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Do we need Puppet for People? Will we all turn into Geppetto in the end? Nick Weaver explains it all, in this 32 minute quickie. Nick, who blogs at nickapedia.com is as quick with his mouth as he is with his blogging, so you´re in for a real quickfire episode! I´m sure we have missed […]

Greg Ferro who runs the Packet Pushers Podcast and etheralmind.com, joins us to try and explain what Software Defined Networking really is. Does he succeed? We´ll leave that up to you, the vSoupheads, to decide. Show linkware: Free-Form Discussion on Hybrid Switching, OpenFlow, and SDN with Cisco VMware NSX Network Virtualization OpenStack An unusually short list, perhaps […]

Maish Saidel-Keesing, you know, the don´t vote for me guy who came in at a very respectable #41 place in this years top VMware & virtualization blog vote, was voted our favorite guest for Episode #30! We go on and on about CloudCredibility and gamification, but we also get to poke around a few other subjects […]

Finally we get one of the worlds most popular saffas Gregg on! While he has been lurking in the shadows before, this is his first time. First time on vSoup that is, considering that his wife is very pregnant… And on that bombshell, on to the content: VMware PEX Conferences in Vegas: Is it a […]

What´s better than to celebrate the holidays with your favorite grandpa? That´s what we thought too, and this time we have Darren Woollard as our esteemed guest (we returned him safely home after the recording was done). Since the mayans were wrong after all, we´re happy to present vSoup Episode #28, which also marks the […]

Sorry for the delay, but here we are again, this time with Joep Piscaer freshly crowned VCDX #101. Since we´re a bit on the slow side releasing this one, we´ll just get right to it. Quick summary of topics: VCDX design and defense and Joeps experiences Joeps new website vcdx101.com Tablets, Phones and Horizon Mobile […]

Live from VMworld Europe 2012, it´s another special video edition episode of vSoup! Listen to, and view, Ed Czerwins vBrownbag Tech Talk: “Virtualizing workloads in the face of Disaster” For more background information, read Shanghai… we have a problem… on vNinja.net.

Like last year, two thirds of the vSoup chefs are present at VMworld Europe. And, unfortunately Christian is still the odd one out, missing VMworld yet again. Anyway, on with the live recording which, by popular demand, features Ed Grigson who still blogs at vexperienced.co.uk. Watch live streaming video from vmwarecommunitytv at livestream.com And yes, […]

Our guest this time is John Walsh who manages the OS/Virtualization/Storage/HPC Teams at Northwestern University and a fellow vExpert. As far as topics go there is no way around New- vs Old-school storage, and as the title reflects, should “server huggers” be afraid of the Software Defined Datacenter? Other topics covered in this episode: John […]

We´re back, and so is Mike Laverick and this time he brings along his book writing buddy Barry Coombs! Of course, their new book Building End-User Computing Solutions with VMware View is the hot topic of the day. We do get into other topics as well, check out the list: VMWorld Mikes new role at […]

We´ve been graced with the presence of Mr. Joe Onisick, Cloud and Datacenter Guru and all around nice guy (If you agree with him, that is). So, topics? We had a few: Dell Quest Acquisition VMware DynamicOPs Acquisition Multi-Hypervisor Data Centers Amsterdam TechEd – How does it compare to VMWorld Conference arranged parties – are […]

Finally a new episode, that is way overdue because of Ed´s Asian Adventures. This weeks guest is PowerShell and PowerCLI Guru Hal Rottenberg, and in no particular order we get into: VMworld sessions Forum usage When was your Powershell ‘Moment of Clarity’? Mac use and associated challenges Splunk and vSphere usage Splunk + development in […]

In this special edition of vSoup we welcome Bas Raayman to have a little chat regarding the new VCDX Wannabe website. Naturally we talk VCDX certification, including defenses, the VCAP certifications and Bas spills the beans on the VCAP-DCA beta exam.

Guess what? We have a guest this time too! Michael Poore, yet another englishman who´s recently visited the US of A, finally graces us with his presence! Now, tell us, how large is your shower head? Seemingly a random question, but hey, this is vSoup after all. Is it possible to work towards the VCDX […]

Once again we bring you David Owen. For some reason he seems to be a returning guest, we only wish that the listener numbers would reflect it! David was recently one of the Virtualization Field Day 2 – Silicon Valley delegates, and finally gets a chance to tell the world what it feels like to […]