All podcast recording posts
Sean Hicks (@SeanHicks77) presents “VMware Anywhere – VMware on X” What kind of cool stuff can you do when you combine VMware and your favorite public cloud? Resources: https://vmc.vmware.com/ https://www.wwt.com/atc
Frances Wong @frances_wong on twitter shows the study guide she did for the VCP -NV based on NSX-T 2.4. She goes deep into her preparation, resources, material and even taking the test remotely. If you used her guide, let her know! Resources: https://virtually2cents.com/nsx-t-2-4-study-guide-support/ https://www.vmware.com/education-services/certification/vcp-nv-nsxt-2019-exam.html
Bob Plankers (https://twitter.com/plankers) continues our vSphere7 series with a look at new security features and guidance in vSphere 7. Resources: https://twitter.com/vSphereSecurity https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories.html https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Validated-Design/services/introduction-to-security-and-compliance/ https://github.com/vmware/dod-compliance-and-automation
Mike Foley (https://twitter.com/mikefoley) continues our vSphere 7 series with a look at vCenter 7 with Kubernetes. Mike walks through some of the architecture and workflows of administering Kubernetes on vSphere 7. Resources: Mike Foley’s Blogs: https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/author/mike_foley Micheal West’s Blogs: https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/author/michaelwest vSphere 7 Hands-on Labs: https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2020/06/announcing-the-vsphere-7-hands-on-labs.html
sNigel Hickey (https://twitter.com/vCenterNerd) kicks off our vSphere 7 series with a look at vCenter 7 server. Nigel will highlight both improvements to existing features as well as some new goodies! ?Resources:?vSphere 7 blog – http://vmw.re/vsphere7 vSphere Upgrade Center – https://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/upgrade-center.html
Paul Mancuso (https://twitter.com/pmancuso) dives into the how and why of design decisions when deploying VMware NSX over Cisco ACI and other data center fabrics.
Heath Johnson (@heathbarj) presents on an amazing, quick way to spin up your VCF home lab! Resources: For obtaining VLC: http://tiny.cc/getVLC Joining the VLC Support : http://tiny.cc/getVLCSlack
Matt Just @H1_TEK_matt gives an excellent update on What’s new with vRealize Network Insight, both for on-premises and cloud-hosted versions. He spends the majority of the episode showing the platform’s capabilities in a live demo, which is always appreciated. You can read more about Network Insight in the official VMware blog https://blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization/tag/vrealize-network-insight/ and you can
-> Continue reading Episode Followup – What’s new in vRNI with Matt Just
Kevin Tebear (https://twitter.com/ktebear) continues our series on VMware Cloud Foundation with a deeper look at the architecture and some details on new features in version 4.0 Resources: vmware.com/go/cloudfoundation-poster vmware.com/go/vcfhol vmware.com/go/cloudfoundation-community vmware.com/go/cloudfoundation-faq
In this vBrownbag EMEA session, Bilal and Chris will give us an overall view about HCX and it will finish with a live demonstration of a migration.
Britton Johnson (https://twitter.com/vcixnv) continues our series on VMware NSX-T with a quick look at NSX Cloud before diving into the multiple use cases for VMware HCX Resources: https://cloud.vmware.com/vmware-hcx https://labs.hol.vmware.com HOL-2081-01-HBD-VMware HCX – Getting Started with Cross-Cloud Mobility https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=VMware+HCX https://cloud.vmware.com/community/hybrid-cloud-extension/ https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-HCX/index.html https://youtu.be/B0erP-Rrkuo
Heath Johnson (https://twitter.com/heathbarj) gives us an introduction to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), shows a few demos, and gives us a sneak peek of the newest version of VCF 4.0 Resources: vmware.com/go/cloudfoundation-poster vmware.com/go/vcfhol vmware.com/go/cloudfoundation-community vmware.com/go/cloudfoundation-faq
Britton Johnson (https://twitter.com/vcixnv) continues our series on NSX-T Data Center with a look at Security and Distributed Firewall. Britton dives deeper into the security features of the platform and shows us how security rules are evaluated. We also got a peek at vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) #NSX #VMware #Education Resources: https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=nsxt https://labs.hol.vmware.com/ HOL-2026-91-NET – VMware
-> Continue reading Episode Followup – NSX-T Data Center Security and Distributed Firewall with Britton Johnson
A new crop of VMware vExpert PROs were awarded and we had some of them participate in a roundtable talking about what the program is about and how it helps others who aspire to get the vExpert award. Here’s the announcement and their twitter accounts: https://blogs.vmware.com/vexpert/2020/04/07/vexpert-2020-sub-program-awards/ https://twitter.com/vtimd https://twitter.com/MattThatITGuy https://twitter.com/gsxesx https://twitter.com/jhoughes https://twitter.com/arielsanchezmor Blog posts with tips
-> Continue reading Episode Followup – vExpert PRO 2020 Update with Tim Davis, Matt Crape, Matt Langguth, Joe Houghes, Ariel Sanchez
Britton Johnson (https://twitter.com/vcixnv) continues our series on NSX-T Data Center with a look at Routing and Switching. Britton gives us a deeper dive into the logical constructs within NSX-T as well as some topology examples and guidance on design. #NSX #VMware #Education Resources: https://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-37591 https://labs.hol.vmware.com/ HOL-2026-01-NET – VMware NSX-T: Getting Started – Module 3 Logical
-> Continue reading Episode Followup – NSX-T Data Center Routing and Switching with Britton Johnson
Michael, William and PK join us to discuss how VEBA enables event based automation for vSphere. Every VI Admin knows that little toolbar in vCenter Server showing the Tasks and Events happening in their environment. This is commonly used to track progress of an operation and can also be used for auditing purposes. However, did
-> Continue reading Episode Followup – Unlocking the Potential of Events for SDDC Automation presented by Michael Gasch (@ebano1), William Lam (@lamw) and PK (@pkblah)
VMware, VMware Network Virtualization Britton Johnson (https://twitter.com/vcixnv) begins our series on NSX-T with a look at the overall platform and its capabilities as well as resources for exam preparation and general learning. Resources: https://nsx.techzone.vmware.com/ https://www.dpdk.org
Nick Scuola (nscuola) give us a great rundown of tips and habits that technical engineers can utilize to enable themselves to skill up and truly drive their careers Resources: https://spookysolutions.com/2019/10/11/tips-habits-grit-what-successful-engineers-do-to-advance-their-careers/ https://spookysolutions.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/nick-scuola-tips-habits-grit-what-successful-engineers-do-to-advance-their-careers.pptx https://spookysolutions.com/2015/03/17/how-to-be-an-awesome-it-professional/
Chris Noon (@UltTransformer) talks about what motivated him to embark on his VCDX-NV journey. Chris covers both his motivations and high-level tasks he’s had to complete during his journey so far.
Jason McMinn (@vm_jmcminn) will lead a discussion around Azure & AWS, where we’ll cover some basics, pitfalls and the things we didn’t know that we didn’t know about Azure & AWS.