Unexplored Territory

Author: Duncan Epping

The Unexplored Territory Podcast takes you deep into the world of datacenters and cloud (native) tech, with a special spotlight on VMware, Broadcom, and everything happening in the ecosystem. Hosted by Duncan Epping, blogger at Yellow-Bricks.com, and co-author of the vSphere Clustering and vSAN Deep Dive books! Each episode brings on top industry experts to unpack the latest trends, share real-world insights, and talk about whats next in the world of enterprise IT.
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#113 - Procuring hardware for a vSAN based VCF infrastructure - featuring John Nicholson!
Sunday, 1 March, 2026

I've been on the Virtually Speaking podcast several times, so it was time to invite one of the hosts to the Unexplored Territory Podcast and discuss his favorite topic, hardware configurations, and the bill of materials!John Nicholson goes over all the ins and outs of procuring new hardware and talks about ordering components for existing hardware. We discuss NICs, Switches, Ready Node configurations, Emulated Ready Node configurations, NVMe devices, and much more.During the discussion, various blogs and videos were mentioned, make sure to check those as well!https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2023/07/26/expanded-hardware-compatibility-for-vsan-express-storage-architecture/https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/326476/what-you-can-and-cannot-change-in-a-vsan.htmlhttps://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2023/07/27/yes-you-can-change-things-on-a-vsan-esa-readynode/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjen1ER8ASc https://www.vmware.com/explore/video-library/video/6360757998112