VMware AVI MCP server

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VMware AVI

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.

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AVI (NSX Advanced Load Balancer) management and AKO Kubernetes operations tool — 28 tools across 10 categories.

Dual mode: Traditional AVI Controller management + AKO K8s operations in one skill.

Companion skills handle everything else:

| Skill | Scope | Install |

|-------|-------|---------|

| vmware-aiops | VM lifecycle, deployment, guest ops, cluster | uv tool install vmware-aiops |

| vmware-monitor | Read-only: inventory, health, alarms, events | uv tool install vmware-monitor |

| vmware-storage | Datastores, iSCSI, vSAN management | uv tool install vmware-storage |

| vmware-vks | Tanzu Namespaces, TKC cluster lifecycle | uv tool install vmware-vks |

| vmware-nsx | NSX networking: segments, gateways, NAT | uv tool install vmware-nsx-mgmt |

| vmware-nsx-security | DFW firewall rules, security groups | uv tool install vmware-nsx-security |

| vmware-aria | Aria Ops: metrics, alerts, capacity | uv tool install vmware-aria |

Quick Install

# Via uv (recommended)
uv tool install vmware-avi

# Or via pip
pip install vmware-avi

# China mainland mirror
pip install vmware-avi -i https://pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/simple

# Verify installation
vmware-avi doctor

Offline / Air-Gapped Install (from source)

This project uses the modern PEP 517 build system (hatchling), so there is no setup.py by design — that is expected, not a missing file. If you cloned the source and hit ERROR: File "setup.py" or "setup.cfg" not found ... editable mode currently requires a setuptools-based build, your pip is older than 21.3 and cannot do an editable (-e) install with a non-setuptools backend. Editable mode is a developer convenience, not needed to run the tool — do one of:

# From the source tree — a normal (non-editable) install builds a wheel:
pip install .              # NOT  pip install -e .

# ...or upgrade pip first, and editable works too:
pip install --upgrade pip && pip install -e .

For a truly air-gapped host, build the wheels on a connected machine and copy them over — the target then needs no network:

# On a connected machine, collect this package + its dependencies as wheels:
pip wheel . -w dist        # → dist/*.whl   (or: uv build, for just this package)

# Copy dist/ to the air-gapped host, then install offline:
pip install --no-index --find-links dist vmware-avi

Capabilities Overview

What This Skill Does

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.