I had a great time attending the inaugural VMUG Connect 2025 in St. Louis this past April. Like many others, the event was a great way to connect and share our passion for VMware technologies with both new and familiar faces from our community.
Here are a few great write-ups from attendees of the conference:
- Daniel Kriger - VMUG Connect St. Louis 2025 (who I got to meet in person as we often chatted on social media)
- Daniel Keer - I Went to VMUG Connect 2025
- Maarten Van Driessen - VMUG Connect 2025
- Justin Sider - VMUG Connect 2025 Connect Four Takeaways
In addition to the networking, there was a ton of great content from the community across the different technical and career building tracks.
For my breakout, I wanted to show how you can deploy a minimal VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 5.x environment on a single physical ESXi host for development and lab purposes, with the goal of being able to explore and learn about VCF using a minimal amount of compute and storage resources.
As promised, I have published the following Github repository that contains all the details that you would need to set this up using the exact or simliar hardware configuration.