Day 1 of VMworld was filled with announcements and lots of interaction on the VMworld slack channel. On this vChat episode, Pete and John welcome Duncan Epping to share his thoughts on the announcements, share some session recommendations as well as information on a new project he is working on that you won't want to miss. Read more 

Today VMware announced Skyline Advisor Pro: The next level of proactive intelligence. Skyline Advisor Pro builds on the familiarity of its predecessor, Skyline Advisor, and extends it with deeper insights and accelerated data analysis. Read more

 
This week at VMworld 2021 John and Pete had a chat with Srinath Alapati and Benjamin Gordy from Dell Technologies about VMware Cloud.

VMworld 2021 is upon us. If you haven't already, it's now time to build your schedule. Be sure to make time for the General Sessions, keynotes, hands-on labs, meet the experts, and of course the 1000+ on-demand sessions. This week we welcome Ken Werneburg to share his take on VMworld 2021. Read more

This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John welcome Pete Keohler to unpack the new features and enhancements in vSAN 7 Update 3. Read more 

HCI Mesh is a unique, software-based approach for disaggregation of compute and storage resources. HCI Mesh brings together multiple independent vSAN clusters for a native, cross-cluster architecture that disaggregates resources and enables the utilization of stranded capacity. Simply, vSAN allows one or more vSAN clusters to remotely mount datastores from other vSAN clusters (servers) within vCenter inventory. This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast we welcome David Boone to help unpack this vSAN feature. Read more 

Last month, VMware's board of directors named Raghu Raghuram as its new CEO. Raghu has been with VMware since 2003 overseeing ESX and vSphere and has extensive knowledge about VMware products, innovation, and culture. This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast we welcome the new VMware CEO to discuss his plans to make VMware the leader in multi-cloud computing. Read more

VMware admins use a number of tools to help monitor, manage, and optimize their virtual environments. Recently we surveyed the VMware community to find the 10 most popular VMware admin tools. This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John welcome Duncan Epping and William Lam to walk through the results. Read more.