diff --git a/recipes/gpt-oss-120b/trtllm/agg/deploy.yaml b/recipes/gpt-oss-120b/trtllm/agg/deploy.yaml
index f5c12f1af..f14466030 100644
--- a/recipes/gpt-oss-120b/trtllm/agg/deploy.yaml
+++ b/recipes/gpt-oss-120b/trtllm/agg/deploy.yaml
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ spec:
       envFromSecret: hf-token-secret
       volumeMounts:
         - name: model-cache
-          mountPoint: /root/.cache/huggingface
+          mountPoint: /opt/models
       sharedMemory:
         size: 80Gi
       extraPodSpec:
@@ -92,7 +92,9 @@ spec:
           - name: ENGINE_ARGS
             value: "/opt/dynamo/configs/config.yaml"
           - name: MODEL_PATH
-            value: "/root/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--openai--gpt-oss-120b/snapshots/b5c939de8f754692c1647ca79fbf85e8c1e70f8a"
+            value: "/opt/models/hub/models--openai--gpt-oss-120b/snapshots/b5c939de8f754692c1647ca79fbf85e8c1e70f8a"
+          - name: HF_HOME
+            value: /opt/models
           volumeMounts:
           - mountPath: /opt/dynamo/configs
             name: llm-config
diff --git a/recipes/llama-3-70b/vllm/agg/deploy.yaml b/recipes/llama-3-70b/vllm/agg/deploy.yaml
index f0d8a9394..2cca281b9 100644
--- a/recipes/llama-3-70b/vllm/agg/deploy.yaml
+++ b/recipes/llama-3-70b/vllm/agg/deploy.yaml
@@ -15,11 +15,14 @@ spec:
       dynamoNamespace: llama3-70b-agg
       volumeMounts:
         - name: model-cache
-          mountPoint: /root/.cache/huggingface
+          mountPoint: /opt/models
       extraPodSpec:
         mainContainer:
           image: nvcr.io/nvidia/ai-dynamo/vllm-runtime:my-tag
           workingDir: /workspace/examples/backends/vllm
+      envs:
+        - name: HF_HOME
+          value: /opt/models
       replicas: 1
     VllmPrefillWorker:
       componentType: worker
@@ -27,7 +30,7 @@ spec:
       envFromSecret: hf-token-secret
       volumeMounts:
         - name: model-cache
-          mountPoint: /root/.cache/huggingface
+          mountPoint: /opt/models
       sharedMemory:
         size: 20Gi
       extraPodSpec:
@@ -36,7 +39,9 @@ spec:
             - name: SERVED_MODEL_NAME
               value: "RedHatAI/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct-FP8-dynamic"
             - name: MODEL_PATH
-              value: "/root/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--RedHatAI--Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct-FP8-dynamic/snapshots/ddb4128556dfcff99e0c41aee159ea6c3e655dcd"
+              value: "/opt/models/hub/models--RedHatAI--Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct-FP8-dynamic/snapshots/ddb4128556dfcff99e0c41aee159ea6c3e655dcd"
+            - name: HF_HOME
+              value: /opt/models
           args:
           - "python3 -m dynamo.vllm --model $MODEL_PATH --served-model-name $SERVED_MODEL_NAME --tensor-parallel-size 4 --data-parallel-size 1 --disable-log-requests --gpu-memory-utilization 0.90 --no-enable-prefix-caching --block-size 128"
           command:
diff --git a/recipes/llama-3-70b/vllm/disagg-multi-node/deploy.yaml b/recipes/llama-3-70b/vllm/disagg-multi-node/deploy.yaml
index 33177e79f..94acf7c84 100644
--- a/recipes/llama-3-70b/vllm/disagg-multi-node/deploy.yaml
+++ b/recipes/llama-3-70b/vllm/disagg-multi-node/deploy.yaml
@@ -15,11 +15,14 @@ spec:
       dynamoNamespace: llama3-70b-disagg-mn
       volumeMounts:
         - name: model-cache
-          mountPoint: /root/.cache/huggingface
+          mountPoint: /opt/models
       extraPodSpec:
         mainContainer:
           image: nvcr.io/nvidia/ai-dynamo/vllm-runtime:my-tag
           workingDir: /workspace/examples/backends/vllm
+      envs:
+        - name: HF_HOME
+          value: /opt/models
       replicas: 1
     VllmPrefillWorker:
       componentType: worker
@@ -27,7 +30,7 @@ spec:
       envFromSecret: hf-token-secret
       volumeMounts:
         - name: model-cache
-          mountPoint: /root/.cache/huggingface
+          mountPoint: /opt/models
       sharedMemory:
         size: 80Gi
       extraPodSpec:
@@ -36,7 +39,9 @@ spec:
             - name: SERVED_MODEL_NAME
               value: "RedHatAI/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct-FP8-dynamic"
             - name: MODEL_PATH
-              value: "/root/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--RedHatAI--Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct-FP8-dynamic/snapshots/ddb4128556dfcff99e0c41aee159ea6c3e655dcd"
+              value: "/opt/models/hub/models--RedHatAI--Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct-FP8-dynamic/snapshots/ddb4128556dfcff99e0c41aee159ea6c3e655dcd"
+            - name: HF_HOME
+              value: /opt/models
           args:
           - "python3 -m dynamo.vllm --model $MODEL_PATH --served-model-name $SERVED_MODEL_NAME --tensor-parallel-size 8 --data-parallel-size 1 --disable-log-requests --is-prefill-worker --gpu-memory-utilization 0.95 --no-enable-prefix-caching --block-size 128"
           command:
@@ -56,7 +61,7 @@ spec:
       envFromSecret: hf-token-secret
       volumeMounts:
         - name: model-cache
-          mountPoint: /root/.cache/huggingface
+          mountPoint: /opt/models
       sharedMemory:
         size: 80Gi
       extraPodSpec:
@@ -65,7 +70,9 @@ spec:
             - name: SERVED_MODEL_NAME
               value: "RedHatAI/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct-FP8-dynamic"
             - name: MODEL_PATH
-              value: "/root/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--RedHatAI--Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct-FP8-dynamic/snapshots/ddb4128556dfcff99e0c41aee159ea6c3e655dcd"
+              value: "/opt/models/hub/models--RedHatAI--Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct-FP8-dynamic/snapshots/ddb4128556dfcff99e0c41aee159ea6c3e655dcd"
+            - name: HF_HOME
+              value: /opt/models
           args:
           - "python3 -m dynamo.vllm --model $MODEL_PATH --served-model-name $SERVED_MODEL_NAME --tensor-parallel-size 8 --data-parallel-size 1 --disable-log-requests --gpu-memory-utilization 0.90 --no-enable-prefix-caching --block-size 128"
           command:
diff --git a/recipes/llama-3-70b/vllm/disagg-single-node/deploy.yaml b/recipes/llama-3-70b/vllm/disagg-single-node/deploy.yaml
index 053adfa18..e67996f06 100644
--- a/recipes/llama-3-70b/vllm/disagg-single-node/deploy.yaml
+++ b/recipes/llama-3-70b/vllm/disagg-single-node/deploy.yaml
@@ -15,11 +15,14 @@ spec:
       dynamoNamespace: llama3-70b-disagg-sn
       volumeMounts:
         - name: model-cache
-          mountPoint: /root/.cache/huggingface
+          mountPoint: /opt/models
       extraPodSpec:
         mainContainer:
           image: nvcr.io/nvidia/ai-dynamo/vllm-runtime:my-tag
           workingDir: /workspace/examples/backends/vllm
+      envs:
+        - name: HF_HOME
+          value: /opt/models
       replicas: 1
     VllmPrefillWorker:
       componentType: worker
@@ -27,7 +30,7 @@ spec:
       envFromSecret: hf-token-secret
       volumeMounts:
         - name: model-cache
-          mountPoint: /root/.cache/huggingface
+          mountPoint: /opt/models
       sharedMemory:
         size: 80Gi
       extraPodSpec:
@@ -48,7 +51,9 @@ spec:
             - name: SERVED_MODEL_NAME
               value: "RedHatAI/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct-FP8-dynamic"
             - name: MODEL_PATH
-              value: "/root/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--RedHatAI--Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct-FP8-dynamic/snapshots/ddb4128556dfcff99e0c41aee159ea6c3e655dcd"
+              value: "/opt/models/hub/models--RedHatAI--Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct-FP8-dynamic/snapshots/ddb4128556dfcff99e0c41aee159ea6c3e655dcd"
+            - name: HF_HOME
+              value: /opt/models
           args:
           - "python3 -m dynamo.vllm --model $MODEL_PATH --served-model-name $SERVED_MODEL_NAME --tensor-parallel-size 2 --data-parallel-size 1 --disable-log-requests --is-prefill-worker --gpu-memory-utilization 0.95 --no-enable-prefix-caching --block-size 128"
           command:
@@ -68,7 +73,7 @@ spec:
       envFromSecret: hf-token-secret
       volumeMounts:
         - name: model-cache
-          mountPoint: /root/.cache/huggingface
+          mountPoint: /opt/models
       sharedMemory:
         size: 80Gi
       extraPodSpec:
@@ -89,7 +94,9 @@ spec:
             - name: SERVED_MODEL_NAME
               value: "RedHatAI/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct-FP8-dynamic"
             - name: MODEL_PATH
-              value: "/root/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--RedHatAI--Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct-FP8-dynamic/snapshots/ddb4128556dfcff99e0c41aee159ea6c3e655dcd"
+              value: "/opt/models/hub/models--RedHatAI--Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct-FP8-dynamic/snapshots/ddb4128556dfcff99e0c41aee159ea6c3e655dcd"
+            - name: HF_HOME
+              value: /opt/models
           args:
           - "python3 -m dynamo.vllm --model $MODEL_PATH --served-model-name $SERVED_MODEL_NAME --tensor-parallel-size 4 --data-parallel-size 1 --disable-log-requests --gpu-memory-utilization 0.90 --no-enable-prefix-caching --block-size 128"
           command:
diff --git a/recipes/qwen3-32b-fp8/trtllm/agg/deploy.yaml b/recipes/qwen3-32b-fp8/trtllm/agg/deploy.yaml
index 440091907..6dbca3a52 100644
--- a/recipes/qwen3-32b-fp8/trtllm/agg/deploy.yaml
+++ b/recipes/qwen3-32b-fp8/trtllm/agg/deploy.yaml
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ spec:
       envFromSecret: hf-token-secret
       volumeMounts:
         - name: model-cache
-          mountPoint: /root/.cache/huggingface
+          mountPoint: /opt/models
       sharedMemory:
         size: 80Gi
       extraPodSpec:
@@ -106,6 +106,8 @@ spec:
             value: "/opt/dynamo/configs/config.yaml"
           - name: MODEL_PATH
             value: "Qwen/Qwen3-32B-FP8"
+          - name: HF_HOME
+            value: "/opt/models"
           volumeMounts:
           - mountPath: /opt/dynamo/configs
             name: llm-config
diff --git a/recipes/qwen3-32b-fp8/trtllm/disagg/deploy.yaml b/recipes/qwen3-32b-fp8/trtllm/disagg/deploy.yaml
index ef7e63626..6c43df5e7 100644
--- a/recipes/qwen3-32b-fp8/trtllm/disagg/deploy.yaml
+++ b/recipes/qwen3-32b-fp8/trtllm/disagg/deploy.yaml
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ spec:
       envFromSecret: hf-token-secret
       volumeMounts:
         - name: model-cache
-          mountPoint: /root/.cache/huggingface
+          mountPoint: /opt/models
       sharedMemory:
         size: 80Gi
       extraPodSpec:
@@ -265,6 +265,8 @@ spec:
             value: "/opt/dynamo/configs/config-prefill.yaml"
           - name: MODEL_PATH
             value: "Qwen/Qwen3-32B-FP8"
+          - name: HF_HOME
+            value: "/opt/models"
           volumeMounts:
           - mountPath: /opt/dynamo/configs
             name: llm-config-prefill
@@ -287,7 +289,7 @@ spec:
       envFromSecret: hf-token-secret
       volumeMounts:
         - name: model-cache
-          mountPoint: /root/.cache/huggingface
+          mountPoint: /opt/models
       sharedMemory:
         size: 80Gi
       extraPodSpec:
@@ -324,6 +326,8 @@ spec:
             value: "/opt/dynamo/configs/config-decode.yaml"
           - name: MODEL_PATH
             value: "Qwen/Qwen3-32B-FP8"
+          - name: HF_HOME
+            value: "/opt/models"
           volumeMounts:
           - mountPath: /opt/dynamo/configs
             name: llm-config-decode