VMware Communities Roundtable

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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Bob and Matt talk about the news around vSphere Standard Article about being available again and how it effect community lab environments. Also mention of Advantage 1 year license without a a VCP certification for study purposes.

Drew NIelsen comes talks about the new VCAPs, VCP certifications and the VCDX defines that happened at Explore in Vegas. The VCDX program is back!