The Unexplored Territory Podcast is a bi-weekly show focussing on datacenter and cloud related topics, with a heavy emphasis on VMware/Broadcom products and the VMware ecosystem. The show is hosted by Duncan Epping (author of Yellow-Bricks.com, and the vSphere Clustering and vSAN Deep Dive book series), and each episode will feature an industry-leading expert to dive deep into their area of expertise.
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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.
It has been a while since we discussed edge computing, so I figured I would ask one of our local Solution Architects to join me to share his knowledge and experience. Raymond Lucassen is involved in most of VMware's/Broadcom's larger edge projects, and shares some very interesting insights in this, for many, unexplored area of technology.
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.
En liten tjänst av I'm With Friends. Finns även på engelska.