Nutanix Prism Central MCP server

This Nutanix MCP server enables Large Language Models to interact with Nutanix Prism Central APIs, allowing for resource listing and detailed information retrieval through a standardized protocol interface.

Installation

Prerequisites

• Go 1.23 or higher
• Access to a Nutanix Prism Central instance
• Build tools (make)

Building from Source

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/thunderboltsid/mcp-nutanix.git
cd mcp-nutanix

# Build the MCP server
make build

Configuration

The server supports two credential methods:

1. Interactive credentials (default) - Works with Claude via MCP prompts
2. Static credentials - Required for tools like Cursor that don't support interactive prompts

Setting Up Claude Desktop/Code

Create or update your Claude Desktop configuration file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nutanix": {
      "command": "/path/to/mcp-nutanix"
    }
  }
}

Claude will prompt you for credentials when first using the server.

Setting Up Cursor

For Cursor, you need to provide static credentials via environment variables:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nutanix": {
      "command": "/path/to/mcp-nutanix",
      "env": {
        "NUTANIX_ENDPOINT": "your-prism-central-ip-or-hostname",
        "NUTANIX_USERNAME": "your-username", 
        "NUTANIX_PASSWORD": "your-password",
        "NUTANIX_INSECURE": "true"
      }
    }
  }
}

Environment Variables

• NUTANIX_ENDPOINT - Prism Central IP or hostname (required)
• NUTANIX_USERNAME - API username (required)
• NUTANIX_PASSWORD - API password (required)
• NUTANIX_INSECURE - Set to "true" for self-signed certificates (optional)

Using the MCP Server

Once configured, you can interact with Nutanix Prism Central through your LLM.

Listing Resources

Use the following commands to list resources:

vms
clusters
hosts
images
subnets

The LLM will receive and parse JSON lists of the requested resources.

Accessing Specific Resources

To retrieve detailed information about a specific resource, use resource URIs:

vm://{uuid}
cluster://{uuid}
host://{uuid}

The server will return comprehensive JSON data about the requested resource.

Limitations

• Response size is limited by the MCP protocol
• Some resources with large response sizes may cause errors
• No pagination support in the current implementation
• Only supports read operations (no create/update/delete functionality)

How to install this MCP server

For Claude Code

To add this MCP server to Claude Code, run this command in your terminal:

claude mcp add-json "mcp-nutanix" '{"command":"./bin/mcp-nutanix","args":[]}'

See the official Claude Code MCP documentation for more details.

For Cursor

There are two ways to add an MCP server to Cursor. The most common way is to add the server globally in the ~/.cursor/mcp.json file so that it is available in all of your projects.

If you only need the server in a single project, you can add it to the project instead by creating or adding it to the .cursor/mcp.json file.

Adding an MCP server to Cursor globally

To add a global MCP server go to Cursor Settings > Tools & Integrations and click "New MCP Server".

When you click that button the ~/.cursor/mcp.json file will be opened and you can add your server like this:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "mcp-nutanix": {
            "command": "./bin/mcp-nutanix",
            "args": []
        }
    }
}

Adding an MCP server to a project

To add an MCP server to a project you can create a new .cursor/mcp.json file or add it to the existing one. This will look exactly the same as the global MCP server example above.

How to use the MCP server

Once the server is installed, you might need to head back to Settings > MCP and click the refresh button.

The Cursor agent will then be able to see the available tools the added MCP server has available and will call them when it needs to.

You can also explicitly ask the agent to use the tool by mentioning the tool name and describing what the function does.

For Claude Desktop

To add this MCP server to Claude Desktop:

1. Find your configuration file:

• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
• Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
• Linux: ~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

2. Add this to your configuration file:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "mcp-nutanix": {
            "command": "./bin/mcp-nutanix",
            "args": []
        }
    }
}

3. Restart Claude Desktop for the changes to take effect