Automated VCF 9 Offline Depot
One Bash script turns a fresh Ubuntu VM into a VCF 9 Offline Depot: Traefik, Nginx, basic auth, and Let’s Encrypt wildcard certs via Cloudflare DNS.
- Artificial Intelligence | Automation | Docker | Homelab | NVIDIA | Traefik | VMware
My Self-Hosted AI Stack: Infrastructure Deep Dive (Part 2)
Part 2 of my self-hosted AI stack series. I cover container resource sizing, dual-network isolation via Traefik and Cloudflare Tunnels, and every database powering the stack — PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Redis, Qdrant, MinIO, MongoDB, SQLite, Prometheus, and Jaeger — plus the backup strategy for each.
New VMware Cloud on AWS Host: i7i.metal-24xl
We’ve expanded the VMC fleet with the new i7i (i7i.
- Artificial Intelligence | Automation | Docker | Homelab | NVIDIA | Traefik | VMware
My Self-Hosted AI Stack: Architecture Overview (Part 1)
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.
- Ansible | Artificial Intelligence | Containers | Devops | Homelab | NVIDIA | Traefik | VMware
Automating the Deployment of my Homelab AI Infrastructure
Learn how to use Ansible to configure an Ubuntu VM for use with NVIDIA based AI workloads in vSphere
Using Content Libraries in VMC to deploy software faster
How to leverage Content Libraries to deploy into VMware Cloud on AWS faster.
VMware Cloud on AWS Time Sync & NTP Configuration
How to use the Amazon Time Sync Service in a VMC environment
vSAN Cluster Shutdown – Orchestration
How to safety shutdown a vSAN Environment
An in-depth look at VMware Cloud on AWS hosts
This is single page intended to collate every single feature of the current VMware Cloud on AWS hosts for easy comparison.
VMware Cloud on AWS Storage Sizing Quick Reference Guide
Quick reference guide to the available storage resources that you get in VMware Cloud on AWS
- TrueNAS Scale | VMware | vSAN | vSphere
How to Run ZFS on VMware vSphere: Setup Guide and Best Practices
Introduction Copy on Write Disk IDs Trim Introduction I have run a number of systems using ZFS since the earliest days of my homelab using Nexenta, all the way back in 2010.
New Homelab Nodes: SuperMicro BigTwin for VMware & Nutanix
I recently decided to update some of my homelab hosts and I managed to do this at very little cost by offloading 2 of my Supermicro e200’s to fellow vExpert Paul .
