We’ve expanded the VMC fleet with the new i7i (i7i.24xlarge) host type. Powered by Intel Emerald Rapids processors with PCIe Gen5 connectivity, it delivers the fleet’s highest single-core performance and memory bandwidth, making it well suited for latency-sensitive workloads and high-performance vSAN configurations. Key Technical Specs: This host brings a blend of usable options to…
A walkthrough of my self-hosted AI stack: Ollama, Open WebUI, ComfyUI, Whishper, n8n, Qdrant, SearxNG, and a full observability layer — all running on my own hardware with Docker Compose.
I am quite a heavy consumer of electricity at home. This is primarily driven by my lab but having a young son and two golden retrievers means more washing and drying. As a result I am always looking to try and reduce the electrical costs as it’s not cheap in the UK. Problem Sadly my…
Learn how to use Ansible to configure an Ubuntu VM for use with NVIDIA based AI workloads in vSphere
How to leverage Content Libraries to deploy into VMware Cloud on AWS faster.
I have spent the Christmas break making some improvements to this blog. A lot of these are in “the backend” These help improve the performance, Privacy, SEO, and I have also added some security best practices. Most of these changes were done more as an exercise than due to a specific requirement. I also had…
How to expand disks from the command line in Ubuntu. This is something I do fairly frequently, and I can never remember the steps. So I decided to write them down. 1. Rescan for disk size changes sudo tee /sys/class/block/sda/device/rescan 2. Extend the physical partition (if needed) sudo growpart /dev/sda 3 3. Resize the physical…
How to use the Amazon Time Sync Service in a VMC environment
How to safety shutdown a vSAN Environment
I wanted to automate the publishing of my blog from the authoring side to the public side. These are some of the improvements I made. What I started with My previous setup, involved a locally hosted WordPress instance. This runs in my homelab in an Ubuntu VM. This I will refer to as the authoring…
An intro on how I use SemaphoreUI to manage my Homelab
This is single page intended to collate every single feature of the current VMware Cloud on AWS hosts for easy comparison. All of this data Is publicly available. I have just collated into a single page I3.metal I3en.metal I4i.metal CPU Processor Name Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 Intel Xeon Platinum 8175 Intel Xeon 8375c No of…