The July 2026 edition of the Brisbane VMUG meeting will be held on Thursday 23rd July at the NetApp Office, Level 17, Central Plaza II, 66 Eagle Street, Brisbane from 3pm – 6:30pm. It’s sponsored by NetApp, Ingram Micro, and Broadcom and promises to be a great afternoon.

Here’s the agenda:

3pm – VMUG Leader Intro

3.10-4pm – Unlock unrealised value from your VCF deployments with NetApp ONTAP 9.1

Presented by Chris Gondek – Solutions Engineering Manager, Australia and New Zealand, NetApp and Wade Juppenlatz – Technical Business Development Manager, Ingram Micro

Live demonstration of the NetApp Data Infrastructure insights Observability of VMware environments.

• Showcasing where there are opportunities to right size
• Where there is over/under utilisation/provisioning
• Where there is opportunity to reclaim waste
• Audience Participation / interaction where you can ask your own questions to the NetApp AI chat bot on VMware environments
• Always popular, you can ask anything that you would want, in natural language like “show me where I save on VMware licensing cost”, etc)
• Trident for TANZU / VKS
• Our ONTAP tools for VMware integration / UX demo
• Broader VMware in cloud and the NetApp Console Canvas
• Shift Toolkit (Convert/Migrate other HyperVisor environments to VMware)

4-4.30pm – VCF 9.1 Introduction and Updates from Broadcom

Presented by Peter Hauck, Staff Solutions Architect, Broadcom

4.30-5pm – Community Session (tbc)

5pm onwards – Networking, Pizza, vBeers and Giveaways!

You can find out more information and register for the event here.