**Join us for the Wisconsin VMUG October 2026 meeting being held on October 6th from 8:30am to 2:00pm at the Wisconsin Bar Association
We have a full docket of great presentations in store for this meeting! Bob Plankers from Broadcom will share what’s new from VMware Explore. Miguel Medina will dive into NVMe Memory Tiering in vSphere 9. Randy Lee will discuss protecting and recovering Active Directory and Entra ID from identity attacks. Brandon Hahn will take us through the essentials of mastering the jump to VCF 9. Scott Bowe will showcase how VCF Operations 9 has evolved into a comprehensive infrastructure management platform. We will end it all with a panel discussion and final comments. We are looking forward to seeing you there!
AGENDA
- 8:30 Registration
- 9:00 Welcome by Nathan Scheunemann and Mike Nelson
- 9:10 Presentation: What’s New from VMware Explore by Bob Plankers, Product Management & Marketing at Broadcom (20 min)
- 9:30 Break
- 9:40 NVMe Memory Tiering by Miguel Medina, Senior Solutions Architect at Broadcom
Memory Tiering allows for using cost-effective devices like NVMe as a second memory tier. This new feature in vSphere 9 enables organizations to increase VM consolidation, lower TCO, and optimize resource consumption. - 10:20 Break
- 10:30 Presentation: Identity Is the New Control Plane: Protecting and Recovering AD and Entra ID by Randy Lee, Senior Systems Engineer at Veeam Software
Moving from Active Directory to Entra ID creates new dependencies, attack paths, and recovery challenges. This technical session examines token theft, MFA bypass, malicious OAuth consent, compromised service principals, privilege sprawl, Conditional Access, and hybrid synchronization risks. Using real-world identity attacks and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, Randy Lee will explain how organizations can better protect, detect, respond to, and recover from identity compromise. - 11:10 Break
- 11:20 Presentation: Mastering the Jump to VCF 9 by Brandon Hahn, Technical Adoption Management at Broadcom
The path to VCF 9 doesn’t have to be a leap of faith. Join us for a deep dive into the pre-check essentials, automated deployment workflows, and the “gotchas” you need to avoid for a successful day-zero transition. - 12:00 Lunch (Thanks Veamm Software!) & Networking
- 12:45 Presentation: VCF Operations 9 – What’s New! by Scott Bowe, Solutions Architect at Broadcom
In VCF 9, Operations has grown from being a simple monitoring tool, to a full infrastructure management point. In addition to all of the powerful monitoring capabilities it has always had, it can now support certificate and password management, patching, and through readily available extensions even gather in-guest metrics! - 1:25 Panel Discussion
- 2:00 Wrap-up: Announcements and Drawings
The Wisconsin Bar Association is located at
5302 Eastpark Blvd.
Madison, WI 53718-2101
Directions to the State Bar Center
