{"podcast":{"title":"Virtually Speaking Podcast","slug":"virtually-speaking-podcast-174853","podcast_index_feed_id":174853,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/virtuallyspeakingpodcast/feed.xml","website_url":"https://www.vspeakingpodcast.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/9388395/vsp-alt-square_3d5tvh.png","author":"Virtually Speaking Podcast","episode_count":100,"summary":"The Virtually Speaking Podcast is a technical podcast dedicated to discussing VMware topics related to private and hybrid cloud. Each week Pete Flecha and John Nicholson bring in various subject matter experts from VMware and from within the industry to discuss their respective areas of expertise. If you’re new to the Virtually Speaking Podcast check out all episodes on vspeakingpodcast.com and follow on Twitter\\X @VirtSpeaking","last_synced_at":"2026-06-17T08:19:21.032421+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/virtually-speaking-podcast-174853"},"episode":{"title":"What's New in vSAN for VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1","slug":"what-s-new-in-vsan-for-vmware-cloud-foundation-9-1","published_at":"2026-05-12T21:07:55+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/virtually-speaking-podcast-174853/what-s-new-in-vsan-for-vmware-cloud-foundation-9-1","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/virtually-speaking-podcast-174853","url":"https://www.vspeakingpodcast.com/e/whats-new-in-vsan-for-vmware-cloud-foundation-91/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/hyfedupq4hs8z9hu/vsan91_pk.mp3","summary":"VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 introduces some of the biggest changes to vSAN in years, and in this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast, Pete and John sit down with Pete Koehler, Product Marketing Engineer for vSAN, to break it all down. The conversation dives into how vSAN is becoming simpler to operate, more efficient at scale, and better aligned with modern application and cyber recovery requirements. Pete explains the new Auto RAID capability, the redesigned effective capacity model, enhancements to global deduplication and compression, and how vSAN is reducing operational complexity through more automated, system-managed behavior. The team also explores native S3-compatible object storage for AI and modern applications, support for QLC drives in cyber recovery environments, improvements for migrations between OSA and ESA clusters, and expanded encryption support across storage clusters. Topics include: • Auto RAID and simplified storage policy management • Effective capacity and easier capacity planning • Global deduplication and new compression improvements • Zstandard (ZSTD) compression for structured data workloads • Native S3-compatible object storage in vSAN • QLC storage support for cyber recovery use cases • OSA to ESA migration flexibility • Remote datastore enhancements and encryption support • Cyber recovery and disaggregated storage clusters • vSAN security improvements in VCF 9.1 Links Mentioned More Capacity with VMware vSAN Compression and Global Deduplication in VCF 9.1 https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2026/05/07/vsan-compression-and-global-deduplication-in-vcf-9-1/ Cost-Efficient VMware vSAN ReadyNodes Certified for Cyber Recovery Deployments https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2026/05/07/vsan-readynodes-cyber-recovery/ Auto-RAID…","meta_description":"VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 introduces some of the biggest changes to vSAN in years, and in this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast, Pete and John…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3086,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/virtually-speaking-podcast-174853/episodes/what-s-new-in-vsan-for-vmware-cloud-foundation-9-1/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/virtually-speaking-podcast-174853/what-s-new-in-vsan-for-vmware-cloud-foundation-9-1.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}