VMware Communities Roundtable

Eric and Tony talk about the Broadcom New Year and the Community Plans being kicked off for 2027. More community, things keep getting fixed. Which is a good thing. Also a little discussion around the vSphere Express pricing 787 episode ! And of course some fun BBQ discusson.

Bob and Eric talk about 2027 New year and the Explore 2027 call for papers, vSphere Express price list and more.

Tony talks about his new Home Lab post

[Wondernerd.net/about/my-home-lab](http://Wondernerd.net/about/my-home-lab)

which has a complete VCF 9.1 environment which he bought used off Ebay piece by piece and also has a NVIDIA L4 GPU for Private AI support. He uses it for virtual desktop environment running Omnisa Virtual environments as well as Agentic Linux environments for agent enablement. Great blog, good show.

Eric, Bob and Tony talk about the new vExpert Open Beta program for vexpertstage.aruba-consulting.com for those who want to see the new IRC chat environment as well as vExpert Gigs and the New Country/City directory.

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