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Philip Buckley-Mellor, a video on demand infrastructure consultant is our guest. Since he, unlike the hosts, is used to tackling big things we get into scalabiliy, Splunk, vCOPS 5. For some reason, augmented reality also makes an appearance, and traffic in Vietnam. And, can anyone guess which series of movies would be the best de-duplication […]

Welcome to a guest-less episode of vSoup, where the hosts find themselves left all alone in the big world pondering what hit them in 2011 and what’s going to hit them in 2012. We get into all sorts of topics like Christian’s new job, Volkswagen shutting off off hours email, Ed’s Hyper-V to vSphere experience, […]

Duncan Epping, VCDX #007 with a license to pimp VMware, is our guest. A promising young lad that might just have a future in the virtualization space, if he plays his cards right. We talk about Duncan’s next project, vShield App, Hairy Security Guys, and we get the answer to the ultimate question “What is […]

For the first, and quite possible the last time, vSoup goes video! Recorded live at VMworld Europe 2011, with special guest Ed Grigson who blogs at vexperienced.co.uk. Ed and Chris are both present in the studio, but Christian, who can’t be at VMworld this year, is back home in Norway. Thankfully his presence is emulated […]

Arjan is one of the rather huge dutch virtualization army, and a really nice guy as well. We get into all sorts of topics, like P2Ving Domain Controllers, Christian's new job, Ed's possible Asian rim job, and can you, as a consultant, really say to to a client/customer? Also, for some reason we get into replacing Christian (at VMworld Europe) with a potato, and the possibility of having Chris wandering around Copenhagen wearing a green bikini. VMware Workstation 8 gets some more well deserved attention too, including running Hyper-V in it. The value of conferences gets mentioned and so does the conference parties!

Once again the vSoup crew get involved with extreme sports, and get three guests all at once. Lugi Danakos, Chris Cicotte and Tim Oudin from the vCommunity Trust joins us to explain just what they are up to, and why!

Episode 15 of vSoup comes to you just before the VMware community avalanche that is VMworld hits your tweet stream. Featuring two guest who not only share the same name, but neither of them are actually going. Simon Long and Simon Seagrave join us for a chat about the vbeers tweetup initiative, building out labs […]

Three hosts, three guests. What could possibly go wrong? Stephen Foskett and Matt Simmons from Tech Field Day join us for the first time, and by popular demand we welcome back Bob Plankers! Naturally most of the talk revolves around Tech Field Day #7 which is right around the corner, but we manage to squeeze in some vSphere 5 talk as well.

Mike Laverick, the SRM guru, is our guest and we get into all sorts of goodness: VMUG’s, SRM, VMworld bands, some vRAM semi-speculation and vBeers get some attention too! What is an unconference? Are we commoditized yet? Linkware: VMware User Groups VMware SRM VMworld 2011 Band: The Killers vBeers vSphere Storage Appliance (and yes, Chris […]

  Lukewarm on the heals of the “Raising the bar , Part 5” webcast held by VMware today , Ed and Chris Deputize David Owen ( to sit in for Christian , who is currently sunning himself ) for a special reaction chat to the biggest VMware software launch yet. In our own vSoup way […]

Simon Long (you know, the guy with a massive slog) is our guest this time around, recorded from a dodgy hotel room in Leeds. Luckily Simon was able to see his car from the hotel room window, making sure no-one stole it during recording. Even if Simon is “one of them” (read: vendor) we can’t […]

We couldn’t let the opportunity of getting some of these great Tech Field Day people to talk with is, while recording, so here it is: Soundbites from Tech Field Day #6 vSoup Tech Field Day / BPaaS Soundbites with Mike Laverick and the happiest man in virtualization Tom Howarth.Mike Laverick talks about VMware SRM (surprise!) […]

The vSoup Team discus idea with the other Tech field Day delegates on the bus.

The vSoup team hunt down John Troyer for an update on the vExpert process.

Episode 11 - Chris, Ed & Christian talk about life after VMware with Scott Merril who has recently moved from ESX to "other" hypervisors.