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claude-vsphere-skill

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A Claude Code skill that enables natural-language vSphere administration via govc, with read‑first safety, snapshot audits, and root‑cause analysis.

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Apache-2.0

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2026-07-30

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Why it is worth attention

It turns Claude into a vSphere administrator with built‑in safety rules (read‑only first, confirmation for destructive ops, dry‑run mentality) and includes a simulator‑based test suite, cross‑platform support, and an optional anonymisation wrapper for sensitive environments.

Who it is for

  • VMware vSphere administrators
  • IT operations and infrastructure engineers
  • Claude Code users managing VMware environments
  • Security and audit teams who need non‑destructive access

Use cases

  • Audit snapshot age and identify stale snapshots across the inventory
  • Investigate VM outages by analyzing vmware.log files beyond vCenter event retention
  • Generate datastore capacity reports with thresholds (e.g., >85% full)
  • Prepare hosts for patching by safely evicting VMs into maintenance mode

Strengths

  • Safety‑first design enforced on every session: read‑only by default, explicit confirmation for destructive actions
  • Battle‑tested command patterns with cross‑platform compatibility (Linux, macOS, Windows, Git Bash, WSL)
  • Includes a full simulator‑based test suite (vcsim) for risk‑free validation without a real vCenter
  • Optional pseudonymising wrapper protects real VM names, IPs, and credentials from reaching the model

Considerations

  • Requires Claude Code and govc to be installed and configured separately
  • Environment variables (GOVC_URL, GOVC_USERNAME, GOVC_PASSWORD) must be set before starting Claude Code; changing them mid‑session requires a restart
  • The optional wrapper is an anonymisation tool, not a security boundary – a determined agent could bypass text‑based matching

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Description

A Claude Code skill that turns Claude into a vSphere administrator using govc. Inventory, reports, snapshot audits, root-cause analysis, and safe VM/host/cluster management for VMware vCenter and ESXi — read-only first, with confirmation guardrails for destructive operations.

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