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.
Eric and Bob cover Raspberry Pi, Hackathon and the ARM Powershell prizes for Explore
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.
Everything you need to know about the Native Key Provider for Windows Key management
Bob and Eric discuss Network Observability with VMware tools.
Eric and Bob talk about VMUG Connect in St Louis
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 Foundation The 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...
Join Eric Nielsen and Bob Plankers on the VMware Community Podcast as they talk with Varghese Philipose
Kicking of the 2025 Community Event Schedule and ways to participate with Julia Klaus
Marc Talks about his favorite new feature Memory Tiering now in tech preview.
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.
