· Dennis Zimmer
vSphere Express returns and an open source VDDK appears
VMware came back to small server virtualization, and a cloud architect built a replacement for a migration library VMware pulled.
· Dennis
From Alert to Answer: Combining Opvizor, MCP and Claude Code
Combine Opvizor monitoring, its MCP integration and the govc skill for Claude Code to move from alert to a reviewable vSphere investigation plan, faster.
· Dennis
VM-0001 Has a 91-Day Snapshot: Anonymising vSphere Data Before It Reaches Claude
A follow-up to the govc skill for Claude Code, a pseudonymising wrapper that replaces every VM name, IP, MAC and UUID with a stable token before the model ever sees it, and rehydrates them on your screen.
· Dennis
Teaching Claude Code to Speak vSphere: A govc Skill for VMware Admins
How a Claude Code skill teaches Claude to run govc safely, read-only reporting, snapshot audits, and guardrails before any destructive vSphere command
· Dennis
OpIntel: One Console to Manage VMware & Proxmox Together
OpIntel unifies VMware (vSphere/ESXi) and Proxmox into one AI-powered console - one health score, capacity forecasting, and automated remediation across both estates.
· Dennis
Testing vSphere and Proxmox Integrations With vcsim and mock-pve-api
A practical guide to testing vSphere and Proxmox integrations with vcsim and mock-pve-api, setup, real bugs surfaced, and CI integration patterns.
· Dennis
Introducing govcai: An Open Source AI-Optimized Wrapper for VMware govc
govcai, open source wrapper that makes VMware govc output LLM-ready. Output reduction, risk gates, structured errors, LLM optimized. Drop-in replacement for govc in AI agent workflows.
· Dennis
Optimizing VMware CLI Tools Like govc for LLM Agents
govc dumps 12,000 tokens per call. With 5 optimizations, structured output, field filtering, semantic routing, cut that to 80. No MCP rewrite required.
· Dennis
Why MCP Beats CLI for VMware AI Agents: Lessons from AgentOpvizor
AI agents managing VMware infrastructure waste 10x more tokens with CLI than MCP. See benchmarks, architecture patterns, and how AgentOpvizor solves this.
· Dennis
Use BASH and vSphere REST API for Automated VM Configuration Reporting
Learn to monitor VMware vSphere configurations with a bash script and REST API. Collect VM details like CPU, memory & disk capacity - no extra tools needed
· Dennis
Use Python to Access the VMware vSphere REST API and Tanzu
Learn how to collect vSphere VM performance metrics using Python and REST. A practical guide for collecting real-time CPU, memory, disk, and network stats.
· Dennis
Using Opvizor/Cloud to Monitor a Python Gunicorn Application with StatsD Instrumentation
Monitor a Python Gunicorn application using StatsD instrumentation using Opvizor/Cloud.