NPUs in Mini PCs are Worthless for a Home Lab, Here's WhyNPUs in Mini PCs are Worthless for a Home Lab,...Mini PCs boast NPU TOPs, but in a home lab they add nothing. Learn why NPUs don’t help Ollama, LM Studio, or real AI workloads today.Broadcom Social Media Advocacy

Adding an Existing VCF Instance to a VCF Fleet _ lifeofbrianoc.comAdding an Existing VCF Instance to a VCF Fleet...This is a scenario that is not covered very well in our current VCF 9.0 docs (I am working to rectify that), where a customer has more than 1 existing VCF 5.x instance and they want to... Continue Reading →

From vSphere to VCF 9.0: GCI’s Journey to a Modern Private CloudFrom vSphere to VCF 9.0: GCI’s Journey to a...At VMware Explore 2025, host Pete Flecha sits down with Dave Linthicum, Rick Walsworth, and James Schorr, Sr. Director of Enterprise Cloud Platforms at GCI—Alaska’s largest telecom provider—to discuss GCI’s journey from vSphere to VMware Cloud... Continue Reading →

Strategic Partnerships Powering VCF: Canonical, NVIDIA & AMD at VMware Explore 2...Strategic Partnerships Powering VCF: Canonical,...At VMware Explore 2025, host Pete Flecha speaks with Prashanth Shenoy, VP of Product Marketing at Broadcom, about the strategic partnerships shaping the future of VMware Cloud Foundation.Broadcom Social Media Advocacy

VCF Operations 9 Fleet Manager Install Binary Download Hung _ brockpeterson.comVCF Operations 9 Fleet Manager Install Binary...VCF Operations 9 is deployed, Fleet Manager is deployed, and I'm downloading Install Binaries to the Fleet Manager Depot. All is well, until I see this...for days.I went looking for an API endpoint for the download, maybe I could... Continue Reading →

Deploy VMware Private AI on HGX servers with Broadcom Ethernet NetworkingDeploy VMware Private AI on HGX servers with...AI and Generative AI (Gen AI) require substantial infrastructure, and tasks like fine-tuning, customization, deployment, and querying can strain resources. Scaling up these operations becomes problematic without adequate infrastructure. Additionally, diverse compliance and legal requirements [...]Broadcom Social Media... Continue Reading →

HomeLab Stage LXXIV: More Dell Servers - VCDX #181 Marc HuppertHomeLab Stage LXXIV: More Dell Servers - VCDX...After my last posting: HomeLab Stage LXXIII: New networks, I decided to invest again into more (a lot more) servers….. I was able to acquire 22 x Dell R740 servers with SkyLake CPUs (Cascade Lake Upgrade possible). What... Continue Reading →

🔒 Micro-segmenting My VCF Home Lab – vArchitected🔒 Micro-segmenting My VCF Home Lab – vArchitectedThe power to secure workloads at their very core is what excites me most. With technologies like the vDefend Firewall, we can stop threat actors in their tracks, long before they ever touch an operating system. This isn’t security bolted on... Continue Reading →

Deploying Minimal VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 LabDeploying Minimal VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 LabGet hands on with VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 and explore all the exciting new features and capabilities of the VCF platform even if you do not have production-grade hardware and the associated compute, storage, and networking resources. Speakers: Alan Renouf, William LamBroadcom Social... Continue Reading →

Architecting Private Cloud Consumption with VCF Automation (VMware Explore 2025)Architecting Private Cloud Consumption with VCF...Explore how VMware Cloud Foundation Automation transforms infrastructure management into a modern self-service cloud model. Learn deployment patterns, tenancy models, and multi-tenancy best practices to scale your private cloud with ease. 🎤 Speakers: Shree Das, Stephen EvanchikBroadcom Social Media Advocacy