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VMware Aria Operations MCP server
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Ask your AI about VMware performance, alerts, and capacity, and let it handle simple alert tasks for you.
This is a helper that connects your AI assistant to VMware Aria Operations, the tool that watches over your VMware servers, virtual machines, and storage. Once it is set up, you can just ask questions in plain English instead of clicking through the Aria screens. It is handy for anyone who looks after a VMware environment and wants quick answers about health, alerts, or capacity.
What is an MCP server? The 30-second version
On its own, your AI can only chat. An MCP server is a small helper program that gives your AI a new skill or a connection to an app or service. This one connects your AI to VMware Aria Operations, so the AI can look up performance numbers, alerts, and capacity for you when you ask. You do not need to know how it works inside; you just talk to your AI like normal.
What this MCP server does
You ask your AI a question in everyday words, like which virtual machines are using the most CPU. The AI passes that request to this helper program. The helper logs in to your Aria Operations system and fetches the answer. Then it hands the result back to your AI, which explains it to you in the chat. For some tasks, like acknowledging an alert, it can also make the change for you, but only after you confirm.
Click to zoomWhat you can do with it
- List the top CPU or memory consumers right now
- Show all critical alerts and let you acknowledge or cancel them
- Check how long until a cluster runs out of memory or storage
- Find virtual machines that are over-provisioned and get rightsizing suggestions
- Look for anomalies on a specific virtual machine
- Check the health of the Aria platform itself and its data collectors
- Put a host into maintenance mode before planned work, then end it
Try asking your AI
- “Show me the top 10 CPU consumers right now”
- “List all CRITICAL alerts and acknowledge them”
- “How long until the prod cluster runs out of memory?”
- “Which VMs are over-provisioned? Show rightsizing recommendations”
- “Are there any anomalies on vm-web-01?”
What it gives back to you
You get answers in the chat, usually as short lists or summaries. For example, a list of virtual machines with their CPU usage, or a count of critical alerts with their names. When you ask it to change something, like acknowledging an alert, it tells you what it did. Some requests also give you numbers, like how many days of capacity are left.
Before you start
What you need
- A VMware Aria Operations (or VCF Operations) account with access to the API
- The username and password for that account
- Python installed on your computer (the tool runs on Python)
- The uv tool installed, which is a simple way to install Python programs
Good to know
Some actions can change things in your Aria system, like acknowledging or cancelling alerts, deleting alert definitions or reports, and starting or ending maintenance. These ask for confirmation first, but you should still be careful and check what will change before saying yes.
Install it with your AI
Add VMware Aria Operations MCP server to your AI, no technical skills needed
You don't install anything by hand. You copy one prompt, paste it into an AI that can work on your computer, and it checks, installs and connects the server for you, asking you when it needs something.
Sign in to get the install prompt
Members get a ready-made prompt that lets the Claude desktop app check VMware Aria Operations MCP server, install it and connect it for them, step by step. You don't need any technical skills: you copy, paste and answer a few questions. Your connected AI can also find and install any of the 4,066 MCP servers here for you.
Who it's for
This is most useful for VMware administrators, IT operations staff, and anyone who monitors a VMware environment and wants faster answers without clicking through the Aria interface.
