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zDeploy: a one-binary wizard for deploying the Zerto appliance on HPE HVM

Posted on October 20, 2026 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

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

Posted on October 8, 2026 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

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…

Why I replaced MetaMCP with a custom MCP gateway I designed

Posted on August 12, 2026 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Recently I started moving my MCP tools from a MetaMCP instance to a new MCP gateway call torii. Torii is a replacement for MetaMCP that I wrote the requirements for (I won’t attempt to say I coded it because that isn’t the world we live in anymore). Let’s talk about the differences and why I…

zDeploy: a one-binary wizard for deploying the Zerto appliance on HPE HVM

chat.jpaul.me: Ask Zerto, HPE Morpheus, and OpsRamp Questions From a Browser

The Full Loop: One Feature, End to End (and the End of the Copy-Paste Problem)

Letting the AI Off the Leash (Without Getting Bitten)

Giving the AI Hands: Extending It Into Your Real Systems

Why I replaced MetaMCP with a custom MCP gateway I designed

AI Made Writing Code Cheap. Now Automate the Catching.

Your AI Just Force-Pushed Over a Day of Work. Now What?

Half Your Teammates Aren’t Human (and the Loop Doesn’t Care)

The AI’s Code Looks Right. That’s the Problem.

My Next Speaking Engagement

Justifying the Cost of Virtual Desktops

HP Storage TechDay (January 2012)

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HP Storage TechDay

Apple’s new Textbooks

Veeam NFR Keys for VMware and Microsoft Certified Professionals

Virtualization Project Worksheet

Veeam 6 Direct SAN Backups Fail

EMC VNX5300: My First Encounter