Virtually Speaking Podcast
The Virtually Speaking Podcast is a weekly technical podcast dedicated to discussing VMware topics related to private and hybrid cloud. Each week Pete Flecha and John Nicholson bring in various subject matter experts from VMware, recently acquired by Broadcom, and within the industry to discuss their respective areas of expertise.
Episodes
Episodes
Friday Nov 10, 2023
vVols updates in vSphere 8 Update 2
Friday Nov 10, 2023
Friday Nov 10, 2023
vSphere 8 Update 2 introduces several significant announcements to vVols such as new VASA specs, better performance and resilience, enhanced certificate management, and support for NVMeoF. On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John welcome Jason Massae and Sudhir Balasubramanian to discuss the details of this release.
Friday Nov 10, 2023
Top 5 vSAN Questions at Explore Barcelona
Friday Nov 10, 2023
Friday Nov 10, 2023
Pete Koehler is a Staff Technical Marketing Architect at VMware with a primary focus on vSAN. In addition to being our resident expert on Virtually Speaking, Pete spends his time creating technical vSAN content such as design and sizing, operations, performance, troubleshooting and integration with other products and platforms.
On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete (Flecha) and John welcome Pete (Koehler) to share the top 5 vSAN questions he's heard from customers about vSAN this week at VMware Explore Barcelona.
Friday Nov 10, 2023
Switching from vSAN OSA to ESA
Friday Nov 10, 2023
Friday Nov 10, 2023
The vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA) is an optional, alternative architecture in VMware vSAN 8 that’s designed to achieve all-new levels of efficiency, scalability and performance. It features a single-tier architecture optimized for high-performance NVMe-based TLC flash devices for both on-premises environments and hyperscale public clouds. Johannes Weidacher, an IT Specialist for Storage and Datacenter Virtualization is one of the many vSAN customers who recently discovered the performance, capacity and security improvements of vSAN ESA.
On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast, Pete and John speak to Johannes about his recent experience moving from vSAN OSA to ESA.
Friday Nov 10, 2023
VMware Explore Barcelona Day 0
Friday Nov 10, 2023
Friday Nov 10, 2023
On this kick off episode of our VMware Explore Barcelona coverage, Pete and John discuss the event, sessions and activities planned for the week.
Friday Nov 03, 2023
VMware Explore Barcelona Preview Edition
Friday Nov 03, 2023
Friday Nov 03, 2023
VMware Explore is VMware's flagship event for all things multi-cloud and the most anticipated event in the virtualization and cloud computing industry. This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John preview Explore Barcelona and give a sneak peek into some of the content you can expect to see in the coming days. Read more
Friday Sep 29, 2023
VMware Explore 2023: Homelab Edition
Friday Sep 29, 2023
Friday Sep 29, 2023
On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John welcome Matt Mancini to discuss a Homelab project he orchestrated, putting dozens of Intel Optane drives in the hands of the VMware vExpert Community to use in their home labs.
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Tuesday Sep 19, 2023
Announcing vSphere 8 Update 2
Tuesday Sep 19, 2023
Tuesday Sep 19, 2023
Last month at VMware Explore Las Vegas, VMware announced the latest updates to vSphere 8. This includes not only Version 8 Update 2 of VMware's enterprise workload platform, but also includes a new cloud service to which users of vSphere+ will soon have access. These updates will help enhance the operational efficiencies of IT admins, supercharge the performance of demanding workloads, and accelerate the pace of innovation for DevOps engineers, developers, and anyone else that can benefit from self-service access to infrastructure services.
On this episode of The Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John welcome vSphere Senior Technical Marketing Architect, Féidhlim O'Leary to walk through the details of this release. Read more
Friday Sep 08, 2023
Azure VMware Solution and Pure Storage
Friday Sep 08, 2023
Friday Sep 08, 2023
For more than a decade, Pure Storage has been a VMware Technology Alliance Partner, collaborating with VMware to help customers realize the greatest value from their virtual infrastructure and underlying hardware.
This year at VMware Explore Las Vegas, Pure Storage is introducing Azure VMware Solution Powered by Pure Cloud Block Store. Cloud Block Store is a software-only block storage offering in the public cloud. It combines enterprise-grade data services from Purity Operating Environment with Azure storage. On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John speak to Pure Storage Sr. Director of Product Management, Cody Hosterman about this new announcement, vVols, and much more.
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