In this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast, Pete and John sat down with Chen Wei, the creator of HCIBench, from VMware by Broadcom. HCIBench streamlines HCI benchmarking, simplifying a once-complex process. Chen Wei shared HCIBench's journey, emphasizing its user-friendly interface, which caters to both novices and experts. We explored its technical architecture and discussed key metrics like throughput and latency crucial for assessing HCI performance accurately. Our conversation also touched on HCIBench's collaborative development model, driven by user feedback and community contribut ..read more

There are two new tools to help understand and calculate the required subscription capacity for the new VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) offerings, which are licensed based on physical CPU Cores for compute and total raw physical storage (TiBs) for vSAN. On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John welcome William Lam to discuss the details of these new scripts and how demonstrates with a live demo.  Links Mentioned  WilliamLam.com VMware KB 95927 - Counting Cores for VMware Cloud Foundation and vSphere Foundation and TiBs for vSAN ..read more

The Virtually Speaking Podcast is venturing into the world of live streaming. On this mini episode, Pete and John discuss the new Apple Vision Pro and promote our upcoming Live Stream with William Lam this Friday at 1:00 EST. Enjoy ..read more

On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John welcome Glenn Sizemore to share the details of VMC on AWS SDDC Version 1.24 ..read more

With VMware Cloud, customers can choose the best cloud environment for their ever-evolving business and application needs because VMware’s multi-cloud architecture is extensible to a broad range of cloud endpoints. Case in point, Equinix Metal in prime metro locations around the world! This year at Explore Las Vegas 2023, VMware announced that VMware Cloud on Equinix Metal (VMCE) is available as an Early Access Release. Watch the video of this episode Watch all VMware Explore Recap episodes ..read more

Most ransomware attacks now employ fileless techniques that cannot be detected by scanning idle backups, posing a major threat to organizations. VMware Ransomware Recovery is an award-winning VMware Cloud service available today designed to recover from fileless attacks using behavioral analysis of powered-on VMs in cloud-based isolated recovery environments (IREs). On this episode of The Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John speak with Belu De Arbelaiz and Yoomi Hong of VMware Product Marketing, to get all the updates for VCDR and VMware Ransomeware Recovery. Watch the video of this episod ..read more

On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John speak to VP of Product Marketing, Prashanth Shenoy about evolution of VMware Cloud and uses cases like Ransomware Recovery. Watch all VMware Explore Recap episodes ..read more

VMware Data Services Manager is a software solution that provides the same convenience as a public cloud-based DBaaS platform, but it is installed and managed on-premises eliminating the challenges of building a custom on-premises DBaaS platform. It helps enterprise IT team stays in control, automate day 2 operations to free up valuable DBA time and provide App developers with the agility they need. On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast. Michael Gandy and Christos Karamanolis share the details on how VMware is helping customers to implement a DBaaS on vSphere and how it fits into t ..read more

You've no doubt heard about VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), VMware's full-stack SDDC solution for implementing a modern private cloud. With the VCF Holodeck Toolkit toolkit, customers can quickly get fully functional nested VCF lab up and running and start getting hands-on with all aspects of the VMware Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC). Watch the video of this episode Watch all VMware Explore Recap episodes ..read more

This week VMware announced the latest release of VMware Data Services Manager (DSM), version 2.0. DSM enables the provisioning of data services (e.g., databases, object stores) on vSphere infrastructure. This release builds on earlier versions of VMware Data Services Manager 1.x, but also extends the product. On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast Cormac Hogan shares the details of this new release ..read more