#761 - VCF Best Practices Adoption Update and VMUG Connect with Yves Sandfort

Yves Sandfort from ComDivision is in Palo Alto and joins Eric and Bob to talk about what's new in the world of VMUG, the Community, Connects and risks...

#758 - Introducing the new VMware Certified Distinguished Expert (VCDX) with Eric Sloof

Eric Sloof joins us to cover the introduction and name change the VCDX program from VMware Certified Design Expert to "Distinguished" Expert. We discu...

#759 - Compatibility Matrix Checking Programatically w/​Thomas Rodriques

Thomas has written a python script available on his github.com account that you can run against any vSphere server to check hardware compatibility. I...

#756 - Packer Plugin Support and Hitachi Acquisition by IBM w/​Ryan Johnson

Guest Ryan Johnson talks about automation and his open source plugin project that enables Packer in VCF environments. Learn what Ryan does in his ope...

#755 - VMware{code} labs with Minisform and GPU

Just a brief podcast that talks about the VMware{code} labs at connect and the GPU's we ordered for the MInisform systems. Running Private AI. Techn...

#757 - Tiered Memory Blog Series with Puneet Sharma

Puneet Sharma is working in the field with Enterprise customers deploying VCF 9 enabling Tiered Memory. He takes us through what to consider and the...

#754 - VMUG Connect Deep dive with Brad Tompkins

VMUG Connect's are now in full swing with Day 0, Day1 and Day 2 agendas for Amsterdam, Minneapolis, Toronto, Dallas & Orlando for thew 2026 season. Br...

#753 - Security, Encryption and other Secrets with Waldemar Pera

Talking about the new Brickstorm security risk where you don't even know you have been compromised. They are stealing your critical industry informati...

#752 - 12 days of Christmas AI Fun with Corey and Bob

Welcome to 2026, the year of Private AI, VCF 9 and all things Data Center. Today Eric and Corey discuss the VMware{code} blog that covers 12 learning...

#751 - VMUG Advantage Portal Bug Review with Bob and Corey

The VMUG home lab portal has been live for 2 weeks now, we are tracking 5 bugs. We now have resolution for the download "come back later bug" as well...

#750 - Workload Repatriation w/​Gabi Nunes

Gabi takes us through what enterprises must consider and the tradeoffs between on-prem and off-prem workloads. From Latency, to performance to eco-gre...

#749 - Vitrual Private Cloud cababilities in VCF 9 with Stephen Debarros

Stephen is a VMware trainer who teaches classes on NSX and now has been leaving VCF networking. Eric and Stephen talk about
the setup and secu...

#748 - VMUG Advantage Support for vSphere 9 Release 12/​8 w/​Bob, Eric & Corey

The new VMUG Advantage VCP portal is going live over the next two weeks. Eric, Bob and Corey discuss the release and how to get your VCF 9 tokens. If...

#747 - NetApp Ransomware & VCF9 Ontap with Chance Bingen and Mike Foley

Community Advocates from NetApp join the podcast to discuss the new features that look data manipulation in realtime to stop Ransomware attacks years...

#746 - Home Lab Licensing with Daniel Keer

Daniel Keer cover his blog article about getting his home lab licenses VCF 5.X after passing the his VCF VCP certification. There are a few places th...

#745 - NSX Cluster Outage with Eric Sloof

Eric Sloof discusses his blog article on NSX Cluster Manager 2 of 3 node outage and how to recover when this happens. He also talks about his upcomin...

#744 - Explore on Tour, Miniforum Rack and Advantage VCF 9 date.

Bob, Eric and Corey talk about the Explore on Tour momentum and how to rack you miniforums and why! Advantage VCF9 support coming Mid November. Tony...

#743 - Why become a VMware Community Advocate with Noell Grier

Noell talks about the activity on advocacy.broadcom.com and why people should be still talking about VMware Tech, it's cool, challenging and rewarding...

#742 - MiniForum M2 with NVIDIA RT 4000 GPU w/​Bob Plankers and Eric NIelsen

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.

#741 - Private aI in the DataCenter with Rajesh Kadam CEO PipeIQ

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...

#740 - VCF 9 Adoption in Europe w/​Yves Sanfort

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...

#737 - VMUG at Explore with Brad Tompkins, Getting to know 5000 of your Friends and Peers

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 fo...

#636 - VMware CMTY Podcast #736 - Pi Powered: Multi-Project Hackathon with ARM & PowerShell

Eric and Bob cover Raspberry Pi, Hackathon and the ARM Powershell prizes for Explore

#735 - Explore Team Talks Free VCP Certification Testing, Sessions/​Tracks and How It's All Made

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 real...

#734 - VCF 9 Home Lab Setup MS-A2 for VMware{code} Labs

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. Th...

#733 - Hands-on Labs at Explore 2025 - What's New and more with Kelly Smith and David Entremont

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...

#732 - AI Workloads and GPU Management with VCF 9 w/​Tasha Drew & Justin Murray

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,...

#731 - Automation Nobody Prepares You For: What VCF 9, and the new Skyline

Discussion with Don Horrox around VCF 9, what he sees as new and the SkyLine Replacement

#730 - Inside VCF 9: Power CLI Performance, Unified SDK and more w/​Angel Petrov and Jatin Purchit

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...

#729 - Explore Content Calendar and more with Maryam Scoble.

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...

#728 - vDefend & Avi Join the VMUG Advantage Lineup

Lei Wang joins Eric and Bob to discuss the inclusion of vDefend and Avi as offerings in the VMUG advantage package.

#727 - VCF, Things on their way, and more

Bob and Eric discuss all things community and the Virtual Event streaming June 24th. So much going on.

#723 - No More External Keys_ Getting Started with vCenter Native Key Provider

Everything you need to know about the Native Key Provider for Windows Key management

#722 - Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

#721 - What I Wish My Mom Had Told Me About VCF.​mp3

#721 - What I Wish My Mom Had Told Me About VCF.​mp3

#720 - A Developer_s Journey into Observability and Automation with Garvit Kataria

#719 - Beyond Monitoring_ How Network Observability Transforms IT Operations

Bob and Eric discuss Network Observability with VMware tools.

#718 - VMUG Connect_ An All-New Event

Eric and Bob talk about VMUG Connect in St Louis

#728 - vDefend and AVI now part of VMUG advantage w/​Lei Wang