#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.
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#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.
#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 submission. Bob and Eric also talk about VMUG Connect Amsterdam over 560 attendees live this week!
#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.
#758 - 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 you might be ready to tackle this certification.
#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.
#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.