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MS-A2 VCF 9.0 Lab: Configuring Data Services Manager (DSM) for VMware Private AI Services (PAIS)

09.25.2025 by William Lam // Leave a Comment

In this blog post, we will walk through the configuration steps for setting up Data Services Manager (DSM) and connecting that to VCF Automation (VCFA), allowing us to deploy a Vector Database which is a requirement for configuring VMware Private AI Services (PAIS).

Requirements:

  • VCF Automation (VCFA) Organization configured with Namespace
  • VMware Private AI Services (PAIS) deployed

Additional References:

  • Installing DSM official documentation
  • Using DSM with VCFA official documentation

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Categories // Private AI Services Tags // DSM, VCF 9.0

MS-A2 VCF 9.0 Lab: Installing VMware Private AI Services (PAIS)

09.24.2025 by William Lam // Leave a Comment

Over the past couple of months, I have used my minimal VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 lab to explore nearly every major VCF 9.0 capability including NVMe Tiering, vSAN ESA, NSX VPC, vSphere Supervisor Services like vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS), VM Service & ArgoCD, VCF Operations (VCFO), VCF Automation (VCFA), VMware AVI Load Balancer, Data Services Manager (DSM) and the list goes on and on! 😅

One area that I have been interested in diving deeper into is with our Private AI offerings and with the announcement of VMware Private AI Services (PAIS) now included as part of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), it gave me that additional motivation to see if I could also run PAIS in my lab!

As part of my exploration, I will be documenting my experience in a mini-blog series on installing and configuring PAIS to deploy an AI Agent using an NVIDIA GPU with DirectPath I/O. Since NVIDIA vGPU requires an NVIDIA AI for Enterprise (NVAIE) license, this approach can especially be useful for lab and learning purposes.

Requirements:

  • VCF 9.0 environment deployed
  • NSX VPC configured with Centralized Transit Gateway
  • vSphere Supervisor configured with NSX VPC
  • VCF Automation configured to support vSphere Supervisor with (All Apps) Tenant Portal

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Categories // Private AI Services, VMware Cloud Foundation Tags // VCF 9.0

Using vSphere 9.0 API to retrieve vGPU & DirectPath Profiles

09.16.2025 by William Lam // Leave a Comment

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 has introduced a number of enhancements when consuming vGPU and DirectPath Profiles, which are available in both the vSphere UI and vSphere API for automation purposes. While answering some vSphere API questions from a colleague regarding vGPU and DirectPath Profiles, I figured it would be useful to share the vSphere API specifics in how to use the API to retrieve these resources and better yet, some code that you can use immediately!
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Categories // Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA, Private AI Services, vSphere 9.0 Tags // DirectPath, VCF 9.0, vGPU

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