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#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 open source project including the packer examples directory on github

#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 covers a lot of the considerations and commands needed for configuration.

#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 content agenda and how to connect to all the community members.

#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 security, our application products like vDefend and Avi application security and all other topics from learning to getting started.

#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, to AI Models to getting your home lab setup. A fun beginning of the year!

#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 Administration and A/rchitect 2024 certification (previous release of vcp). We are responding to advantage@vmug.com escalations and getting things fixed now that tokens are live.

#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.

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

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

#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 before it happens. Chane Bingen and Mike Foley discuss NetApp's feature and how they support VCF 9 as a key partner.

#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 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.

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

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

#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 VCF 9 makes sense for mature AI workloads.

#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's and also a APJ perspecitve. Yves also covers the AI drivers in the enterprise and moving workloads back to VCF from other Vendors.

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