VMware Aria Operations MCP Skill
Note: In VCF 9.0 and later, VMware Aria Operations has been rebranded as VCF Operations. This skill works against both names — the
/suite-api/REST endpoints are unchanged.
Author: Wei Zhou, VMware by Broadcom — wei-wz.zhou@broadcom.com This is a community-driven project by a VMware engineer, not an official VMware product. For official VMware developer tools see developer.broadcom.com.
AI-assisted monitoring and capacity planning for VMware Aria Operations (vRealize Operations) via the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
Overview
vmware-aria exposes 27 MCP tools for interacting with Aria Operations through natural language AI agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Goose, etc.):
| Category | Tools | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Resources | list, get, metrics, health badge, top consumers | Read-only (5) |
| Alerts | list, get, acknowledge, cancel, definitions | Read + 2 Write (5) |
| Alert Definitions | symptom definitions, create, enable/disable, delete | Read + 3 Write (4) |
| Capacity | overview, remaining, time-remaining, rightsizing | Read-only (4) |
| Reports | definitions, generate, list, get, delete | Read + 2 Write (5) |
| Anomaly | list anomalies, risk badge | Read-only (2) |
| Health | platform health, collector groups | Read-only (2) |
