Marco Mattei
Marco is our all-rounder and builds his own keyboards.
- Experience
- 5 years of IT experience
- Languages
- DE · EN
- 5 years IT services provider
Awards
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Broadcom Knight - VMware vExpert
Focus areas
- Data Center Architecture
- VMware Cloud Foundation
- Network Virtualization & Security
- Kubernetes & Cloud Native
- Disaster Recovery
- Automation & Infrastructure as Code
- Server Virtualization
Technologies
Further education
- Information Technologist, Federal Diploma of Vocational Education and Training, Systems Engineering (career changer)
Certifications 34 · verified via Credly
VMware Certified Advanced Professional - VMware Cloud Foundation Architect 2026
VMware Certified Advanced Professional - VMware Cloud Foundation Automation 2026
VMware Certified Advanced Professional - VMware Cloud Foundation VKS 2026
VMware Certified Advanced Professional - VMware Cloud Foundation Networking 2026
Broadcom Partner Certification - Broadcom Knight - VCF Networking 2025
Broadcom Partner Certification - Broadcom Software Knight - vSphere 2025 A selection. 28 further active certifications are not shown.
Project history 3 periods
- 2026
Financial Sector
System Engineer
Concept and setup of a Kubernetes platform based on VCF 9 and VMware VKS for Professional Services on behalf of Broadcom.
Service Provider
System Engineer
Setup of a new cloud platform based on VCF 9 with focus on NSX VPC networking and VCF Automation for Self Service
- 2025
Public Administration
System Engineer
Support in the further development of the Kubernetes platform based on VMware VKS
Financial Sector
System Engineer
Design and setup of vSphere and vSAN ESA clusters for VDI environment
- 2024
Research & Development
System Engineer
DevSecOps support for integration and setup of the VMware VKS platform and deployment of applications.
IT Services
System Engineer
Support in building a fully automated environment for setting up VVF and VCF pods, air-gapped with Ansible.
2021 - 2023
Implementation and operation of datacenter infrastructures for customers from public administration, healthcare, industry, research and defense: multi-site vSphere and vSAN clusters with FC-SAN, HPE Alletra and Nimble dHCI including migration of approx. 800 VMs with Zerto, VMware Cloud Foundation with Tanzu and NSX, operational support for NSX and containers, setup of a lab with vSphere, Horizon VDI, vSAN and Active Directory as deputy project lead, as well as Microsoft projects with Azure AD, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Active Directory.
Posts
VVF 9.0 Supervisor with the Foundation Load Balancer
The 9.0 release of VMware vSphere Foundation brings new ways to deploy the vSphere Supervisor. One of them is the built-in Foundation Load Balancer.
Tanzu default storage class
I was recently playing with Helm charts on Tanzu Kubernetes clusters and ran into a few problems. Here is a quick tip if you hit something similar.
Install vCenter without DNS
A lot of people believe you cannot install vCenter without a DNS server in the environment. Not quite. It is not ideal, but it works.
Build your own Homelab – Part 2
In this installment, I will walk you through the initial steps of configuring the basic infrastructure required for my nested vSphere homelab with NSX and Tanzu.
Build your own Homelab – Part 1
In this blog series, I want to take you on the adventures I undertook to build my own nested NSX & Tanzu homelab. This endeavor encountered some issues, as expected from a nested configuration.

