About Event

Sydney VMUG is hosting a multi-session Lunch & Learn at the VMware Sydney office on Wednesday 19 August 2026, 12:00–13:30. Two real-world Broadcom sessions, back-to-back, with dedicated Q&A after each:

• Main Session: A live AI Chatbot demo on VMware Cloud Foundation and Tanzu.
• Second Session: A financial services customer story on migrating from another vendor's Fibre Channel storage to vSAN ESA.

Built for engineers, admins, architects, DevOps practitioners and AI practitioners running production VCF, storage, AI and HCI estates. Pizza and non-alcoholic drinks served on-site. Free to register.

Agenda

Weclome & Introduction: 12:10-12:15 - 5 Minutes

• Ryan McBride - Sydney VMUG Leader
• Sarge Siddiqui - Broadcom-side lead, Sydney VMUG Chapter

Session 1: Main Session: 12:15 - 12:50 - 35 minutes (followed by Session 1 Q&A 12:50–13:00)

Title: From Zero to Hero: An Application's AI-Ready Journey on VMware VCF and Tanzu

Description: As AI capabilities increasingly integrate into our professional and personal lives, understanding the underlying infrastructure is more important than ever. This demo-driven session explores how to leverage a combination of VMware and Tanzu solutions to evolve an application's capability using AI-aligned features. We will demonstrate this using an AI Chatbot, showing how it interacts with and controls the VMware platform it resides on while demystifying key AI terminology through practical examples.

What you'll see:

• An AI Chatbot built on VMware Cloud Foundation + Tanzu.
• The Chatbot interacting with and controlling the underlying VMware platform
• Key AI terminology grounded in working examples not slideware
• A practical path from "zero" (no AI capabilities) to "hero" (AI-ready application) on VCF and Tanzu

Presenters

• David Lloyd Broadcom Tanzu
• Roman Tarnavski Broadcom Tanzu

Session 2 Customer story: 13:00 - 13:20 - 20 Minutes (followed by Session 2 Q&A 13:20–13:30)

Title: Migration from another vendor's Fibre Channel storage to vSAN ESA a financial services customer story

Description: A real-world migration case study from a financial services customer who moved from a Fibre Channel storage array to vSAN ESA. The presenters will walk through how they supported the customer across the engagement phases and share the challenges encountered along the way.

What's covered:

• Ideation how the migration was scoped
• Proof of Concept what was tested, what worked, what didn't
• Benchmarking measuring vSAN ESA against the existing Fibre Channel estate
• Go-Live what production cutover actually looked like
• The challenges honest reflections on what surfaced and how the team navigated it

Presenters

• Jay Arjunan Broadcom Software
• Praphul Sabbathi Broadcom Software