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Brisbane VMUG – September 2026

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The September 2026 edition of the Brisbane VMUG meeting will be held on Thursday 24th September at Christie’s, 320 Adelaide Street, Brisbane from 4pm to 5:30pm. It’s sponsored by Canonical and Broadcom and promises to be a great afternoon.

Here’s the agenda:

VCF with Ubuntu (Peter Hauck – Broadcom and James Gill – Canonical)
Secure platform deployment with secure package management for the private cloud.
  • Secure Automated Deployments for Complex Workloads
  • Building custom secure VKS platform based on Ubuntu.
  • Ubuntu fun with Automation
Architecting for Failure: A Deep Dive into VMC on AWS’s Multi-AZ Resiliency (Dan Frith – Broadcom)
Multi-AZ SDDCs promise continuity when an Availability Zone goes dark – but what actually happens in the seconds and minutes after that failure domain disappears?
  • How a Multi-AZ SDDC distributes management and compute across independent failure domains, and how vSAN managed storage replication keeps data consistent across AZs before failure occurs.
  • VMC on AWS instance types
  • Roadmap (Version updates, vSAN enhancements, and more!)

Canonical and Broadcom have gone to great lengths to make sure this will be a fun and informative session. You can find out more information and register for the event here. I hope to see you there. Also, if you’re interested in sponsoring one of these events, please get in touch with me and I can help make it happen.

Brisbane VMUG – July 2026

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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.

Brisbane VMUG – May 2026

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The May 2026 edition of the Brisbane VMUG meeting will be held on Wednesday 13th May at Christies Workspaces, Ground Floor, 320 Adelaide St, Brisbane from 12pm – 2pm. It’s sponsored by Broadcom and DriveSavers and promises to be a great afternoon.

Here’s the agenda:

Recovering Critical Virtual Environments when backups fail or are compromised through a Cyber Incident

Adrian Briscoe – Director – DriverSavers Data Recovery

DriveSavers as a last-resort, enterprise-grade recovery partner for VMware environments when backups and native tools fail. It explains how DriveSavers recovers virtual machines, disks, and critical business data across ESXi and vSphere environments, covering common failure scenarios like corruption, ransomware, and storage issues. It highlights flexible recovery methods (remote, onsite, lab) and emphasises strong security, compliance, and proven expertise.

Security and Compliance at the speed of apps

Mark Cheetham – FSI Strategy Director APJ CTO Advisory – Broadcom

In the world of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), agility is the goal—but compliance is the requirement. Too often, security becomes the “Department of No” because manual audits and static policies can’t keep up with automated deployment pipelines.

We will be diving into how VCF 9 and the latest Advanced Cyber Compliance (ACC) services allow you to:

  • Automate Drift Remediation
  • Implement Zero-Trust for AI
  • Shift Security Left

Don’t let your compliance checklist become a bottleneck. Let’s talk about building a private cloud that is secure by design and fast by default.

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

Brisbane VMUG – March 2026

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The March 2026 edition of the Brisbane VMUG meeting will be held on Wednesday 18th March at Ground Floor, 320 Adelaide St, Brisbane City QLD 4000 from 3pm to 5pm. It’s sponsored by Rubrik and promises to be a great afternoon.

 

Overview

Rubrik – Beyond the Backup: Architecting True Cyber Resiliency in Today’s IT Environment
Michael Huynh – Sales Engineer Rubrik

In the modern threat landscape, the question isn’t if your VMware environment will be targeted by ransomware, but when. While traditional backups were designed for accidental deletions and hardware failures, today’s sophisticated cyber attacks specifically target the backup infrastructure itself to ensure you have no choice but to pay.

This session dives into why “backup” is no longer enough and why Cyber Resiliency is the new gold standard. We will explore how Rubrik integrates with VMware to move beyond simple data protection into a proactive defense posture.

Key takeaways include:

  • Immutable Architecture: How to ensure your data is natively immutable and logically air-gapped from the production vSphere cluster.
  • Zero Trust Data Security: Implementing granular RBAC and Multi-Person Authentication (MPA) to prevent rogue admins or compromised credentials from wiping your environment.
  • Threat Hunting & Blast Radius: Using AI-driven insights to identify exactly which VMs were hit, when the encryption began, and how to avoid “re-infecting” your environment during recovery.
  • Orchestrated Recovery: Moving from “recovery in days” to “recovery in minutes” using automated workflows that restore entire VMware vApps and clusters at scale.

VMware by Broadcom – Extending the life of your server fleet with VCF 9
Mark Foley – Staff Solution Engineer VMware

There is a little over 18 months to go until end of support for vSphere 8, with the upcoming release of VCF 9.1 many organisations are now getting serious about planning for the adoption of VCF9. The availability and cost of compatible hardware has become one of the largest barriers to VCF 9 adoption, in this session we’ll walk through some recent (and upcoming!) changes from Broadcom that may allow you to roll out VCF 9 on your existing hardware.

You can find out more information and register for the event here. I hope to see you there. Also, if you’re interested in sponsoring one of these events, please get in touch with me and I can help make it happen.

Brisbane VMUG – November 2025

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The November edition of the Brisbane VMUG meeting will be held on Thursday 27th November at Christie Spaces, 320 Adelaide St (Room F) from 3pm – 5pm. It’s sponsored by Broadcom and Google Cloud and promises to be a great afternoon.

  • Session 1: Modernize All the Things with VKS in VMware Cloud Foundation (Presenter: Mike Francis – Principal Transformation Architect – Broadcom). VCF Supervisor and Supervisor Services is a pivotal change. In this session we will discuss what Supervisor is, how you should view Supervisor Services as the foundation for your cloud and how this capability modernises on-premise Cloud Operations. We will demonstrate Supervisor and Supervisor Services and draw the connection between it and operations modernisation.
  • Session 2: What’s new with GCVE and native cloud integration (Presenter: Clay Quinn – Senior Solution Architect – Google Cloud). We will explore the seamless architecture between private SDDC and Google’s cloud-native ecosystem, demonstrating how high-bandwidth, low-latency networking enables direct access to services like BigQuery, Cloud Storage, and Vertex AI. Discussion of practical use cases for extending your existing VMware estate, allowing modernization of applications, unification of operations, and leveraging advanced analytics without the risk or complexity of immediate refactoring.

Broadcom and Google Cloud have gone to great lengths to make sure this will be a fun and informative session. You can find out more information and register for the event here.

Brisbane VMUG – July 2025

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The July 2025 edition of the Brisbane VMUG meeting will be held on Thursday 24th July at the Pig ‘N’ Whistle Riverside, Riverside Centre, 123 Eagle St, Brisbane City QLD 4000 from 3pm to 5pm. It’s sponsored by Druva and promises to be a great afternoon. Register here.

Here’s the agenda:

Session 1 (45min – 1hr): Cyber Recovery for VMware (Druva)

Presenter: Bruce Perram (Senior Systems Engineer)

Topic: Many organisations today are focused on prevention of cyber-attacks however organisations are still being breached. How do you recover from a cyber-attack? This session will include a demo of cyber recovery in a VMware environment. It will also explore the difference between backup & recovery from cyber recovery and the capability required rapidly perform a cyber recovery.

Session 2 (45min – 1hr): VCF 9 – The High Points and Demo (Broadcom)

Presenters: Peter Hauck (Staff Solutions Architect) and David Miller (Senior Solutions Architect)

Topic: With VCF 9 release last month there is a lot of new and exciting features to show. We will leave the details feature discussions to the excellent marketing coming from Broadcom HQ. In this session we run through a live demo of the solution and discuss what it means for customers today. The session is live so lots of opportunity to ask questions.

Druva has gone to great lengths to make sure this will be a fun and informative session. Following the sessions, the VMUG team will be hosting vBeers – an opportunity to network with other members of the community and chat with the experts!

Exciting giveaways await! You could score prizes like a VMUG Advantage subscription or a large LEGO kit – just make sure to register to be eligible.

Brisbane VMUG – February 2025

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The February 2025 edition of the Brisbane VMUG meeting will be held on Tuesday 25th February at the NetApp office (Level 17, Central Plaza Two, 66 Eagle St, Brisbane) from 12:00 – 1:30pm. It’s sponsored by Netapp and promises to be a great lunch and learn session.

Here’s the agenda:

  • Wade Juppenlatz, Technical Partner Lead at NetApp, will be presenting ONTAP tools for VMware (OTV) integration and a dual site active/active configuration using vSphere HA and NetApp BlueXP.
  • Peter Hauck, Cloud Infrastructure Architect at VMware by Broadcom, will be presenting an overview of memory tiering and how it can help reduce hardware costs. He’ll cover off what capabilities and features you can expect to see in the production release of memory tiering in VCF 9 as well as how you can use the current tech preview version in vSphere 8 to get much more out of your home lab.

NetApp has gone to great lengths to make sure this will be a fun and informative session. You can find out more information and register for the event here. Also, if you’re interested in sponsoring one of these events, please get in touch with me and I can help make it happen.

Brisbane VMUG – November 2024

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The November 2024 edition of the Brisbane VMUG meeting will be held on Tuesday 12th November at Level 9/116 Adelaide St, Brisbane City QLD 4000, Australia from 12pm – 1:30pm. It’s sponsored by VyOS and promises to be a great session.

Here’s the agenda:

  1. Brief Intro VyOS & BGP-EVPN
  2. What is the problem we are solving (demo output)?
  3. Diagram (inside ESXi and VDS | network topology)
  4. Demo
  5. Conclusion – what more is possible

The folks from VyOS have gone to great lengths to make sure this will be a fun and informative session. You can find out more information and register for the event here. Also, if you’re interested in sponsoring one of these events, please get in touch with me and I can help make it happen.

Brisbane VMUG – Lunch and Learn – April 2024

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The April 2024 edition of the Brisbane VMUG meeting will be held on Wednesday 24th April at the Attura Head Office (Level 9, 116 Adelaide Street, Brisbane, Queensland, 4000) from 12pm – 1:30pm. It’s sponsored by Cloud Ready Solutions and promises to be a great session.

Here’s the agenda:

  • Potential threats to virtual environments
  • Protecting virtual workloads with NAKIVO
    • VM backup
    • Ransomware protection
    • Instant recovery
    • Disaster recovery
    • IT Monitoring for VMware vSphere
    • MSP Console
  • Best practices for virtual data protection
    • The 3-2-1-1-0 strategy
    • Automated workflows
    • Storage efficiency
    • Flexible retention
    • Backup security
    • Backup vs. replication
    • Case studies
    • Technical demo
  • Q&A session

Cloud Ready Solutions has gone to great lengths to make sure this will be a fun and informative session and I’m really looking forward to hearing about NAKIVO. You can find out more information and register for the event here. I hope to see you there. Also, if you’re interested in sponsoring one of these events, please get in touch with me and I can help make it happen.

Brisbane VMUG – October 2023

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Event Overview

This month I’ll be presenting a recap of VMware Explore for all those that could not make it overseas, exploring what’s new and innovations. The agenda covers:

  • Cloud & Edge infrastructure
  • Modernize infrastructure, operating models and applications
  • Networking & Security
  • Automating app experiences with a comprehensive and secure network
  • Modern Applications & Cloud Management
  • Develop, operate and optimize apps at scale on any cloud
  • Hybrid Workforce
  • Enable work anywhere with secure and frictionless experiences

An introduction to VyOS by Shah Anupam covering how VyOS networking can be leveraged within the VMware ecosystem.

 

Primary Venue

Brisbane VMware Office

Queen St 8/324, 4000 Brisbane, QLD, AU

Brisbane VMware Office – Goondiwindi Room

Register here. Hope to see you there. [Edit] I should mention it’s happening on Wednesday October 18th, 2023 from 12:00 – 1:30pm.