#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

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

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 a...

#722 - Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity w/​E Kubla

#717 - Lessons Learned Install VCF 5.​1 in a Nested Envionment w/​Marc Crawford

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...

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

All the ins and outs for managing your recovery strategy with Tarisio Moraes, knowing failure modes and plans for recovery based on VMware's offering...

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

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 hard...

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

#713 - Disaster Recovery for MS SQL Server Workloads in VMware Cloud Foundation w/​​Deji Akomolafe

Topic: Disaster Recovery for MS SQL Server Workloads in VMware Cloud Foundation


The Importance of a Reliable Disaster Recovery Pla...

#712 - Top Super Metrics use cases with Aria Operations w/​​Eric, Bob and Crew !

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

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

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

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

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

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