This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John welcome VMware's Mike Foley to discuss the process for deploying vSphere with Tanzu. Read more
 

This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast, Pete and John welcome William Lam to discuss Application Transformer for VMware Tanzu, a new tool that aids organizations in discovering application types, visualizing application topology, choosing a modernization approach based on scores, and containerizing and migrating suitable legacy applications to enhance business outcomes. Read more

This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast we welcome Glenn Sizemore to look at the enterprise software business model and the benefits of SaaS. Read more 

On this episode of Virtually Speaking, Pete and John welcome security expert Bob Plankers to discuss Log4j, and everything VMware customers need to know. Read more 

VMware Cloud on Dell EMC is a Local Cloud solution that combines the simplicity and agility of the public cloud with the security and control of on-premises infrastructure, delivered as-a-service and fully managed by VMware. Customers are freed from the burden of managing infrastructure, can accelerate application delivery, and maintain the appropriate control to satisfy stringent data sovereignty, security, cost, and performance requirements. Read more 
 

This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John welcome the Tech Breakfast crew (Aaron Buley, Tyler Gates, and Russ Cantwell) to look back on the 1st 200 episodes and what's in store for the next 200.  Read more

This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast we welcome Jatin Purohit to give us an ESXi System Storage overview and discuss the changes between versions. Enjoy!
Links Mentioned
ESXi System Storage Changes
ESXi System Storage While Upgrading
ESXi System Storage FAQs
ESXi 7 Storage Requirements
ESXi 7 System Storage warnings – VMware KB Article 85615
VMFS-L locker partition corruption
Bootbank cannot be found at path ‘/bootbank’ errors being seen after upgrading to ESXi 7.0 U2
Creating a persistent scratch location for ESXi 7.x/6.x/5.x/4.x
Configure ESXi Dump Collector with ESXCLI
Removal of SD card/USB as a standalone boot device option (KB Article 85685)
https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2021/09/esxi-7-boot-media-consideration-vmware-technical-guidance.html
https://thenicholson.com/is-my-sd-card-is-resilient-enough-for-production-esxi-usage/
The Virtually Speaking Podcast 
The Virtually Speaking Podcast is a technical podcast dedicated to discussing VMware topics related to storage and availability. In each episode, Pete Flecha and John Nicholson bring in various subject matter experts from VMware and within the industry to discuss their respective areas of expertise. If you’re new to the Virtually Speaking Podcast check out all episodes on vSpeakingPodcast.com and follow on Twitter @VirtSpeaking.
 

This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast Kit discusses his VMware journey from intern to CTO and gives us insight into some of the projects piquing his interest. Read more