VMware Communities Roundtable

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

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.

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.

Piotr talks about Virtualization Virtuoso. NOt your typical chatbot, "it's a technical powerhouse designed for VMware professionals familiar with industry jargon and technical terminology.

It's easy to jump onto a existing tech community, it's challenging to build a new community. Tommy Berry is joining us to talk about the challenges and success for strategies when building a new community. Tommy went to Couchbase and won Marketer of the year while building a new community and brand presence !

The VMware Rewards Program will continue under Broadcom and expand to all Broadcom Divisions. Another great example of how Broadcom "gets" community.

Learn from Bryan on how WatsonX is used and the integrations with VCf

VMUG 2024 Kicksoff with UserCons and chapter meetings, Broadcom is 100% funding the VMware commitments in 2024 as is the VMware Division leaders. Brad and Molly discuss this years outlook for activities and challenges the IT practioners might face with VCF licensing and new partner models.

We have recruited Franky Barragan (SE and Engineer) to focus on VMware{code} as a key community. Franky comes on to talk about his 2024 plans for the {code} community. Sample Exchange, PowerShell sessions, VMUG integration and more!

Join Eric, Corey as they provide updates on vExpert 2024, and then interview Michael Roy as he talks about the new release of Fusion and Workstation. As always they will discuss the latest with Apple's M series laptop and Windows on ARM.

Eric shares the news, what's going on in 2024 with the new VMware by Broadcom, he shares inside views and what the 2024 community plan looks like!

Franky reviews his blog article that covers the 12 days holiday task list for setting up and modernizing you home lab. Have you seen Mark H vcdx181's environment, day 9 covers his high availability home lab

Topic: Interview with Yevs Sanford & Sascha from Comdivision Lets get a outside perspective with Guests:Yeves Sanford CEO Comdivision & Sascha Schwunk (title) Comdivision Host: Eric Nielsen & Matt Langguth Co-Host: Matt Langguth

Popular Blogger Piotr Tarnawski talks about his blog on the Abyss Locker Ransomeware with Corey and Matt