generated: '2026-07-21'
method: searched
status: published
source: https://github.com/vast-data/vast-admin-mcp
server:
  name: vast-admin-mcp
  description: Official VAST Admin MCP Server — a Model Context Protocol server for VAST Data cluster
    administration. Gives AI assistants tools to monitor, list, and manage VAST clusters (views, tenants,
    snapshots, quotas, alerts, performance metrics, support bundles). Supported for both cluster and tenant
    admins.
  vendor: VAST Data
  official: true
  license: Apache-2.0
  transport: stdio
  transports:
  - stdio
  - http
  distribution:
  - registry: pypi
    name: vast-admin-mcp
    install: pip install vast-admin-mcp
    url: https://pypi.org/project/vast-admin-mcp/
  - registry: docker
    name: vast-admin-mcp
    url: https://github.com/vast-data/vast-admin-mcp
  auth: VAST cluster credentials via keyring / K8s Secrets; bearer token and OAuth/OIDC supported for
    network (HTTP) deployments.
  modes:
  - read-only (default)
  - read-write (--read-write flag enables create/update operations)
  setup: vast-admin-mcp setup && vast-admin-mcp mcpsetup <cursor|claude-desktop|windsurf|vscode>
capabilities:
- List and monitor VAST clusters, tenants, views, view policies
- Performance metrics for clusters, cnodes, and views (+ graph generation)
- Snapshots, clones, and quota management (read-write mode)
- Alerts, data-protection relationship health, hardware topology
- Mini support-bundle creation and upload
- Dynamic list functions generated from YAML templates
notes: Tool surface is generated dynamically from YAML templates against the VMS REST API, so the exact
  tool list depends on server version and admin scope.
deployment:
  mode: local-stdio
  verified: searched
  checked: '2026-08-12'
  source: catalog MCP census