Perth VMUG November Meeting with Broadcom + NetApp

About Event

Date: Thursday the 12th of November 2026

Time: 4:30pm to 7:00pm

Location: The Shoe Bar - Shop GSO7 Yagan Square, 376 - 420 Wellington St, Perth WA 6050

Please join us for beer & pizza at this quarterly vMUG event in November sponsored by NetApp.

Presenter: Stephen Webb - Broadcom Senior Solution Architect

Duration: 15min

Topic: VMware Explore 2026 Executive Recap
This executive update will highlight the key core architecture announcements from VMware Explore 2026, new software releases, and the evolving ecosystem dynamics reshaping the private cloud.

Specifically, we look at three major areas:

VMware AI Factory: A brief overview of how this new platform enables customers to automate the deployment, management, and scaling of enterprise AI workloads in private clouds.
Agentic AI Governance: An introduction to new tools like AgentMinder and Tanzu designed to secure AI pipelines.
Ecosystem Shifts: An analysis of changing industry alliances and hardware optimizations with Lenovo, Supermicro, and AMD.

Presenter: Adam Thurtell - NetApp Partner Technical Lead

Duration: 45min

Topic: Unlock unrealised value from your VCF deployments with NetApp

Join us for a live demonstration of NetApp Data Infrastructure Insights to unlock complete hybrid observability across your VMware environments.

We will cover:

Live demonstration of our Data Infrastructure insights Observability of VMWare environments.
Show casing 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 they can ask their own questions to our Ai chat bot on the vmware environments
Always popular, audience can ask anything in natural language.
Our ONTAP tools for VMware integration / Trident for TANZU / VKS
Broader VMware in cloud and the NetApp Console Canvas
Shift Toolkit (Convert/Migrate other HyperVisor environments to VMware)