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Oct 2026

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VMware experts talk about virtualization live every Wednesday at noon CA time. Virtualization news and tech mixed with a "Late Night at VMworld" informality. Join us!

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October 13, 2026

#784 - Home Lab off Ebay Piece by piece with a L4 GPU with Tony Foster

Tony talks about his new Home Lab post [Wondernerd.net/about/my-home-lab](http://Wondernerd.net/about/my-home-lab) which has a complete VCF 9.1 environment which he bought used off Ebay piece by piece and also has a NVIDIA L4 GPU for Private AI support. He uses it for virtual desktop environment running Omnisa Virtual environments as well as Agentic Linux environments for agent enablement. Great blog, good show.

October 6, 2026

#783 - vExpert Open Beta and vSphere MCP server

Eric, Bob and Tony talk about the new vExpert Open Beta program for vexpertstage.aruba-consulting.com for those who want to see the new IRC chat environment as well as vExpert Gigs and the New Country/City directory.

September 29, 2026

#782 - VMUG Orlanddo with Code Labs using AI to write Raspberrry Pi Code and deploying though VCF

Why spend 1 day a week learning AI, because it's moving that fast, how to design your Data Center with AI capabilities, and everything else you can learn from VMUG Connect Orlando.

September 22, 2026

#781 - vSphere Standard Edition is back w/Bob, Matt and Eric

Bob and Matt talk about the news around vSphere Standard Article about being available again and how it effect community lab environments. Also mention of Advantage 1 year license without a a VCP certification for study purposes.

September 15, 2026

#780 - Cetrifications New VCPs and VCAPs and VCDX defiense with Drew Nielsen

Drew NIelsen comes talks about the new VCAPs, VCP certifications and the VCDX defines that happened at Explore in Vegas. The VCDX program is back!

September 10, 2026

#779 - Explore Highlights a Great Show this Year!

Bob and Eric cover all the highlights from the Explore 2026 in Vegas this year. It was crowded with 4800 attendees and things were busy. Hackathon was twice as big as before, VMware{code}labs were full with Kubernetes and the Hub was crowded and buzzing. VCF 9.1 with integrated VKS and AI was what was happening.

August 19, 2026

#778 - Implementing VKS on VCF an architecture guide w/Leif Egil Hegdal

As we all learn about VKS on VCF, it's an adventure to explore the Platform engineering. Leif worked on a VKS blog looking at the big considerations when looking at VKS.

August 16, 2026

#777 - Bypassing the VCF 9.1 Subnet Trap w/Piotr Tarnawski

Piotr talks about how he managed his 9.1 upgrade and the Powershell calling REST API's to avoid a subnet trap where traffic is blocked between subnets during install.

August 9, 2026

#776 - Hackathon at Explore with Dale Hassigner

Dale Hassigner, 2025 Hackathon winner comes on the show to discuss what's happening for 2026, for AI learning to AI building, it should be a great Hackathon this year. With over 100 people signed up, we expect a record attendance.

July 7, 2026

#775 - Platform Engineering 2.0 w/Pakaj Gupta

Pakaj takes us through where DevOps has been and where it's going and the glass ceiling that requires a new way of thinking. Bob, Tony and Eric chat with Pankaj to get inside his brain.