Best Home Datacenters Podcasts (2025)

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#749 - Vitrual Private Cloud cababilities in VCF 9 with Stephen Debarros

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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.By vmware

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#748 - VMUG Advantage Support for vSphere 9 Release 12/8 w/Bob, Eric & Corey

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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.By vmware

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Local AI GPUs, RAM, AGI Predictions on Open Source AI 13:47

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Local Ai has gotten more and more challenging to run over the past year so lets talk about this trend, what is going on with GPUs and RAM and the impacts it has on what is likely the next LLM releases. I talk about the impact of Open models and closed models and how the talk of AGI may soon backfire. Support the show…

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#747 - NetApp Ransomware & VCF9 Ontap with Chance Bingen and Mike Foley

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Community Advocates from NetApp join the podcast to discuss the new features that look data manipulation in realtime to stop Ransomware attacks years before it happens. Chane Bingen and Mike Foley discuss NetApp's feature and how they support VCF 9 as a key partner.By vmware

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#746 - Home Lab Licensing with Daniel Keer

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Daniel Keer cover his blog article about getting his home lab licenses VCF 5.X after passing the his VCF VCP certification. There are a few places that people get stuck at, and Daniel explains the work arounds to get through the process. Eric talks about the VCF 9.x tokens which will go live at the end of the month.…

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#745 - NSX Cluster Outage with Eric Sloof

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Eric Sloof discusses his blog article on NSX Cluster Manager 2 of 3 node outage and how to recover when this happens. He also talks about his upcoming VCP-architecture exam prep for Explore on Tour Germany event!By vmware

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#744 - Explore on Tour, Miniforum Rack and Advantage VCF 9 date.

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Bob, Eric and Corey talk about the Explore on Tour momentum and how to rack you miniforums and why! Advantage VCF9 support coming Mid November. Tony Foster joins the podcast and talks AI models you can run on your home NVIDA card with RAG !By vmware

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#743 - Why become a VMware Community Advocate with Noell Grier

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Noell talks about the activity on advocacy.broadcom.com and why people should be still talking about VMware Tech, it's cool, challenging and rewarding.By vmware

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#742 - MiniForum M2 with NVIDIA RT 4000 GPU w/Bob Plankers and Eric NIelsen

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Bob and Eric discuss the availability of the 1300.00 RT4000 with 20 Gig of memory and using it in the MiniForum to run AI models.By vmware

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AMD + OpenAI 6GW Project Stargate Deal Analysis 13:17

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#741 - Private aI in the DataCenter with Rajesh Kadam CEO PipeIQ

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#740 - VCF 9 Adoption in Europe w/Yves Sanfort

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Comdivision CEO Yves Sanfort comes to Palo Alto to work with VCF teams and talks about customer adoption across the globe, from Europe, now to America's and also a APJ perspecitve. Yves also covers the AI drivers in the enterprise and moving workloads back to VCF from other Vendors.By vmware

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Will AGI be Open Source or like Open Ai's ChatGPT? 27:19

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Open Source AGI is what we want, but is it what we will get? OpenAI and Gemini cloud services would like a word with your credit card please. Will AGI be Open Source is the question and how could we get there. Digital Spacecast https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLarJAzZsWRGAYn6uDW5a2xeX7aNxmSvs9 5090 32GB https://geni.us/GPU5090 🤖 Budzo the Loc…

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#737 - VMUG at Explore with Brad Tompkins, Getting to know 5000 of your Friends and Peers

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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.By vmware

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#636 - VMware CMTY Podcast #736 - Pi Powered: Multi-Project Hackathon with ARM & PowerShell

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

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#735 - Explore Team Talks Free VCP Certification Testing, Sessions/Tracks and How It's All Made

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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!By vmware

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#734 - VCF 9 Home Lab Setup MS-A2 for VMware{code} Labs

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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…

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#733 - Hands-on Labs at Explore 2025 - What's New and more with Kelly Smith and David Entremont

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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!By vmware

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#732 - AI Workloads and GPU Management with VCF 9 w/Tasha Drew & Justin Murray

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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.By vmware

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#731 - Automation Nobody Prepares You For: What VCF 9, and the new Skyline

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

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#730 - Inside VCF 9: Power CLI Performance, Unified SDK and more w/Angel Petrov and Jatin Purchit

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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.By vmware

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#729 - Explore Content Calendar and more with Maryam Scoble.

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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.By vmware

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#728 - vDefend & Avi Join the VMUG Advantage Lineup

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

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#727 - VCF, Things on their way, and more

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

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#723 - No More External Keys_ Getting Started with vCenter Native Key Provider

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

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#722 - Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

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#721 - What I Wish My Mom Had Told Me About VCF.mp3

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#720 - A Developer_s Journey into Observability and Automation with Garvit Kataria

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#719 - Beyond Monitoring_ How Network Observability Transforms IT Operations

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Bob and Eric discuss Network Observability with VMware tools.By vmware

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#718 - VMUG Connect_ An All-New Event

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Eric and Bob talk about VMUG Connect in St LouisBy vmware

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#728 - vDefend and AVI now part of VMUG advantage w/Lei Wang 57:22

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#727 - Scaling Innovation at FT Lauderdale's Police Department w/Tamecka McKay CIO 43:04

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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.By vmware

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#722 - Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity w/E Kubla 59:35

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#717 - Lessons Learned Install VCF 5.1 in a Nested Envionment w/Marc Crawford 56:00

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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!By vmware

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#716 - Cyber Recovery and Business Continuity w/Tarisio Moraes

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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.By vmware

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#715 - vExpert Aweards 2025, HomeLab Hardware for VCF and VMUG Advantage 59:50

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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/By vmware

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#714 - Cloud Partners Adapt to VCF w/ Girish Manmakar

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#713 - Disaster Recovery for MS SQL Server Workloads in VMware Cloud Foundation w/Deji Akomolafe 1:03:26

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Topic: Disaster Recovery for MS SQL Server Workloads in VMware Cloud FoundationThe 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…

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#712 - Top Super Metrics use cases with Aria Operations w/Eric, Bob and Crew ! 1:01:34

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

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# 711 - Lessons from Battling Ransomware in the Real World with VCF and vDefend

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#710 - Community Events in 2025, VMUG UserCons, VMUG Connect, CTEX & Explore Call for Papers with Julia Klaus 1:05:23

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

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#709 - 12 Days of Holiday Happiness, 12 Lessons to Help Pass VCP-VCF Certification with Franky Barragan 1:02:00

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#708 - Broadcom's VMware Strategy is Winning w/John Furrier and Eric Nielsen . .AWS re-invent news

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#707 - VMUG Advantage Free VCF with Eric Nielsen, Corey Romero and Brad Thompkin 56:49

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#706 - Memory Tiering with Marc Hubbert VCDX 181 in 8. 0u1

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

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#705 - Corey Romero and Eric Nielsen Discuss Community on a Rocketship, it's booming

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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.By vmware

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#704 - EMEA Field Updates w/ Gareth Edwards, Broadcom Solutions Architect

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#703 - Julia Klauss and Eric Nielsen talk about VMTN and other Community Projects 48:11

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

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#702 - Explore Vegas Community Report w/Eric Nielsen 51:23

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