Unexplored Territory
by Duncan Epping
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#129 - Enhanced Compression, QLC, vSAN over FC, and much more!…
#129 - Enhanced Compression, QLC, vSAN over FC, and much more!…
About this podcast
The Unexplored Territory Podcast takes you deep into the world of datacenters and cloud (native) tech, with a special spotlight on VMware, Broadcom, and everything happening in the ecosystem. Hosted by Duncan Epping, blogger at Yellow-Bricks.com, and co-author of the vSphere Clustering and vSAN Deep Dive books! Each episode brings on top industry experts to unpack the latest trends, share real-world insights, and talk about what’s next in the world of enterprise IT.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 129 episodes
- #129 - Enhanced Compression, QLC, vSAN over FC, and much more! Featuring Anoop Gunturi · 37 minIn Episode 129, Anoop Gunturi, vSAN Platform PM, joins me to explore how the vSAN roadmap focuses on lowering the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for the VCF platform. We dive into…
- #128 - Live from ITQon, in the VCF trenches, and announcing ITQ Cloud Platform! · 24 minI was invited to present a session at ITQon last month, and I decided to bring my portable podcast recording gear to record a few clips with various people from ITQ. As most of…
- #127 - Drew Nielsen introducing the new VCDX program! · 22 minI bumped into Drew Nielsen at Explore in Las Vegas and we briefly discussed the overhauled VCDX Program. Not only did the name change from VMware Certified Design Expert to…
- #126 - VMware Explore Las Vegas 2026! · 39 minI flew out to Las Vegas this week to present a few sessions at Explore 2026! I brought my mobile podcast recording kit for the first time and decided to record some clips with…
- #125 - Announcing the VCF Inspector Fling featuring Alan Renouf! · 31 minI noticed a blog post about a new fling called VCF Inspector last week, so I had to invite the author Alan Renouf to the show to talk us through it. VCF Inspector, in my opinion…
- #124 - VMware Explore 2026, the podcast! · 35 minFor 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…
- #123 - Announcing the 5th edition of the IT Ops mgmt guidebook · 33 minFor 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…
- #122 - Exploring the world of VCF Edge and Zero Touch Provisioning with Dhruv Tyagi · 37 minI 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…
- #121 - Operational, Disaster, and Ransomware Recovery using VCF Protection and Recovery featuring Velina Krasteva! · 47 minWith 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…
- #120 - Announcing VCF Native S3 Object Storage, featuring Rakesh! · 28 minVCF 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…
- #119 - All things (VCF 9.1) security featuring Bob Plankers! · 51 minRecently I realized I hadn't had Bob Plankers on the show yet, so it was time to get him to join the show and talk all things security. Bob goes over all the various features we…
- #118 - What's new for vSAN with VCF 9.1 featuring Pete Koehler! · 32 minBroadcom just announced VCF 9.1, so it was time to get an expert on the show to talk us through the enhancements that will be coming for vSAN specifically. As always, Pete…
- #117 - An update on all things Memory Tiering featuring Arvind Jagannath! · 28 minArvind is back to provide an update on all things Memory Tiering. The interest in Memory Tiering is high due to insane memory prices and supply chain issues. Arvind goes over the…
- #116 - A VMware Cloud Foundation constructs primer featuring Gary Blake! · 45 minI sometimes get confused when people talk about VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Fleets, Instances, and Domains! So I decided to invite Gary Blake to the show to explain to us all…
- #115 - GPU resource management for AI workloads with Frank Denneman! · 49 minRecently, Frank published a series of blog posts on GPU resource management. I invited Frank to the show to explain why GPU resource management is different than CPU and memory…
- #114 - vSAN Storage Clusters with Kalyan Krishnaswamy! · 38 minRecently there was a big announcement about the adoption of vSAN Storage Clusters by Audi. All the reasons for me to invite Kalyan back to the show. During this episode, Kalyan…
- #113 - Procuring hardware for a vSAN based VCF infrastructure - featuring John Nicholson! · 43 minI've been on the Virtually Speaking podcast several times, so it was time to invite one of the hosts to the Unexplored Territory Podcast and discuss his favorite topic, hardware…
- #112 - Introducing VMware vDefend featuring Chris McCain! · 57 minA few episodes ago we had Yves Hertoghs on the show to discuss networking, so I decided it was also time to discuss security. As Chris McCain has been at the forefront of…
- #111 - VMUG Connect, coming to a city near you soon! (Featuring Brad Tompkins) · 32 minIn 2025 the first VMUG Connect event was held in the US, and as it was a big success VMUG decided to repeat that formula in Amsterdam, Minneapolis, Toronto, Dallas and Orlando. I…
- #110 - vSAN over Fibre Channel featuring Rakesh Radhakrishnan! · 23 minAfter Rakesh and I shared the news at Explore, and Explore On Tour, that vSAN would potentially be able to use Fibre Channel as a transport layer, since then the phone has been…
