Recently Data Services Manager 2.2 was released, so it was time for me to ask my friend Cormac Hogan back on the show to share with us what was introduced. Although it was just a “minor” release, there were some major announcements, of which the S3 Object Storage capabilities are probably what will excite you the most! Make sure to listen to the episode either via the player below or on your favorite podcast app. (Spotify, Apple, etc)
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Unexplored Territory #091 – Discussing performance with Ravi Soundararajan!
This is probably my favorite episode in a long time. Ravi is just such an enthusiastic and charismatic person to talk too, and on top of that he has a deep understanding of everything vSphere/vCenter and performance. If you want to hear more about tagging, vCenter limits, bandwidth for vCenter, then this is the episode to listen to! What a show!
Unexplored Territory Episode 089 – Discussing the VCP-VVF and VCP-VCF certification with Bart Peeters!
I’ve seen many folks asking about how difficult the VCP-VCF and VCF-VVF exams are on X and Reddit, so I figured I would invite someone who has actually taken both exams and was even involved in the creation of various VMware exams in the past, and working on the development of an upcoming exam! The podcast is available on all platforms, and of course can be listened to below as well via the embedded player. You can also find the links of the discussed topics here:
Unexplored Territory Episode 088 – Stretching VMware Cloud Foundation featuring Paudie O’Riordan
The first episode of 2025 features one of my favorite colleagues, Paudie O’Riordan. Paudie works for the same team as I do, and although we’ve both roamed around a lot, somehow we always ended up either in the same team, or in very close proximity. Paudie is a storage guru, and the last years helped many customers with their VCF (or vSAN) proof of concept, and on top of that helped countless customers understand difficult failure scenarios in a stretched environment when things went south. In Episode 088 Paudie discusses the many dos and don’ts! This is an episode you need cannot miss out on!
Unexplored Territory Episode 087 – Microsoft on VMware VCF featuring Deji Akomolafe
For the last episode of 2024, I invited Deji Akomolafe to discuss running Microsoft workloads on top of VCF. I’ve known Deji for a long time, and if anyone is passionate about VMware and Microsoft technology, it is him. Deji went over the many caveats, and best practices when it comes to running for instance SQL on top of VMware VCF (or vSphere for that matter). NUMA, CPU Scheduling, latency sensitive settings, power settings, virtual disk controllers, just some of the things you can expect in this episode. You can listen to the episode on Spotify, Apple, or via the embedded player below.