A VMware ESXi/vCenter management server

Integrations

  • Provides ESXi and vCenter Server integration for complete virtual machine lifecycle management (create, clone, delete, power operations), real-time performance monitoring (CPU, memory, storage, network), and server management through a RESTful API interface.

  • Supports YAML as a configuration format for defining server settings, connection parameters, and authentication details.

ESXi MCP Server

A VMware ESXi/vCenter management server based on MCP (Model Control Protocol), providing simple REST API interfaces for virtual machine management.

Features

  • Support for ESXi and vCenter Server connections
  • Real-time communication based on SSE (Server-Sent Events)
  • RESTful API interface with JSON-RPC support
  • API key authentication
  • Complete virtual machine lifecycle management
  • Real-time performance monitoring
  • SSL/TLS secure connection support
  • Flexible configuration options (YAML/JSON/Environment Variables)

Core Functions

  • Virtual Machine Management
    • Create VM
    • Clone VM
    • Delete VM
    • Power On/Off operations
    • List all VMs
  • Performance Monitoring
    • CPU usage
    • Memory usage
    • Storage usage
    • Network traffic statistics

Requirements

  • Python 3.7+
  • pyVmomi
  • PyYAML
  • uvicorn
  • mcp-core (Machine Control Protocol core library)

Quick Start

  1. Install dependencies:
pip install pyvmomi pyyaml uvicorn mcp-core
  1. Create configuration file config.yaml:
vcenter_host: "your-vcenter-ip" vcenter_user: "administrator@vsphere.local" vcenter_password: "your-password" datacenter: "your-datacenter" # Optional cluster: "your-cluster" # Optional datastore: "your-datastore" # Optional network: "VM Network" # Optional insecure: true # Skip SSL certificate verification api_key: "your-api-key" # API access key log_file: "./logs/vmware_mcp.log" # Log file path log_level: "INFO" # Log level
  1. Run the server:
python server.py -c config.yaml

API Interface

Authentication

All privileged operations require authentication first:

POST /sse/messages Authorization: Bearer your-api-key

Main Tool Interfaces

  1. Create VM
{ "name": "vm-name", "cpu": 2, "memory": 4096, "datastore": "datastore-name", "network": "network-name" }
  1. Clone VM
{ "template_name": "source-vm", "new_name": "new-vm-name" }
  1. Delete VM
{ "name": "vm-name" }
  1. Power Operations
{ "name": "vm-name" }

Resource Monitoring Interface

Get VM performance data:

GET vmstats://{vm_name}

Configuration

ParameterDescriptionRequiredDefault
vcenter_hostvCenter/ESXi server addressYes-
vcenter_userLogin usernameYes-
vcenter_passwordLogin passwordYes-
datacenterDatacenter nameNoAuto-select first
clusterCluster nameNoAuto-select first
datastoreStorage nameNoAuto-select largest available
networkNetwork nameNoVM Network
insecureSkip SSL verificationNofalse
api_keyAPI access keyNo-
log_fileLog file pathNoConsole output
log_levelLog levelNoINFO

Environment Variables

All configuration items support environment variable settings, following these naming rules:

  • VCENTER_HOST
  • VCENTER_USER
  • VCENTER_PASSWORD
  • VCENTER_DATACENTER
  • VCENTER_CLUSTER
  • VCENTER_DATASTORE
  • VCENTER_NETWORK
  • VCENTER_INSECURE
  • MCP_API_KEY
  • MCP_LOG_FILE
  • MCP_LOG_LEVEL

Security Recommendations

  1. Production Environment:
    • Use valid SSL certificates
    • Enable API key authentication
    • Set appropriate log levels
    • Restrict API access scope
  2. Testing Environment:
    • Set insecure: true to skip SSL verification
    • Use more detailed log level (DEBUG)

License

MIT License

Contributing

Issues and Pull Requests are welcome!

Changelog

v0.0.1

  • Initial release
  • Basic VM management functionality
  • SSE communication support
  • API key authentication
  • Performance monitoring

Author

Bright8192

Acknowledgments

  • VMware pyvmomi team
  • MCP Protocol development team
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A VMware ESXi/vCenter management server based on MCP (Machine Control Protocol), providing simple REST API interfaces for virtual machine management.

  1. Features
    1. Core Functions
      1. Requirements
        1. Quick Start
          1. API Interface
            1. Authentication
              1. Main Tool Interfaces
                1. Resource Monitoring Interface
                2. Configuration
                  1. Environment Variables
                    1. Security Recommendations
                      1. License
                        1. Contributing
                          1. Changelog
                            1. v0.0.1
                            2. Author
                              1. Acknowledgments