⁠For this episode I decided to invite Johan van Amersfoort to discuss with us his experiences at NVIDIA GTC, Kubecon London, and of course the Dutch VMUG. Or should we say, the start of event season? Johan shared countless of updates and videos on LinkedIn, make sure to check those out while you are at it!

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Recently Broadcom announced that vSAN ESA support for SAP HANA was introduced. Erik Rieger is Broadcom's Principal SAP Global Technical Alliance Manager and Architect, and as such I invited him on the show to go over what this actually means, and why this is important for customers!

For more details make sure to check:

SAP note 3406060 – SAP HANA on VMware vSphere 8 and vSAN 8 for details.

SAP HANA and VMware support pages

SAP HANA on HCI powered by vSAN

vSphere and SAP HANA best practices

Disclaimer: The thoughts and opinions shared in this podcast are our own/guest(s), and not necessarily those of Broadcom, VMware by Broadcom, or SAP.

Recently a new white paper was released on the topic of latency-sensitive workloads. I invited Mark Achtemichuck (X, LinkedIn) to the show to go over the various recommendations and best practices. Mark highlight many important configuration settings, and also recommends everyone to not only read the white paper, but also the vSphere 8 performance documentation. Also, his VMware Explore session comes highly recommended, make sure to watch it!

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Recently VMware Data Services Manager 2.2 was released, so I had to invite my good friend Cormac Hogan to discuss all the enhancements we introduced to an already great product. Of course, we also discussed the Tech Preview for the Object Storage Service, which enables you to deploy MinIO at scale!

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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

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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.

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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

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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!

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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:

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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)

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