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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 – 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.

Random Short Take #95

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Welcome to Random Short Take #95. Let’s get random.

  • Chris M. Evans put together an editorial on why centralised storage refuses to go away. I thought the point about ransomware was an interesting one, although some of the systems I’ve seen out there haven’t been secured terribly well.
  • Speaking of storage and ransomware, there’s an excellent article over at Backblaze on Object Lock. Worth checking out as I think a lot of people like to talk about Object Lock without understanding what it is (and isn’t).
  • Speaking of storage, Mellor covered a recent presentation by Tom Lyon – eminent Sun alumnus says NFS must die. I came from the block side of things, so NFS was always a little quirky but gee whiz you can do some good (and dumb) stuff with it.
  • I’ve followed Frances for some time, and really enjoyed this article on her experiences in the transition from VMware to Broadcom. I think everyone’s journey has been different, and it’s invariably a little more nuanced than The Register would have us believe. But as I’m an employee that’s probably all I’ll say about that publicly.
  • Speaking of Broadcom, Tony put together this excellent article on Cloud Director Tenancy Container Applications. It’s very thorough, and he’s promised me he’ll be doing more soon.
  • In press release news, Hammerspace are dong stuff with GPU data orchestration capabilities to accelerate access to S3 data. If you haven’t looked into Hammerspace, you really should.
  • In other PR news, Datadobi has unveiled StorageMAP 7.0. I tried to catch up with the Datadobi folks before I went on leave but it didn’t work out. Hopefully I can get hold of them to dive in a little deeper on this in the near future.
  • Finally, JB published a great piece entitled Existential Having. If you follow me on the photos social media you’ll know that I have a lot of records. And basketball jerseys. And sneakers. I don’t know why I have these things, but they bring me comfort. For a period of time. And then I Marie Kondo that crap and start all over.