Bob and Eric are at VMug Connect in Minneapolis talking about the event and VMware{code} lab which was running LLMs on ESXi with GPU, the good, bad and the ugly when running models locally.

Bob uses AI tools with Agentic capabilities and talks about how the IT administrator tasks can be automated and managed. By using AI to automate via Powershell or buy using tools such as Open Claw directly.

Tony Foster attended NVIDIA GTC, Eric and Tony talk about what's happening with 7 new chip sets and 5 rack based solutions.

Explore 2026 for Vegas and On Tour Call for papers is life, now until April 26th, get your papers submitted. Lorrie takes us thought the process, whats new and strategies to write a good submission. Bob and Eric also talk about VMUG Connect Amsterdam over 560 attendees live this week!

Yves Sandfort from ComDivision is in Palo Alto and joins Eric and Bob to talk about what's new in the world of VMUG, the Community, Connects and risks for Cloud vs on-prem with VCF.

Eric Sloof joins us to cover the introduction and name change the VCDX program from VMware Certified Design Expert to "Distinguished" Expert. We discuss the history and whats new, training and when you might be ready to tackle this certification.

Thomas has written a python script available on his github.com account that you can run against any vSphere server to check hardware compatibility. It uses API's from the VCF Operations which has the current compatibility matrix in it's grasp. It now also can tell you future compatibility risks. A cool small powerful bit of Code. Thomas joins Bob and Eric and Tony to talk about it and other side topics on Compatibility.

Guest Ryan Johnson talks about automation and his open source plugin project that enables Packer in VCF environments. Learn what Ryan does in his open source project including the packer examples directory on github

Just a brief podcast that talks about the VMware{code} labs at connect and the GPU's we ordered for the MInisform systems. Running Private AI. Technical difficulties made this a short podcast.

Puneet Sharma is working in the field with Enterprise customers deploying VCF 9 enabling Tiered Memory. He takes us through what to consider and the configuration steps. His 3 part blog article covers a lot of the considerations and commands needed for configuration.