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Tony Foster attended NVIDIA GTC, Eric and Tony talk about what's happening with 7 new chip sets and 5 rack based solutions.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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 [email protected] escalations and getting things fixed now that tokens are live.

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.

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.

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.