esh-pve: NVIDIA 580.178.04 (open modules, DKMS) installed on the host from NVIDIA's .run and loaded live, no reboot. nvidia-persistenced unit creates the device nodes before pve-guests; the T400's vfio-pci ids and `blacklist nvidia` retired. playbooks/esh-pve-nvidia-host.yaml. esh-ml1: CT 110, unprivileged Debian 12, 10.0.50.80, GPU nodes via devN, NVIDIA userspace from the same .run (--no-kernel-modules), docker-ce + nvidia-container-toolkit (no-cgroups). playbooks/esh-ml1-lxc.yaml. Not in the vzdump job on purpose. DNS esh-ml1.esh.internal. stacks/embed-rerank: Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B :8001 + bge-reranker-v2-m3 :8013 on the same vLLM v0.24.0 digest and flags as fv-ml1. Measured parity: embed cosine FV-vs-ESH median 0.999908 (min 0.999772), inside both self-noise floors; rerank max |delta| 0.000145 vs floor 0.000181, identical ranking. litellm: qwen3-embedding and reranker gain an esh-ml1 deployment at order 2 behind fv-ml1 (order 1). Order fallback proven with throwaway groups: refused primary +0.15 s, host-down primary ~18.7 s per call, dead-only 500. Also: repaired the DB-only alias reranker-a3-bge-v2-m3, dead since the fv-ml1 relocation (still named 10.250.50.54); documented the third unkillable homepage wedge on esh-docker-vm.
docs/
Navigation map for the documentation tree. New session? Read
orientation.md first — it's the narrative overview
of the fleet, backup architecture, governing principles, and gotchas,
and it points at everything else.
Tree
docs/
├── orientation.md # start here — fleet overview + where-to-look guide
├── runbooks/ # ops runbooks (recovery, deployment phases)
│ ├── disaster-recovery.md
│ ├── nh3-prune-ritual.md
│ └── pbs-deployment.md
└── pfi/ # PFI-specific reference (services, models, VMs)
├── docker-stack.md
├── model-list.md
├── proxmox-vms.md
├── recommended-model-settings.md
├── vm-102-matrix-appservice.md
└── vm-102-matrix-synapse.md
What goes where
runbooks/— step-by-step ops procedures. Anything you'd reach for during an incident or while standing up new infrastructure. Examples: disaster recovery (blast-radius tiers + restoration steps), PBS deployment (9-phase rollout). New runbook → new file here.pfi/— PFI-specific reference material that's too narrow for the top-level CLAUDE.md but doesn't change incident response. AI model inventory, recommended inference settings, Matrix bridge config, Proxmox VM map. New stable reference → new file here.- Top-level (
docs/orientation.md,docs/README.md) — narrative guides about the workspace itself, not about specific infra.
Cross-references
- Fleet topology + servers table: top-level
CLAUDE.md. - Open work + recent milestones: top-level
STATUS.md. - Durable cross-session facts:
~/.claude/projects/-home-lkraven-development-eshpfi-management/memory/.
Conventions
- Markdown, GitHub-flavored. CommonMark renders fine in most viewers.
- File names are lowercase-kebab-case, descriptive. No dates in filenames — git history covers that.
- One topic per file. If a file grows past ~500 lines, look for a natural split before adding more.
- No checked-in binaries or checksums. Build/release artifacts belong
in a build pipeline or
tools/, notdocs/.