Program, where you can get points by participating in various programs and community activities.
Michael covers all the popular questions around getting started with VMware Cloud Foundation from hardware requirements, Remote Clusters, HCI Mesh and SDDC Management.
Listen to Matt and Eric talk with EUC Staff Solutions Engineer talking about the state of Enterprise Mobility Management. From the days of AirWatch to today's full enterprise management with VMware Workspace One solutions.
Lino Telera joins Eric to speak about his journey from learning to Automate the DataCenter to using API's for more sophisticated control. Lino speaks to the trials and rewards when engaging with the automation community VMware{code}. From hackathons to slack engagements, the hour long show goes fast!
Alistar Cooke will join us to speak about vBrownbags plan on live event participation including the call for sessions for VMware Explore
Amanda Blevins joins the podcast to discuss the results of VMware's Multi-Cloud Briefing for Q2.
Amanda Blevins joins the podcast to discuss the results of VMware's Multi-Cloud Briefing for Q2.
Rick runs a monthly LiveSteam with the Howlers, a group of key security influencers that utilize Carbon Black to provide IT with Cybersecurity Solutions. Rick will give us a lay of the land and big priorities for himself and Carbon Black for the rest of 2022.
Get an inside look at the announcement of the all New EXPLORE conference. The re-branding of VMworld has happened. Sandra talks about what will remain the same, and what will be new. Learn VMware's reasoning and where we expect the new in person event will take us! Exciting times with the Event team at VMware.
Senior Technical Marketing Architect with Cloud Product Business Unit Bob Plankers takes us through what we learned when living through the Log4j security situation. Many companies had fire drill over the 2021 Holiday season dealing with SasS product compliance to on premises IT infrastructure vulnerabilities. Bob discusses what VMware has learned.
Brock is back to talk vROps management packs for Compute and Storage. You can read his blog post on the topic at https://www.brockpeterson.com/post/vrops-management-pack-for-kubernetes
Listen to PSO Conultant Rudi Martinsen discussing Installing Contour on a Tanzu Community Edition cluster. On his blog rudimartinsen.com Rudy installs various packages such as MetaLB on TCE. Hear what Rudi has to say about the tec-repo and steps needed to setup Contour.
Running Kubernetes in the cloud is something all IT architects will face, avoiding lock-in is important. Ryan Kelly discusses strategies to avoid lock-in by using VMware multi-cloud solutions to accomplish true cloud freedom in a Kubernetes application landscape.
Running Kubernetes in the cloud is something all IT architects will face, avoiding lock-in is important. Ryan Kelly discusses strategies to avoid lock-in by using VMware multi-cloud solutions to accomplish true cloud freedom in a Kubernetes application landscape.
John Towels talks about the evolution of Mobile Flows in Workspace One to the new Experience Workflows and takes us through an example of a new Experience Flow enabling Adobe Sign.
Learn what Jason believes is the value of having ESXi underneath your Telco Solution, as many competitors market Bare-Metal solutions.
Meet Piotr Tarnawski who runs the AngrySysop.com Bog, Piotr has 44 Articles on vCenter, 17 on vROps and 14 on Powershell. We will cover some of his favorite articles, what makes him blog and learn what it's like for him as a enterprise IT Operations Engineer at a fortune 500 company!
Podcast with Glen Simon product marketing manager for vSphere. Glen talks about the final release of vSphere Update 3.1c, fixing the deployment bugs and building a stable release.
Marc Huppert VCDX181 gives us an update on one of the best home lab environments on the planet. He updated his lab with a new Network, and gives us insight on how to budget and plan for updates to your own home lap. Check out his blog: http://vcdx181.com where he has 60+ blogs on his home lab environment.
A new release of NSX-T version 3.2 was release in December 2021, Eric and Matt cover those features with Thomas and Geoff. The NSX-T release was a major release with some great new features such as Multi-cloud security, Networking and policy enhancements and Simplified network provisioning and operations. The guests cover features highlighted in the blog: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2021/12/vmware-nsx-t-3-2-released-new-features/
The new M1 Macbooks are out, and they are very nice machines. We talk with Michael Roy about the current status of Fusion running on these new M1 machines.
Holiday fun with 12 days of Kubernetes activities to get you setup for 2022 and all things vSphere and Kubernetes. With learning and setting up your home lab with the free Tanzu community edition!
A while ago Robin Stolpe (Twitter) asked me if it was possible to find what machines a user is assigned to in a Horizon environment. To answer this I first started messing with the soap api’s and had a really hard time to filter for the user id with the various machine related queries. When looking for the assignedUser property this was no problem but this has been deprecated and replaced by assignedUsers because of the added functionality for assigning multiple users to a machine. Instead of becoming too frustrated I decided to switch paths and user Powershell with the rest api’s.
I have been trying out the Azure VMware Solution (AVS) on the VMware HOL and going through the techzone documentation. In this post, we shall take a look into these topics:
Mindmap – Steps for AVS Deployment and Networking Quick Start Links Optional – Deploy AVS via Azure Resource Manager Templates
Blogger Nliyi Osibeluwo joins the show to talk about his blog "Just My Musings" and covers a few of his short blogs on VMC on AWS VMworld sessions and advantages on vSphere in the Cloud.
Enable pod networking and enforce network policies for Kubernetes cluster. Antrea is a Kubernetes-native project that implements the Container Network Interface (CNI) and Kubernetes NetworkPolicy thereby providing network connectivity and security for pod workloads. Antrea extends the benefit of programmable networks from Open vSwitch (OVS) to Kubernetes.
We interview Bob Plankers and Muneyb Minhazuddin, top VMworld session presenters on their topic and experiences preparing for VMworld 2021. Bob talks vSphere Security and best practices. Muneyb talks about the industry shift to Edge cloud offerings !
Join Eric and Matt as they discuss today's announcement, Kit Colbert announced as new CTO at VMware. We review Kit's popular appearances on the Podcast and cover what skills he brings to VMware leadership.
Learn what the VMware HOL team is building for VMworld 2021. Online labs, Instructor Led Sessions and Competition. Spend some time learning what you need to know to get the most out of the VMworld HOL online experience this year.
Listen to Brad Coctor and Sandy Visoso cover the great Security Sessions at VMworld 2021, learn which sessions are best for you to catch!
Mohan Potheri, VCDX#98 has 20 years of IT infrastructure experience talks about the challenges with Multi-Cloud environments. Mohan explains how Tanzu Kubernetes Grid addresses large scale across multi-cloud allowing for automation of multi-cluser operations.
Learn about the latest Cloud Economics Models from Bill Roth, Director of Cloud Economic at VMware, where he gets the amazing opportunity to look at the the details of the economic models of the various cloud platforms. Spend some time listening to Bill and getting to know the community perspective.
Adam Mathews explains what you need to do to make MacOS 12 Beta run in Fusion. If you are part of the Apples developer program, you can get early access to MacOS 12, then run it in Fusion. The community identified 4-5 tweaks that are needed to support the early beta release. Listen to the show and learn what you will need.
Learn about VMware's vSphere Mobile Client, Siva will cover things like:
What interesting problems did you solve when developing the mobile client?, How is the mobile app different from vSphere Web Client, How could our customers reach out to help improve the app, and finally, what’s next
Learn how to setup your own home lap with @vmwarensxcloud, who takes you through his 10 part blog series showing you the the key elements to setup your home lab. Part 8 covers vCenter setup!
Audio should record properly this week, fixed recording issue with StreamYard and TalkShoe!
We cover the major bullets of the Modern Networking event coming up next November 16th. Register at VMware.com
Better together: #vSphere 7 and #Horizon 7.12 with #Nvidia vGPUs in high end #vdi environments. A real-world use case with Fabian Lenz.
Were going to send time covering core features, since everyone is talking about Kubernetes, we thought we would spend time talking about the core new features, like performance, scalability and more!
This is the coolest stuff since I've been doing podcasting, were going to do a livestream showing some of this tech, I got a demo and was blown away. My Christmas present this year, no question, if your interested in participating hit me at @ericnipro. This is worth sharing, super cool.
Article: vRealize Lifecycle Manager Puts a SysAdmin Out of Work Article: How to hide the speculative-execution control mechanism for VMs running on Intel Haswell and Broadwell processors ?
Link to blog: Is the HTML5-based vSphere Client Ready to Replace the vSphere Web client?
On this episode we finally get a chance to dive into the new features and capabilities in vRealize Automation 7 with Kim Delgado and Jon Schulman. We also chat about what they have cooked up in the new HOL-SDC-1633 lab - What's New in vRealize Automation 7 - that will launch at the April 19th vForum - be sure to check in out. Follow Kim on Twitter as @KCDAutomate. Follow Jon on Twitter as @vaficionado or on vaficionado.com. Follow Ryan on Twitter as @tenthirtyam.
We talk about new host client in vSphere 6.0 U2 with the folks that made it happen all the way from concept through fling to a general release - Etienne Le Sueur, Will Pen and Jehad Affoneh. Follow Ryan on Twitter as @tenthirtyam Follow Etienne on Twitter as @elesueur Follow Jehad on Twitter as @jaffoneh Will is an old fogey and doesn't do Twitter but find him on the vSphere Host Client Community at https://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/vsphere/hostclient/.
"Things are Not Unblowupable" We talk about What's New in Site Recovery Manager 6.1 with GS Khalsa, Technical Marketing at VMware. Follow Ryan on Twitter as @tenthirtyam Follow GS on Twitter as @gurusimran Read Blogs by GS at https://blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/products/site-recovery-manager/ VMware Site Recovery Manager Community: https://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/vcenter/srm
It's October 21, 2015 and we still don't have Hoverboards. But, we are joined by Mike Laverick (@mike_laverick), Integration Architect at VMware to chat about EVO:RAIL.
Recorded "Coffee House Style" on 14 October 2015 at VMworld Europe with Bill Amirault, Product Line Marketing Manager.
Recorded on 12 October 2015 at VMworld Europe with Steve Flanders (@smflanders), Consulting Architect and Manager, with VMware R&D for vRealize Log Insight.
Host: Eric Nielsen Co-Host: Ryan Johnson @tenthirtyam Guest: Ken Werneburg, Technical Marketing, Storage and Availability @vmKen