Can VMware Cloud Foundation run its own AI model, keep the inference inside the private cloud, and then use that model to answer real questions about the infrastructure? That was the question I wanted to answer in my VCF 9.1.1 lab. The answer is yes, but getting from “I have an NVIDIA GPU in an ESXi host” to “VMware Intelligent Assist is querying my vCenter through a local Qwen model” involves much more than deploying one Kubernetes pod. In this article, we will build the entire stack from the ground up. We will prepare the GPU, create the VM and…