Best VMUG Podcasts (2025)

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

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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 as will be publishing support for the Administration and A/rchitect 2024 certification (previous release of vcp). We are responding to [email protected] escalations and getting things fixed now that …

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#109 - An introduction to Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) featuring Yves Hertoghs 49:15

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VMware Cloud Foundation 9 has brought the Virtual Private Cloud networking model front and center in the vSphere UI. Not only has it become extremely easy to provide a self-service solution for networking, it comes with a plethora of networking services and capabilities. Maybe even more importantly, it allows networking-noobs (like myself) to consu…

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#750 - Workload Repatriation w/Gabi Nunes

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Gabi takes us through what enterprises must consider and the tradeoffs between on-prem and off-prem workloads. From Latency, to performance to eco-green considerations. A great podcast on the topic.By vmware

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#108 - My Explore recap: VCF Native S3 Object Storage, Cyber Recovery, and vSAN on FC! 20:42

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I had some trouble scheduling guests the past weeks, and as a result, I figured I would try something new. In this episode I go over the various things I announced at Explore and Explore on Tour in London, Paris, and Frankfurt. I talk about VCF Native S3 Object Storage, the enhancements we are planning for Disaster Recovery as well as Cyber Recover…

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

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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 security aspects of VPC's and how the average admin can now tackle this config.By vmware

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

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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 you need to refresh your license, that's support too. Great show and good community participation.By vmware

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#107 - Why VCF is the best platform for your modern workloads featuring Jad El-Zein! 1:05:46

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Recently, I read this article about why VCF is the best platform for modern workloads, so I figured I would invite the author, Jad El-Zein. Jad and I discuss all the arguments of why VCF and all components are the perfect destination for containers, or I should probably say your modern workloads.

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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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#106 - Why a valued partner like ITQ believes in Broadcom's strategy and the VMware portfolio! 47:12

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Recently, I read a fantastic LinkedIn post by Francisco Perez van der Oord, the founder of ITQ, in which he explained why he believes in Broadcom's strategic direction and the VMware portfolio. It was an interesting read, and for me, a great reason to invite one of our most valued partners in EMEA to the show. I want to thank Francisco for taking t…

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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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#105 - How do I enable vSAN ESA Global Deduplication in 9.0? 16:05

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For this episode I invited our raging reporter on scene Pete Koehler! Pete is going over all the benefits, requirements, and limitations around vSAN ESA Global Deduplication. This feature was released with 9.0.1 and is available per request as discussed in this blog post. If you want to get access make sure to sign up using the form in the blog. Ju…

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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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#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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#104 - Exploring recent Ransomware Recovery and Data Recovery announcements with Jatin Jindal 32:36

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For episode #104 I invited Jatin Jindal to talk us through the recent Ransomware Recovery and Data Recovery announcements. Jatin discusses what the VMware Ransomware Recovery entails, what the differences are between a ransomware recovery process and a disaster recovery scenario, and he talks about various roadmap items like tag-based selection, se…

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

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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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#103 - The performance impact of Memory Tiering featuring Qasim Ali and Todd Muirhead 30:55

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The last few months, I've had many discussions about Memory Tiering. When I saw a brand new performance white paper being released, I knew it was time to invite two of the authors. Qasim Ali and Todd Muirhead go over the ins and outs of Memory Tiering, they discuss the basics, but also explain in-depth what the potential performance impact is when …

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#102 - Explore on Tour featuring Joe Baguley and friends! 23:14

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We just finished Explore in Las Vegas, and the various local Explore On Tour events are literally around the corner. I will most likely be in London, Frankfurt, and potentially Paris myself. It looks like Joe Baguley will also be at all of those events delivering the keynote! Why should you go? Well, listen to the episode to find out. We start out …

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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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#101 - Discussing VCF 9.0 and Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA enhancements with Frank Denneman! 54:16

5M ago54:16

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It was time to get Frank Denneman back on the show to discuss the enhancements introduced in VCF 9 and Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA. Frank goes over all new functionality and all the enhancements like Agent Builder etc. Frank also mentioned various must-attend sessions at Explore. Register now, as these will fill up fast: Chris Wolf, keynote a…

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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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#100 - What is the Google Cloud VMware Engine all about? Featuring Sai Gopalan and Ken Bocchino 35:53

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Episode 100, YESSSS! Finally, we managed to get there. For this episode, I invited two Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) product managers to explain what GCVE is all about. We had Dr. Wade Holmes on the show, 84 episodes ago, to introduce GCVE, so it was time to re-introduce GCVE and discuss the current solution, and the benefits it brings with for…

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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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#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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#099 - Introducing vSAN 9.0 featuring Pete Koehler! 34:58

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VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 was recently launched, and that means vSAN 9.0 is also available. There's many new features introduced in 9.0, so a perfect time to ask Pete Koehler to join the podcast once again and go over some of these key enhancements. Below you can find the links we discussed during the episode! Blog - Network Traffic Separation Bl…

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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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#098 - VMware Cloud Foundation 5.x in a single box for homelabs featuring William Lam! 32:10

7M ago32:10

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I recently came across an excellent blog by William Lam, which discussed how to set up VMware Cloud Foundation 5.x on a single box for home labs. William created a Github page that goes over the whole process, and provided all the tweaks and scripts needed to get it done. I wanted to discuss this process with William, as I believe many folks in the…

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#097 - Running AI/ML workloads on top of VMware Cloud Foundation featuring Frank Denneman 52:05

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I recently read a blog post on AI/ML performance on top of VCF, and figured it was time to invite Frank Denneman back to the podcast. During the episode we discuss VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA, and Frank also mention Ollama as a great starting point. Disclaimer: The thoughts and opinions shared in this podcast are our own/guest(s), and …

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

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#096 - Crosspost of WSHTF episode featuring me, Duncan Epping! 52:07

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I recently recorded a podcast episode with Johan and Jeffrey for their podcast, When Shit Hits The Fan. It was a fantastic conversation, which I wanted to share with all of you. As such I asked Johan if I could crosspost it. Make sure to subscribe to the WSHTF podcast channel (Apple, Spotify) , as it has some fantastic stories from various fantasti…

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#095 - Event Season Kickoff: NVIDIA GTC, KubeCon, and Dutch VMUG with Johan van Amersfoort 37:22

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⁠For this episode I decided to invite Johan van Amersfoort to discuss with us his experiences at NVIDIA GTC, Kubecon London, and of course the Dutch VMUG. Or should we say, the start of event season? Johan shared countless of updates and videos on LinkedIn, make sure to check those out while you are at it! Disclaimer: The thoughts and opinions shar…

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#094 - Discussing SAP HANA support for vSAN ESA 8.x with Erik Rieger! 45:46

9M ago45:46

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Recently Broadcom announced that vSAN ESA support for SAP HANA was introduced. Erik Rieger is Broadcom's Principal SAP Global Technical Alliance Manager and Architect, and as such I invited him on the show to go over what this actually means, and why this is important for customers! For more details make sure to check: SAP note 3406060 – SAP HANA o…

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#093 - Best practices for Latency Sensitive Workloads featuring Mark A! 36:10

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Recently a new white paper was released on the topic of latency-sensitive workloads. I invited Mark Achtemichuck (X, LinkedIn) to the show to go over the various recommendations and best practices. Mark highlight many important configuration settings, and also recommends everyone to not only read the white paper, but also the vSphere 8 performance …