OpIntel: One Console to Manage VMware & Proxmox Together

A preview of a product in active development

If you run virtualization today, you probably run two of everything. Since Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware reset licensing to per-core subscriptions, the VMware estate that has carried production for years now sits next to a growing Proxmox footprint — and each comes with its own console, its own metrics, its own quirks. Every capacity question, every “why is this slow,” every inventory pull becomes two investigations instead of one.

OpIntel is being built to collapse that back into a single job. It’s an AI-enriched layer that sits on top of both VMware (vSphere/ESXi) and Proxmox (PVE) and treats them as one estate — one health score, one list of what needs attention, one place to ask a question and get a real answer. Think of it as a single pane of glass for a mixed estate, and a vCenter-style view that doesn’t stop at the VMware boundary.
Here’s what that looks like in practice, framed around the things you’re actually trying to get done.

“Just tell me if everything’s okay.”

Unified health score across VMware and Proxmox

Most mornings, that’s the entire question. OpIntel answers it before you’ve finished your coffee: a single health score, the number of issues that actually need a human, and a clear split between capacity, performance, configuration, and lifecycle problems so you immediately know what kind of day it’s going to be.

Hosts, VMs, and Proxmox containers all roll up into the same view. There’s no “now switch to the other console” — the platform boundary just disappears.

And when something does need attention, it’s written like a colleague wrote it, not a monitoring system. A datastore low on space doesn’t just turn red; it names the datastore, gives you the exact free percentage, and tells you your options — migrate VMs, add storage, or clean up orphaned files.

OpIntel unified health dashboard showing a single health score across VMware vSphere hosts and Proxmox nodes.

“Something’s slow — find it fast.”

Cross-platform performance troubleshooting: VMware CPU Ready next to Proxmox node load

This is where running two platforms usually hurts the most, because contention looks different on each one. OpIntel speaks both dialects fluently.

Pick any two entities and put them head to head — overlaid or side by side — over any window from the last hour to the last month. The built-in checks are tuned for the questions you’d actually ask: a CPU health check that exposes contention through ready time, co-stop, and wait; a memory pressure check covering host-versus-guest memory, ballooning, and swapping; plus disk and network views.
The point is that VMware specifics like CPU Ready sit right next to Proxmox node load and container metrics, so you diagnose a noisy neighbor the same way no matter where it lives. And because anomalies are detected continuously, you often don’t go looking at all — the problem surfaces on its own, already tagged with a suggested fix.

Side-by-side performance comparison of a VMware VM’s CPU Ready against a Proxmox node’s load in OpIntel.

“Don’t let me run out of room — and stop me from over-buying.”

Capacity forecasting and resource reclamation for vSphere and Proxmox

Capacity is two problems wearing the same coat: not enough later, and too much already.

OpIntel forecasts host CPU and memory out to 3, 7, 14, and 30 days from real collected history, so you see the wall coming with time to act. Then it works the other direction — surfacing the resources you’re already paying for and not using. Datastores get a one-click Scan & Clean to recover space from orphaned files, and overcommit ratios make it obvious where you’ve stretched too thin.

So the same screen answers both “when do I need to buy?” and “what can I reclaim first?” — which is usually the cheaper question, and a pointed one now that VMware capacity is billed per core.

OpIntel capacity forecast chart projecting host CPU and memory usage 3, 7, 14, and 30 days out.

OpIntel resource reclamation view showing overcommit ratios and reclaimable space across datastores.

“Stop making me fix the same thing by hand.”

Automated remediation runbooks (Autopilot) across compute, storage, and memory

The high-CPU VM. The datastore creeping past 80%. You’ve solved these a hundred times, and you’ll solve them a hundred more — unless the fix gets captured once.

That’s what Autopilot does. It runs continuous health checks across storage, compute, inventory, and memory, then turns the responses into runbooks — automated, repeatable playbooks bound to a trigger condition. Sustained high CPU on a Proxmox VM can drive a runbook that live-migrates it to a less-loaded node. A VMware datastore crossing a critical threshold can drive a cleanup. Each runbook is graded by a safety tier, so “safe” actions can run freely while riskier ones wait for a human.

Best of all, you don’t have to author them from scratch — the runbooks are AI-generated from your environment, and there’s a full execution history so nothing happens in the dark.

OpIntel Autopilot view listing AI-generated runbooks with safety tiers and execution history.

“Can I just ask?”

Conversational AI assistant for your live VMware and Proxmox environment

Yes. Threaded through all of it is OpIntel AI, a conversational assistant powered by an LLM like Claude or Ollama. Instead of clicking through panels, you type “what needs my attention today?” and get an answer grounded in your live environment.

The same intelligence runs underneath everything else, too — it’s what writes the remediation suggestions on anomalies and generates the runbooks. The AI isn’t a chat box bolted onto a dashboard; it’s the layer turning raw telemetry into plain-language decisions.

OpIntel AI assistant answering “what needs my attention today?” with results from a live mixed estate.

And when the auditors come knocking

Change-tracked inventory and CSV export for compliance

One quieter benefit worth calling out: OpIntel keeps a full, change-tracked inventory of every VM, host, cluster, datastore, and network — exportable to CSV on demand. The next time someone asks “what changed last month” or “give me the full VM list with specs,” it’s a click, not an afternoon.

OpIntel change-tracked inventory of VMs, hosts, clusters, datastores, and networks with one-click CSV export.

Where it stands

OpIntel is early and under active development, so expect the depth to keep growing — richer forecasting, more runbook templates, broader automation, and a more capable AI are all on the way. But the shape is already clear, and it’s a useful one: treat a mixed VMware-and-Proxmox environment as a single system, and use AI to turn telemetry into decisions and actions.

If you’ve been quietly absorbing the cost of running two platforms at once — especially under VMware’s new licensing — this is a product worth watching.

Frequently asked questions

Can I manage VMware and Proxmox from one console?

Yes. OpIntel sits on top of both VMware (vSphere/ESXi) and Proxmox VE and presents them as a single estate — one health score, one inventory, and one place to investigate performance and capacity, without switching between vCenter and the Proxmox UI.

Is there a vCenter alternative that also covers Proxmox?

Most Proxmox management tools cover Proxmox only. OpIntel is built to span both platforms at once, which makes it useful during a VMware-to-Proxmox migration when you’re running the two side by side and need a single operational view across them.

What’s the best way to monitor a mixed VMware and Proxmox estate?

Look for a tool that normalizes metrics across both platforms so the same workflow applies everywhere — for example, VMware CPU Ready shown next to Proxmox node load. OpIntel adds continuous anomaly detection and plain-language remediation suggestions on top of that unified view.

Does OpIntel help with capacity planning and cost control?

It forecasts host CPU and memory 3, 7, 14, and 30 days out from collected history, and surfaces reclaimable resources — orphaned files, overcommitted hosts — so you can answer both “when do I need to buy?” and “what can I reclaim first?” before spending on more hardware or licensing.

Can it automate routine remediation?

Yes — Autopilot turns recurring fixes into AI-generated runbooks bound to trigger conditions (for example, live-migrating a high-CPU Proxmox VM or cleaning a full VMware datastore), each graded by a safety tier with full execution history.