Recently, I read a fantastic LinkedIn post by Francisco Perez van der Oord, the founder of ITQ, in which he explained why he believes in Broadcom's strategic direction and the VMware portfolio. It was an interesting read, and for me, a great reason to invite one of our most valued partners in EMEA to the show. I want to thank Francisco for taking the time to sit down, as I know he has a crazy schedule.
Enjoy the conversation!
For this episode I invited our raging reporter on scene Pete Koehler! Pete is going over all the benefits, requirements, and limitations around vSAN ESA Global Deduplication. This feature was released with 9.0.1 and is available per request as discussed in this blog post. If you want to get access make sure to sign up using the form in the blog.
Just as a summary, right now vSAN ESA Global Deduplication requires:
There are a few limitations:
For episode #104 I invited Jatin Jindal to talk us through the recent Ransomware Recovery and Data Recovery announcements. Jatin discusses what the VMware Ransomware Recovery entails, what the differences are between a ransomware recovery process and a disaster recovery scenario, and he talks about various roadmap items like tag-based selection, seeding, QLC support, and vSAN Cyber ReadyNodes. Interested in participating in the upcoming Storage, Data Protection, and Data Beta Programs? Sign up now by filling out this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeXBC6_oAnkS8vCFztuLQFHx0qZ5xxJSmxbMkyPBvDFM0lHLg/viewform
Watch Jatin's Explore sessions now:
The last few months, I've had many discussions about Memory Tiering. When I saw a brand new performance white paper being released, I knew it was time to invite two of the authors. Qasim Ali and Todd Muirhead go over the ins and outs of Memory Tiering, they discuss the basics, but also explain in-depth what the potential performance impact is when enabling this feature in your environment. If you'd like to know more, visit the following links!
Disclaimer: The thoughts and opinions shared in this podcast are our own/guest(s), and not necessarily those of Broadcom, or Google.
We just finished Explore in Las Vegas, and the various local Explore On Tour events are literally around the corner. I will most likely be in London, Frankfurt, and potentially Paris myself. It looks like Joe Baguley will also be at all of those events delivering the keynote! Why should you go? Well, listen to the episode to find out. We start out with a brief conversation with Joe, and then have Frank Denneman, Martin Hosken, and Lars Fiechtner joining to provide their insights!
My call to action, if you are planning on attending, register as soon as possible, as London sold out fast, and so did the UK VMUG the day after!
Disclaimer: The thoughts and opinions shared in this podcast are our own/guest(s), and not necessarily those of Broadcom, or Google.
It was time to get Frank Denneman back on the show to discuss the enhancements introduced in VCF 9 and Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA. Frank goes over all new functionality and all the enhancements like Agent Builder etc. Frank also mentioned various must-attend sessions at Explore. Register now, as these will fill up fast:
Disclaimer: The thoughts and opinions shared in this podcast are our own/guest(s), and not necessarily those of Broadcom, or Google.
Episode 100, YESSSS! Finally, we managed to get there. For this episode, I invited two Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) product managers to explain what GCVE is all about. We had Dr. Wade Holmes on the show, 84 episodes ago, to introduce GCVE, so it was time to re-introduce GCVE and discuss the current solution, and the benefits it brings with for instance the flexibility in node types, bring your own licensing, disaster recovery, networking, and much more. Ken and Sai had some interesting stories, so make sure to pay close attention!
Disclaimer: The thoughts and opinions shared in this podcast are our own/guest(s), and not necessarily those of Broadcom, or Google.
VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 was recently launched, and that means vSAN 9.0 is also available. There's many new features introduced in 9.0, so a perfect time to ask Pete Koehler to join the podcast once again and go over some of these key enhancements. Below you can find the links we discussed during the episode!
Disclaimer: The thoughts and opinions shared in this podcast are our own/guest(s), and not necessarily those of Broadcom, VMware by Broadcom, or SAP.
I recently came across an excellent blog by William Lam, which discussed how to set up VMware Cloud Foundation 5.x on a single box for home labs. William created a Github page that goes over the whole process, and provided all the tweaks and scripts needed to get it done. I wanted to discuss this process with William, as I believe many folks in the VMware/Broadcom community will be interested in deploying this at home, or at work, to go through that full VCF experience but without needing a larger lab environment. Thanks William, for a fantastic episode.
Disclaimer: The thoughts and opinions shared in this podcast are our own/guest(s), and not necessarily those of Broadcom, VMware by Broadcom, or SAP.
I recently read a blog post on AI/ML performance on top of VCF, and figured it was time to invite Frank Denneman back to the podcast. During the episode we discuss VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA, and Frank also mention Ollama as a great starting point.
Disclaimer: The thoughts and opinions shared in this podcast are our own/guest(s), and not necessarily those of Broadcom, VMware by Broadcom, or SAP.
I recently recorded a podcast episode with Johan and Jeffrey for their podcast, When Shit Hits The Fan. It was a fantastic conversation, which I wanted to share with all of you. As such I asked Johan if I could crosspost it. Make sure to subscribe to the WSHTF podcast channel (Apple, Spotify) , as it has some fantastic stories from various fantastic guests!
Disclaimer: The thoughts and opinions shared in this podcast are our own/guest(s), and not necessarily those of Broadcom, VMware by Broadcom, or SAP.
For this episode I decided to invite Johan van Amersfoort to discuss with us his experiences at NVIDIA GTC, Kubecon London, and of course the Dutch VMUG. Or should we say, the start of event season? Johan shared countless of updates and videos on LinkedIn, make sure to check those out while you are at it!
Disclaimer: The thoughts and opinions shared in this podcast are our own/guest(s), and not necessarily those of Broadcom, VMware by Broadcom, or SAP.
Recently Broadcom announced that vSAN ESA support for SAP HANA was introduced. Erik Rieger is Broadcom's Principal SAP Global Technical Alliance Manager and Architect, and as such I invited him on the show to go over what this actually means, and why this is important for customers!
For more details make sure to check:
SAP note 3406060 – SAP HANA on VMware vSphere 8 and vSAN 8 for details.
SAP HANA and VMware support pages
SAP HANA on HCI powered by vSAN
vSphere and SAP HANA best practices
Disclaimer: The thoughts and opinions shared in this podcast are our own/guest(s), and not necessarily those of Broadcom, VMware by Broadcom, or SAP.
Recently a new white paper was released on the topic of latency-sensitive workloads. I invited Mark Achtemichuck (X, LinkedIn) to the show to go over the various recommendations and best practices. Mark highlight many important configuration settings, and also recommends everyone to not only read the white paper, but also the vSphere 8 performance documentation. Also, his VMware Explore session comes highly recommended, make sure to watch it!
Disclaimer: The thoughts and opinions shared in this podcast are our own/guest(s), and not necessarily those of Broadcom or VMware by Broadcom.
Recently VMware Data Services Manager 2.2 was released, so I had to invite my good friend Cormac Hogan to discuss all the enhancements we introduced to an already great product. Of course, we also discussed the Tech Preview for the Object Storage Service, which enables you to deploy MinIO at scale!
Disclaimer: The thoughts and opinions shared in this podcast are our own/guest(s), and not necessarily those of Broadcom or VMware by Broadcom.
In episode 091 of the Unexplored Territory Podcast we have Ravi Soundararajan as a guest to discuss all things performance. There's a reason Ravi's name on X is "vCenterPerfGuy". Ravi has been involved in performance troubleshooting and engineering for the longest time, and shares his insights in some of the most recent findings with regards to vSphere Tagging and the API performance. Ravi also discusses vCenter bandwidth requirements and some of the vCenter task limits there are in place. Make sure to listen to this episode from start to finish!
Some papers discussed:
https://www.vmware.com/docs/vcenter80u3-tagging-perf
https://www.vmware.com/docs/robo-vcenter67-perf
https://www.vmware.com/docs/vc6-perf-bp
Disclaimer: The thoughts and opinions shared in this podcast are our own/guest(s), and not necessarily those of Broadcom or VMware by Broadcom.
Some of you have seen these new certifications popping up, VCP-VVF and VCP-VCF. I asked Bart Peeters, who recently took both the Admin exams, as well as the VCF architect exam, to talk us through his experience and some of his insights.
Discussed on the podcast:
VMUG Advantage with free exam voucher details
VCP-VVF Admin experience
VCP-VCF Admin experience
VCP-VCF Architect experience
VCF Course
Exam pricing announcement
Disclaimer: The thoughts and opinions shared in this podcast are our own/guest(s), and not necessarily those of Broadcom or VMware by Broadcom.
Over the last few years stretched environments have been extremely popular amongst vSAN and VMware Cloud Foundation customers. The storage is the easy part, the network is usually where it gets more complex. To discuss the best practices, requirements, and caveats I invited Paudie O'Riordan to the show to share his knowledge and expertise!
Disclaimer: The thoughts and opinions shared in this podcast are our own/guest(s), and not necessarily those of Broadcom or VMware by Broadcom.
For episode 087 of the podcast, I invited Deji Akomolafe to the show to discuss Microsoft on VMware VCF and vSphere. Deji shares his experiences virtualizing and running Microsoft apps on top of VCF and vSphere and discusses some of the best practices and constraints.
Whitepapers and tools discussed in the episode:
Disclaimer: The thoughts and opinions shared in this podcast are our own/guest(s), and not necessarily those of Broadcom or VMware by Broadcom.
In episode 086 of the podcast, we discuss the most recent VCF 9 and vSAN 9 storage and data protection announcements with Pete Koehler. These announcements were made at VMware Explore 2024, and in my opinion, will bring both vSAN and VCF to the next level.
During the discussion, we mentioned the following YouTube videos, which demonstrate the capabilities that are planned for vSAN and VCF 9:
And as promised links to Johan's podcast called "When shit hits the fan" or "In de aap gelogeerd", subscribe now to automatically get the upcoming episodes which will be in English! (Spotify, Apple, Website)
Disclaimer: The thoughts and opinions shared in this podcast are our own/guest(s), and not necessarily those of Broadcom or VMware by Broadcom.
