VMware Communities Roundtable

Brad Tompkins comes on the show to talk about VMUG at Explore, the Reception, Sessions, Booth and the all important Advantage discount. Also don't forget your VCP certification for your home lab licenses.

Eric and Bob cover Raspberry Pi, Hackathon and the ARM Powershell prizes for Explore

The event team talks about what it's like to build the event this year and what's going to be new and fun in 2025 Vegas. Loads of new things and really targeting the community. Great Show!

Eric and Corey talk about the new MiniForum PC that has 16 cores, 32 threads, 128 gig of memory and 3 SSD's for VSAN, ESX and Tier Memory support. This little guy is a beast that is great for a VCF 9 home lab. It also has an external PCIe Bus to allow you to connect GPU's to run VCF 9 Private AI models. Cool Beans all the way around. These machines will be at the VMware {code} lab at explore. Not too late to get a ticket!

Kelly and David give us a behind the scene look at what it took to do the all new VCF 9 labs that were part of the VCF 9 launch, and what's coming at Explore with more lab content then any one person can take. They also talk about the Odyssey competition that will happen again this year!

Learn why vGPU's are now the new CPU's when it comes to workload balancing and management. Tasha and Drew talk about core VCF 9 AI workloads, models, and much more.

Discussion with Don Horrox around VCF 9, what he sees as new and the SkyLine Replacement

VCF 9 has done a lot of work consolidating all the API's from ESX, VSAN, NSX and more. Angel and Jatin discuss the performance improvement and what it's like to have a common API across all three without breaking compatibility.

Corey, Eric and Bob talk with Maryam Scoble discussing the explore content catalog release on June 17th, whats new and what will be coming. With VCF 9 now launched, there was plenty to talk about. An Exciting week with all the VCF 9 activities.

Lei Wang joins Eric and Bob to discuss the inclusion of vDefend and Avi as offerings in the VMUG advantage package.

Bob and Eric discuss all things community and the Virtual Event streaming June 24th. So much going on.

Everything you need to know about the Native Key Provider for Windows Key management

Bob and Eric discuss Network Observability with VMware tools.

Eric and Bob talk about VMUG Connect in St Louis

Join us and hear the Journey Tamecka took in modernizing to VCF at the FT Lauderdale Police department. Saving money while upgrading to new solution architecture.

Home Lab is back, with Advantage licenses deploying next week, and many people installing VCF on home NUCs, there is plenty of momentum around things to learn and play with ! Marc Crawford talks about his learnings!

All the ins and outs for managing your recovery strategy with Tarisio Moraes, knowing failure modes and plans for recovery based on VMware's offerings.

Eric, Corey and Bob discuss the Launch of the VMUG advantage VCF labs, the Hardware needed and of Course vExperts . If you want to see the hardware SPECs for you NUCs, look here: https://fojta.wordpress.com/2025/02/23/gmktec-k8-plus-vsphere-mini-lab/

Topic: Disaster Recovery for MS SQL Server Workloads in VMware Cloud Foundation The Importance of a Reliable Disaster Recovery Plan "Deji, disaster recovery (DR) planning is often overlooked until an actual disaster occurs. Why is it particularly crucial for MS SQL Server workloads, and what are the most common mistakes enterprises make when it comes to protecting mission-critical databases?" VMware Live Recovery (VLR): Transforming Disaster Recovery in VCF "Let's talk about VMware Live Recovery (VLR)—VMware's solution for disaster recovery within VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). Can you explain what VLR does and how it ensures a reliable, repeatable, and simplified recovery process for enterprise-class SQL Server clusters?" How VLR Simplifies Disaster Recovery for MS SQL Server in VCF "SQL Server clusters are often complex to manage, especially during failover scenarios. How does VLR reduce that complexity and provide a more seamless disaster recovery experience for organizations using VCF?" Configuring VMware Live Recovery for MS SQL Server: Key Considerations "For organizations looking to implement VMware Live Recovery (VLR) for their SQL Server workloads, what are the key steps in configuring and deploying a robust disaster recovery plan? What factors should IT teams keep in mind during setup?" Best Practices for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity "Even with powerful tools like VLR, having a well-designed DR plan is key. What are some of the best practices you recommend to ensure SQL Server workloads can be recovered quickly and efficiently? How can businesses improve their Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO)?" How VMware Cloud Foundation Enhances Disaster Recovery "VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) unifies compute, storage, and networking, providing a seamless infrastructure for workloads. How does VCF enhance disaster recovery capabilities for SQL Server workloads, and how does it integrate with VMware Live Recovery?" Avoiding Common Pitfalls in Disaster Recovery Planning "From your experience, what are the most common pitfalls organizations face when implementing disaster recovery for SQL Server? How can IT teams proactively test and refine their DR strategies before disaster strikes?" 12:55 - 1:00: Closing Comments Final takeaways from Deji. Wrap-Up with the Barbecue Report: Deji shares his favorite barbecue dish or a memorable community BBQ moment.

Join Eric Nielsen and Bob Plankers on the VMware Community Podcast as they talk with Varghese Philipose

Kicking of the 2025 Community Event Schedule and ways to participate with Julia Klaus

Marc Talks about his favorite new feature Memory Tiering now in tech preview.

Community is booming in Q3 and Q4, everyone is back, Explore Europe leadership is overbooked and Hock is visiting UserCons and speaking at community events.

Day 3 projects underway to improve the community experience. New Community Landing Page, New HomeLab License Program, and VMUG support in 2025.

comfivision CEO Yves Sandfort joins us to talk of the customer journey moving from vSphere to the full VCF stack, acceptance and moving forward.

Yves Sanffort Comdivision CEO gives his perspective on progress as customers move to VCF, AI and our Cloud offerings.

Join Eric and Corey where they discuss how to enable Okta for vCenter with Arkadisuz Krowczynski. His blog on the topic can be found at https://iamse.blog/2023/04/25/enable-okta-for-vmware-vcenter-server/

The VMware Events team is joining us to talk about what's new at Explore this year in Vegas. All the great things are happening this year with a better location for Hackathon, Community Party in the

We interview Rutger and Luis covering their trending SDDC Lab Version 6, a blog article that can be found at https://https://rutgerblom.com/2024/01/26/sddc-lab-v6-released/. The SDDC.Lab project is a series of Ansible Playbooks that preform fully automated doployments of nested VMware Software Defined Data Center Environments called pods. Each Pod consists of solutions like vSphere, VSAN, NSX, Tanzu and NSX Advanced Load Balancer, Aria Operations for Logs and VyOS Router.