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#775 - Platform Engineering 2.​0 w/​Pakaj Gupta

Pakaj takes us through where DevOps has been and where it's going and the glass ceiling that requires a new way of thinking. Bob, Tony and Eric chat with Pankaj to get inside his brain.

#772 - VMUG Virtual Event June 25th w/​Brad Tompkins

Brad Tompkins talks about learnings from the community around VMUG connects and 9.1 sessions and topics. He covers the Virtual Event which is coming up on June 25th, with loads fo great sessions. He also covers the value of the community in the age of AI.

#771 - Upgrade 9.​x to 9.​1 w/​Tarsio Moraes

Tariso takes us through his 3 part blob on upgrading 9.0 to 9.1, a significant project with a UI tool to help you through the planning process. He has upgraded and then takes us through whats easy and what needs advanced planning.

#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 factors while building modern application IT strategies.

#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 own LLM for fun. Data Center is back and workloads growth and of course Memorial Day BBQ report.

#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 setup and how he manages it and his tools.

#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 another Vegas Experience. VMUG Connect in Toronto and Dallas.

# 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 directly.

#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 submission. Bob and Eric also talk about VMUG Connect Amsterdam over 560 attendees live this week!

#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 the current compatibility matrix in it's grasp. It now also can tell you future compatibility risks. A cool small powerful bit of Code. Thomas joins Bob and Eric and Tony to talk about it and other side topics on Compatibility.

#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.

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