by Duncan Epping
For me personally, VMware Explore is the event of the year and a very exciting (and stressful) time. I asked Nikki Sherin from the Explore team to talk us through what we can expect at Explore 2026, and I also asked my good friends William Lam, Alan Renouf, and Pete Flecha to explain to us […] The post #124 – VMware Explore 2026, the podcast! appeared first on Yellow Bricks .
For this episode, I invited Iwan Rahabok to talk us through the recent announcement of the 5th edition of the IT Ops Management Guidebook. As I mentioned during this episode, this isn’t just a book, this is a Resource Kit! You can listen to the podcast via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Youtube, or anywhere else you […] The post #123 – Announcing the 5th edition of the IT Ops mgmt guidebook appeared…
Over the last couple of months I’ve been presenting on Memory Tiering at various events, and the same questions and comments keep coming up. Hence, I figured it would make sense to create a considerations and frequently asked questions blog. This will hopefully make it easier for people to find answers to the questions they […] The post Memory Tiering Considerations and frequently asked questions!…
I read a few articles the last couple of months on the topic of VCF Edge by Dhruv Tyagi , and with the 9.1 release there were a couple of interesting posts about Zero Touch Provisioning, so it was time to invite him to the podcast and explore what VCF Edge is all about. Of […] The post #122 – Exploring the world of VCF Edge and Zero Touch Provisioning with Dhruv Tyagi appeared first on Yellow…
The VMware Explore 2026 catalog was just published, so it is time again to make a list of my favorite sessions and speakers at the event. This year the Plenary Session (keynote) is at 16:00 on a Monday, so that is worth adding to you agenda already, as it is a big change from previous […] The post My favorite VMware Explore 2026 sessions! appeared first on Yellow Bricks .
Stop paying the public cloud tax: Native S3 Object Storage for VCF changes everything! As I mentioned this on a recent podcast I did with Rakesh, so I took sometime this week to narrate the demo and here it is. In this demo you will see the VCF Automation UI and how VCF S3 Object […] The post Native VCF S3 Object Storage demo! appeared first on Yellow Bricks .
With VCF 9.1 the name of VMware Live Recovery, or Site Recovery Manager, seems to have changed to VCF Protection and Recovery. In this episode Velina explains how this platform provides administrators the ability to recover workloads from different types of scenarios. Whether you deleted a VM (operational recovery), lost a whole datacenter (disaster recovery), […] The post #121 – Operational,…
I saw a question internally this week about enabling Memory Tiering through the CLI with 9.1 and why that didn’t work as you would expect. I wrote an article about the esxcli commands a while back, so I went through them and then I realized indeed that the article was outdated. I participated in a […] The post Enabling Memory Tiering in VCF/vSphere 9.1 through the CLI! appeared first on Yellow…
VCF Native S3 Object Storage is a major feature that was announced with VCF 9.1. Pete Koehler introduced it in episode 118 and I wanted to explore what it is all about in this episode with Rakesh. Rakesh goes over what was announced with 9.1, what the timelines look like, discusses the use cases for […] The post #120 – Announcing VCF Native S3 Object Storage, featuring Rakesh! appeared first on…
Just recorded a new demo for VCF 9.1 Protection and Recovery, or VMware Live Recovery as it was called previously. In this demo I show the recovery process after a ransomware attack! I just love how easy it is with this platform, and how it includes integration with either Carbon Black or CrowdStrike. The post VCF 9.1 Protection and Recovery demo showing how to recover from a ransomware attack…