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#770 - VKS and Modern Applications the Pros of VCF with Matt Langguth
Matt Langguth is back as a TAM and VMware, we have him join to give us an update and discus the enterprise platform choices with Modern Applications. VKS and risk/cost management being one of the key…
#769 - Live Mic with Eric and Tony. vExpert updates, VMUG Connect Dallas, Explore Community Sessions and AI and LLM updates.
Eric talks about: vExpert Updates, Explore Vegas 2026, VMug Connect Dallas, and MIsc Tech Updates. Intel and Pat G strategy doing well, VKS and workloads in the data center. AI and running your…
#768 - Automating ESXi Host Preparation for VCF 9 w/Paul van Dieen
Paul Van Dieen comes on the show to discuss his automation scripts for getting ESX ready for a VCF 9 deployment, Eric is in at VMUG Connect in Toronto.
#767 - Virtual Tooling with Tommy Grot VirtualBytes.io
Tommy Grot talk about his "tools.virtualbytes.io tools, how they work and how he built them by converting anisible scripts with AI. Tony Foster and Eric spend time talking about Tommy's basement…
#766 - Explore Registration Opens, Session Voting, Hackathon and more
Tony Foster and Eric discuss Explore costs and ways to get to the show by self funding. Lots of community sessions this year, as well as the AI Hackathon. Good learnings and excitement builds for…
# 764 - VMUG. Connect Live and VMware {code} AI Lab with LLMA3 model
Bob and Eric are at VMug Connect in Minneapolis talking about the event and VMware{code} lab which was running LLMs on ESXi with GPU, the good, bad and the ugly when running models locally.
# 765 - AI Administration with Agentic Tools with Bob Plankers
Bob uses AI tools with Agentic capabilities and talks about how the IT administrator tasks can be automated and managed. By using AI to automate via Powershell or buy using tools such as Open Claw…
#763 - NVIDIA GTC and VMUG Connect Conference Wrap-ups with Tony Foster
Tony Foster attended NVIDIA GTC, Eric and Tony talk about what's happening with 7 new chip sets and 5 rack based solutions.
#762 - Explore Call for Papers with Lorrie Noll
Explore 2026 for Vegas and On Tour Call for papers is life, now until April 26th, get your papers submitted. Lorrie takes us thought the process, whats new and strategies to write a good…
#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 for Cloud vs on-prem with VCF.
#760 - 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 discuss the history and whats new, training and when…
#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. It uses API's from the VCF Operations which has…
#758 - HashiCorp Packer Plugins for VMware with 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 open source project including the packer examples…
#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. Technical difficulties made this a short podcast.
#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 configuration steps. His 3 part blog article…
#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. Brad talks about all the exciting three day…
#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 information to then compete against you. The layers of…
#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 tasks to get started with Private AI, from GPU,…
#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 as will be publishing support for the…
#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-green considerations. A great podcast on the topic.
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