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In this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast, Pete and John sat down with Chen Wei, the creator of HCIBench, from VMware by Broadcom. HCIBench streamlines HCI benchmarking, simplifying a once-complex process.
Chen Wei shared HCIBench's journey, emphasizing its user-friendly interface, which caters to both novices and experts. We explored its technical architecture and discussed key metrics like throughput and latency crucial for assessing HCI performance accurately.
Our conversation also touched on HCIBench's collaborative development model, driven by user feedback and community contributions. Looking ahead, Chen discussed upcoming features and the tool's evolving role in the HCI industry.
Tune in to gain insights into HCI benchmarking and discover how HCIBench is shaping the future of infrastructure optimization.
Links Mentioned:
Download HCIBench - https://via.vmware.com/hcibench
Blog: How do I Identify if I have bad performance
Reference Architectures - https://core.vmware.com/reference-architectures

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The Virtually Speaking Podcast is a technical podcast dedicated to discussing VMware topics related to storage and availability. In each episode, Pete Flecha and John Nicholson bring in various subject matter experts from VMware and within the industry to discuss their respective areas of expertise. If you’re new to the Virtually Speaking Podcast check out all episodes on vSpeakingPodcast.com and follow on Twitter @VirtSpeaking

Last week VMware by Broadcom announced the general availability of VMware Live Recovery, an innovative solution that delivers unmatched cyber and data resiliency for VMware Cloud Foundation environments. VMware Live Recovery is the industry’s first solution that combines enterprise-grade disaster recovery with purpose-built cyber recovery in a single management experience across clouds. On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John welcome Mike McLaughlin and Cato Grace to discuss the details of this new solution. 
 

There are two new tools to help understand and calculate the required subscription capacity for the new VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) offerings, which are licensed based on physical CPU Cores for compute and total raw physical storage (TiBs) for vSAN. On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John welcome William Lam to discuss the details of these new scripts and how demonstrates with a live demo. 
Links Mentioned 
WilliamLam.com
VMware KB 95927 - Counting Cores for VMware Cloud Foundation and vSphere Foundation and TiBs for vSAN
VMware KB 96426 - License Calculator for VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware vSphere Foundation and VMware vSAN

The Virtually Speaking Podcast is venturing into the world of live streaming. On this mini episode, Pete and John discuss the new Apple Vision Pro and promote our upcoming Live Stream with William Lam this Friday at 1:00 EST. Enjoy!

On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John welcome Glenn Sizemore to share the details of VMC on AWS SDDC Version 1.24.

This week VMware announced the latest release of VMware Data Services Manager (DSM), version 2.0. DSM enables the provisioning of data services (e.g., databases, object stores) on vSphere infrastructure. This release builds on earlier versions of VMware Data Services Manager 1.x, but also extends the product.
On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast Cormac Hogan shares the details of this new release.