The Five Stages of VMware Grief (and Why It’s Time for Acceptance)
Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. After 16 years in the VMware ecosystem, here's why I think it's time to leave before vSphere 8 support ends.
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Turning MetaMCP off without breaking anyone’s mcp clients
The Zerto Docs MCP, along with the other MCP servers I’ve been running have grown in usage from a couple hits per week to over 5000 hits per week. They have been live since May of 2026, and during that time I’ve noticed a lot of things I would like to have from an MCP… -
YaMCP – HPE ProLiant Docs MCP Server, Gen8 Through Gen13
First off, I think I just coined a phrase! YaMCP, “Yet Another MCP” … Is anyone else using that yet? LOL There are a couple of used HPE servers in my homelab: a DL385p Gen8 and, newest, an ML350 Gen10. Every time I want to change something in one of them, I end up in… -
Serenity Now: Post-Recovery Scripts That Reach Inside the Guest
Nov 4, 2026 · By Seth Fuhr You can run any script inside a recovered VM from a Zerto post-recovery script on the ZVM Appliance, even without WinRM, a domain or a network path to the guest. The answer is PowerCLI’s Invoke-VMScript, which sends the script through vCenter and VMware Tools instead of the network.… -
chatJPt Update: a Tribal Knowledge Switch, and Why a Search Kept Answering the Wrong Question
chatJPt (chat.jpaul.me) answers Zerto, HPE Morpheus, HVM, and OpsRamp questions from the official docs. That’s mostly true. The docs servers behind it also carry a layer of curated material that isn’t on help.zerto.com: hand-written notes on Zerto REST API gotchas, version pairing rules, per-platform capabilities, upgrade traps, and the working code samples from Zerto’s public… -
zDeploy: a one-binary wizard for deploying the Zerto appliance on HPE HVM
If you’ve installed Zerto for HPE Morpheus / HVM (VM Essentials), you know the appliance doesn’t show up as a nice single OVA you point a wizard at. Zerto for HVM ships as a zip of qcow2 disks and the documentation has you build everything around those disks by hand in Morpheus. That process seems… -
chat.jpaul.me: Ask Zerto, HPE Morpheus, and OpsRamp Questions From a Browser
Back in May I wrote about my Zerto Docs MCP server, the thing that lets Claude, Copilot, or Cursor answer Zerto questions straight from help.zerto.com with citations. It works well, but it has one catch: you need an AI client that speaks MCP, and you need to know how to add a custom connector to… -
The Full Loop: One Feature, End to End (and the End of the Copy-Paste Problem)
The finale of The Workflow. We take one small feature from prompt to running -
Letting the AI Off the Leash (Without Getting Bitten)
Unit 5 of The Workflow puts agents inside your pipeline, from AI that -
Giving the AI Hands: Extending It Into Your Real Systems
Unit 4 of The Workflow. How to connect AI to your real tools and data
The Five Stages of VMware Grief (and Why It’s Time for Acceptance)
Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. After 16 years in the VMware ecosystem, here's why I think it's time to leave before vSphere 8 support ends.
Turning MetaMCP off without breaking anyone’s mcp clients
The Zerto Docs MCP, along with the other MCP servers I’ve been running have grown in usage from a couple hits per week to over 5000 hits per week. They have been live since May of 2026, and during that…
YaMCP – HPE ProLiant Docs MCP Server, Gen8 Through Gen13
First off, I think I just coined a phrase! YaMCP, “Yet Another MCP” … Is anyone else using that yet? LOL There are a couple of used HPE servers in my homelab: a DL385p Gen8 and, newest, an ML350 Gen10.…
Serenity Now: Post-Recovery Scripts That Reach Inside the Guest
Nov 4, 2026 · By Seth Fuhr You can run any script inside a recovered VM from a Zerto post-recovery script on the ZVM Appliance, even without WinRM, a domain or a network path to the guest. The answer is…
chatJPt Update: a Tribal Knowledge Switch, and Why a Search Kept Answering the Wrong Question
chatJPt (chat.jpaul.me) answers Zerto, HPE Morpheus, HVM, and OpsRamp questions from the official docs. That’s mostly true. The docs servers behind it also carry a layer of curated material that isn’t on help.zerto.com: hand-written notes on Zerto REST API gotchas,…
zDeploy: a one-binary wizard for deploying the Zerto appliance on HPE HVM
If you’ve installed Zerto for HPE Morpheus / HVM (VM Essentials), you know the appliance doesn’t show up as a nice single OVA you point a wizard at. Zerto for HVM ships as a zip of qcow2 disks and the…
chat.jpaul.me: Ask Zerto, HPE Morpheus, and OpsRamp Questions From a Browser
Back in May I wrote about my Zerto Docs MCP server, the thing that lets Claude, Copilot, or Cursor answer Zerto questions straight from help.zerto.com with citations. It works well, but it has one catch: you need an AI client…
DIY Precision Agriculture: Fertilizer Monitor with Raspberry Pi Pico Part 3
Part 2 went up on April 28, 2025, right after the corn went in. I ended it with a list of things I wanted to fix and a promise that Part 3 would cover fertilizer application. That took a little…
The Full Loop: One Feature, End to End (and the End of the Copy-Paste Problem)
The finale of The Workflow. We take one small feature from prompt to running
Letting the AI Off the Leash (Without Getting Bitten)
Unit 5 of The Workflow puts agents inside your pipeline, from AI that