In this Episode, the Roundtable tackles the most pressing issues for CSPs today: recent changes to licensing, the latest around VCF 9, Explore Las Vegas ’25, and more! Key updates include the end of support for products, such as vSphere 7, which necessitates that all providers finally migrate from NSX-V to -T. With constant changes, the Roundtable expects this year’s anticipated VMware Explore in Las Vegas to be highly informative and well attended. Watch now for more info and learn how to join ...
Jul 16, 2025•27 min•Season 2024Ep. 43
Released on June 17, VCF 9 demonstrates Broadcom’s vision of a single integrated product. The Roundtable, with their expert-insight, unpack VCF’s benefits to CSPs, technical improvements, and provide tips around the increasing shift to a subscription-based model. With details about the return of Kubernetes and updates to the VCPP – primarily in regard to licensing, this is a packed episode. Watch now to learn more, and be sure to catch the Roundtable at VMware Explore Las Vegas 2025! #Broadcom #...
Jul 07, 2025•33 min•Season 2024Ep. 42
With the release of VCD 10.6.1.1 and the upcoming VMware Explore, CSPs have a lot to be excited for. VCD 10.6.1.1 includes minor fixes to the UI, as well as key changes that bring greater functionality. Additionally, Cloud Director support will be accessible until to October 2027, signaling ongoing updates. Unlike previous years, there is only ONE VMware Explore 2025 (Aug 25–28)! It’s a key opportunity for service providers to learn about VCF and the future of CSP programs. Do not miss out on th...
Jul 01, 2025•17 min•Season 2024Ep. 41
Ep. 54 of the VCD Roundtable explores vDefend Firewall, IDS/IPS, and ATP – focusing on licensing, use cases, and tips for CSPs. Updates to licensing allows overage-based use for vDefend Firewall, removing the need for a three-year commit. The episode highlights vDefend ATP’s value through microsegmentation for tenant workload protection and IDS/IPS for filtering internal traffic across application layers. This is a tech-oriented episode that you do not want to miss. #Broadcom #VMware #vDefend #A...
Jun 04, 2025•28 min•Season 2024Ep. 40
In Episode 53, the Roundtable breaks down Broadcom’s latest updates on product changes, license key limits, pricing adjustments, and more. Highlights include new Cloud Director automation, Tanzu Mission Control’s return in VCF, and Usage Meter 9 with vDefend Firewall support. Plus, listen in for key pricing changes for new data services users and a look at upcoming industry events. Stay informed with comdivision! #VMware #Broadcom #Updates2025
May 30, 2025•25 min•Season 2024Ep. 39
VMware HCX now supports Cloud Director, enabling multiple migration options—including live and OS-assisted migrations. While setup requires extra steps like RabbitMQ, it offers a dedicated UI and lets customers manage migrations independently. Despite some networking limits, it simplifies Day 2 operations for service providers and boosts flexibility for tenants. #VMware #HCX #VCD
May 10, 2025•28 min•Season 2024Ep. 38
How can CSPs navigate the developments of AI and their concern for data privacy? This episode explores how Private AI is way for customers to leverage AI without exposing their data and knowhow to popular AI models and, by proxy, competitors. Additionally, the Roundtable provides insight and tips for how CSPs that are new to AI can position themselves to be ready to offer AI to their customers. As times are changing, it’s easier than ever to fall behind; watch the full episode and register for c...
Apr 18, 2025•26 min•Season 2024Ep. 37
Filmed live from Broadcom’s Corporate Headquarters in Palo Alto, this episode covers key details into Broadcom’s latest news for Partners, insights into download tokens, upcoming industry events – primarily VMware Explore ’25 – and our own personal insights. Crucially, Broadcom now requires partners to choose a single way to market — as a reseller or VCSP — with no option to switch later. Additionally, going forward, download tokens will be the only way to access software binaries (such as updat...
Apr 17, 2025•30 min•Season 2024Ep. 36
VCSPs must be on the current or last major release to remain compliant! Several products face end of support, including NSX-V, vSphere 7, NSX-T 3.1, and older Aria versions. Continuing to rely on these products will lead to compatibility issues that will prohibit future upgrades and migrations. As a plan, the Roundtable recommends starting your upgrades now and coordinating hardware orders around their validation with VCF 9! Act now to avoid disruptions, watch the full Episode now to learn more!...
Mar 26, 2025•28 min•Season 2024Ep. 34
In this episode, the Roundtable reviews and discusses a straightforward approach to automate VMware Cloud Director 10.6 using VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator. Our experts share pro tips on leveraging REST APIs due to its integration with all other products and its ability to reconcile some of the plug-in’s limitations. This episode also addresses best practices for beginners and pros alike, such as leveraging reusable templates or starting with simple – use case driven – to begin your automa...
Mar 18, 2025•31 min•Season 2024Ep. 33
Hardening software is essential for cybersecurity, compliance, and achieving business goals. It involves modifying configurations and monitoring to securing your environment. While Aria Operations offers visibility, reports, and alerts, hardening further ensures your environment is protected per your needs. For CSPs, hardening – crucially – safeguards against customer activities inside virtual machines. Watch to learn more and contact comdivision to enhance your security. #Broadcom #VMware #Oper...
Mar 13, 2025•30 min•Season 2024Ep. 32
Regular health checks are crucial for maintaining a stable infrastructure, preventing disruptions, staying optimized, and ensuring readiness for updates like VCF 5.2 or 9. Manual checks detect issues scripts may miss, improving efficiency and even compliance. Plus, the more often an environment is assessed and documented, the more seamless optimizations and problems can be addressed. Comdivision offers expert evaluations and shares best practices from extensive industry experience. Service provi...
Feb 13, 2025•26 min•Season 2024Ep. 31
Join the Roundtable for the first live episode of 2025. Beginning with what’s confirmed, this episode focuses on their expectations for 2025/26, what CSPs are saying, and the big question: how to prepare for VCF9 and the discontinuation VCD? The Roundtable addresses live questions, what CSPs should do with VCD and NSX-V, future VCF 9 considerations, and other recommendations to ensure that you can make the most out of 2025! #VMware #Broadcom #VCD #VCF9 #2025
Feb 12, 2025•35 min•Season 2024Ep. 30
In this episode, the Roundtable covers all things VCDA – from technical use cases as a disaster recovery tool, a replication appliance, and its cloud-to-cloud functionality, to tips that can increase performance. As we start 2025, the Roundtable also shares insight into discontinuations and end-of-life announcements, such as VCD. To get the full story, watch the full episode now! #VMware #Broadcom #VCDA #VCD #Insights2025
Jan 31, 2025•34 min•Season 2024Ep. 29
This podcast episode explores the VCF stack further with: Operations for Network (formerly vRealize Network Insight), with a focus on service providers, since they may have trouble understanding which exact device is misbehaving or misconfigured for a client. The Roundtable highlights Ops. for Network’s performance monitoring, its ability to troubleshoot virtual and physical infrastructure, grouping VMs to provide a distributed firewall rule set, alerting in the case of crossing bandwidth thresh...
Dec 19, 2024•28 min•Season 2024Ep. 28
Ep. 42 marks 1 year since VMware was acquired by Broadcom. With it, the Roundtable provides their initial reactions, noticeable improvements, and challenges faced. Not without time to adjust, it is clear that Broadcom is committed to achieving its vision, working with partners and the community at large, and providing a more integrated product line. However, as we all navigate the future together, we are here to support you. If you’re experiences are different than ours, or you have more to say,...
Dec 13, 2024•29 min•Season 2024Ep. 27
In Ep. 41, the Roundtable is reporting live at Explore and discussing what is new – primarily with VCD and the future of VCF. Going forward, we can expect advancements in AI that will solve support tickets more efficiently, tools that can validate environments and aid migrations, and a more robust VCF 9 that has fewer restrictions and greater resource management – amongst its already impressive security capabilities. While Broadcom will always be driving innovation and introducing changes, there...
Nov 25, 2024•31 min•Season 2024Ep. 26
In Ep. 40, the Roundtable discusses new features in VCF 5.2.1. Some new features include greater stability, and improved updating mechanisms that minimize disruptions. Amongst other changes, certificate and password management has also been moved from the SDDC manager to the vSphere client – simplifying security. We can expect updates that will retire Cloud Builder and move away from standalone products, and rather prioritize VCF 9. Watch the full podcast now for the complete list of updates and...
Nov 08, 2024•35 min•Season 2024Ep. 25
In Ep. 39 of the vCD Roundtable, our in-house expert, Alain Geenrits, covers Aria Operations and compliance reporting. He highlights Operations’ unique compliance-checking for PCI, ISO, CIS standards, and more. This is a base-level feature within Aria Operations that can alert you about what and how an object is non-compliant in your environment against industry compliance standards. Service providers can additionally use their own compliance certification as a quality label to customers. Watch ...
Oct 23, 2024•32 min•Season 2024Ep. 24
In this episode, the comdivision experts explore how Aria Operations is evolving for cloud service providers. Learn from real customer stories about how Aria Operations improves multi-tenancy billing and chargeback with Aria Operations , and overcomes common industry challenges like security and compliance. 📲 Listen now to gain the insights that will take your cloud strategy to the next level!
Oct 03, 2024•38 min•Season 2024Ep. 23
