Best Tech ONTAP Podcasts (2025)

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

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Community Advocates from NetApp join the podcast to discuss the new features that look data manipulation in realtime to stop Ransomware attacks years before it happens. Chane Bingen and Mike Foley discuss NetApp's feature and how they support VCF 9 as a key partner.By vmware

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#746 - Home Lab Licensing with Daniel Keer

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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 that people get stuck at, and Daniel explains the work arounds to get through the process. Eric talks about the VCF 9.x tokens which will go live at the end of the month.…

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#745 - NSX Cluster Outage with Eric Sloof

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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 upcoming VCP-architecture exam prep for Explore on Tour Germany event!By vmware

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

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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 Foster joins the podcast and talks AI models you can run on your home NVIDA card with RAG !By vmware

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

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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.By vmware

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Ep 407 - NetApp StorageGRID 12.0 53:16

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🚀 This week on the Tech ONTAP Podcast: We’re talking all things StorageGRID 12.0 — and this release is a game changer for AI and data-driven workloads.We are joined by Vishnu Vardhan and Morgan Mears to unpack how StorageGRID is evolving into an AI-ready object storage powerhouse.Here’s what’s new in StorageGRID 12.0 👇💾 Bucket Branches – Think Git …

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

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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.By vmware

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

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Ep 406 - AI Powered NetApp Docs 48:43

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🚀 This week on the Tech ONTAP Podcast: NetApp Docs goes AI!We sit down with Aksel Davis, Grant Glass, Jen Kaufman, and Adam Newton to explore how NetApp is transforming documentation—from static PDFs to a living, searchable, AI-powered ecosystem.💡 Topics we cover: • The shift from closed XML systems to GitHub + open standards • How generative AI po…

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

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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.By vmware

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Episode 405 - NVIDIA SuperPod Updates - Fall 2025 46:36

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We’re diving deep into AI at scale with NetApp experts Bobby Oomen and David Arnette. From NVIDIA SuperPod (think AI factories powering massive LLM training) to FlexPod solutions that bring inference into everyday enterprise workloads, we unpack what’s happening at the cutting edge of AI infrastructure.You’ll hear how NetApp and NVIDIA are collabor…

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Episode 404 - DataOps Toolkit 47:35

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Managing large amounts of data can be challenging, especially when you also have to manage the storage system where the data lives. So to make life easier for storage administrators, NetApp offers a data ops toolkit that can offload some of the work associated with storage management. On this Tech ONTAP Podcast episode, we welcome the creator of th…

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

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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.By vmware

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

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

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

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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!By vmware

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

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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…

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

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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!By vmware

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Episode 403 - CPOC! 35:27

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The NetApp Customer Proof of Concept lab is a place where prospective NetApp customers can "kick the tires" on real NetApp hardware, with their own workloads, before purchasing. This try and buy approach is a game changer for anyone looking to move to a new storage platform. This week, the CPOC team tells us all about how they do things in this ina…

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

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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.By vmware

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

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

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

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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.By vmware

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

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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.By vmware

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#728 - vDefend & Avi Join the VMUG Advantage Lineup

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

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

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

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

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

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#722 - Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

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

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

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#719 - Beyond Monitoring_ How Network Observability Transforms IT Operations

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Bob and Eric discuss Network Observability with VMware tools.By vmware

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#718 - VMUG Connect_ An All-New Event

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Eric and Bob talk about VMUG Connect in St LouisBy vmware

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#728 - vDefend and AVI now part of VMUG advantage w/Lei Wang 57:22

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#727 - Scaling Innovation at FT Lauderdale's Police Department w/Tamecka McKay CIO 43:04

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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.By vmware

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#722 - Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity w/E Kubla 59:35

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Episode 402 - NetApp FlexGroup: Advanced Capacity Balancing 22:36

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Did you know there's a way to stripe large files across multiple nodes in a NetApp ONTAP cluster now? NetApp TME John Lantz drops by to drop some knowledge on Advanced Capacity Balancing!By NetApp

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#717 - Lessons Learned Install VCF 5.1 in a Nested Envionment w/Marc Crawford 56:00

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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!By vmware

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#716 - Cyber Recovery and Business Continuity w/Tarisio Moraes

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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.By vmware

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Episode 401 - NetApp ONTAP: FlexCache (Spring 2025) 31:03

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This week, NetApp FlexCache TME drops in to discuss the latest information around the sparse caching feature for NFS and SMB workloads - FlexCache.By NetApp

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#715 - vExpert Aweards 2025, HomeLab Hardware for VCF and VMUG Advantage 59:50

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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/By vmware

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Episode 400 - NetApp Launch Announcements February 2025 41:02

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The NetApp A-Team drops by to chat about the NetApp launch announcements for February 2025. Listen as we cover updates to the ASA platform, new hardware models, BlueXP improvements and more!By NetApp

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#714 - Cloud Partners Adapt to VCF w/ Girish Manmakar

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Episode 399: The T-Systems Health Hybrid Cloud 43:26

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The healthcare industry has long been known for its cautious approach to technology, but the COVID-19 pandemic forced a dramatic shift. In this episode, Scott Charles from T-Systems ([email protected]), and Brian O’Mahony from NetApp ([email protected]), break down how the healthcare sector has evolved in response to the pandemic and the …

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#713 - Disaster Recovery for MS SQL Server Workloads in VMware Cloud Foundation w/Deji Akomolafe 1:03:26

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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…

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#712 - Top Super Metrics use cases with Aria Operations w/Eric, Bob and Crew ! 1:01:34

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Join Eric Nielsen and Bob Plankers on the VMware Community Podcast as they talk with Varghese PhiliposeBy vmware

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# 711 - Lessons from Battling Ransomware in the Real World with VCF and vDefend

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#710 - Community Events in 2025, VMUG UserCons, VMUG Connect, CTEX & Explore Call for Papers with Julia Klaus 1:05:23

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Kicking of the 2025 Community Event Schedule and ways to participate with Julia KlausBy vmware

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#709 - 12 Days of Holiday Happiness, 12 Lessons to Help Pass VCP-VCF Certification with Franky Barragan 1:02:00

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#708 - Broadcom's VMware Strategy is Winning w/John Furrier and Eric Nielsen . .AWS re-invent news

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Episode 398 - NetApp Hardware Announcements Fall 2024 35:51

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This week, the NetApp A-Team joins us to discuss the latest NetApp hardware announcements, including the new A90 platform, as well as some new BlueXP additions!By NetApp

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#707 - VMUG Advantage Free VCF with Eric Nielsen, Corey Romero and Brad Thompkin 56:49

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