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Serenity Now: Post-Recovery Scripts That Reach Inside the Guest

Posted on November 4, 2026 by Seth Fuhr | 0 Comments

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

Posted on November 2, 2026 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

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

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…