🎙️ Episode 2 of Between the Clouds is Live!
A deep dive into the latest VMware Cloud Foundation release, powerful new tools for your Proxmox and Docker home lab, and the dashboards bringing it all together.
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Episode 2: VCF 9, CoreControl, Docker Rollout, and ProxMenux for Proxmox in Your Home
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VCF 9, CoreControl, Docker Rollout, and ProxMenux for Your Home Lab
Episode 2 of Between the Clouds just dropped, and this one is packed with tools and insights for anyone building and optimizing their home lab or private cloud.
In this episode, I walk through the big updates in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0, including some really impressive performance gains and NVMe memory tiering that’s changing the TCO equation for private infrastructure.
But we’re not stopping at the enterprise side—there’s plenty for the home lab crowd too. I cover several new tools I’ve been hands-on with lately:
🔧 What You’ll Hear About in This Episode:
🔹 VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0
From NVMe memory tiering and GPU vMotion to global deduplication in vSAN ESA and confidential computing, this release is a major leap forward.
→ https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2025/06/vmware-cloud-foundation-vcf-9-0-released-new-features/
🔹 CoreControl
A self-hosted dashboard tailor-made for home labs. Real-time stats, service control, and a clean UI—all deployable via Docker or Podman.
→ Read the full write-up
🔹 Docker Rollout
Staged, health-checked container updates in your Docker Compose or Swarm stack. Say goodbye to blind up -d deployments.
→ [Project details & usage examples on the show]
🔹 ProxMenux
A command-line driven interface for managing Proxmox VE with style—VMs, containers, passthrough, backups, updates—you name it.
→ Read the blog post
→ GitHub repo
🔹 OmniTools (mentioned briefly)
A lightweight web app that bundles all kinds of JSON, PDF, image, and timestamp utilities—self-hosted and fully client-side.
→ Blog post
→ GitHub
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