# VAST Data

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/vastdata/  
**Website:** https://vastdata.com  
**APIs profiled:** 126

VAST Data is an enterprise AI infrastructure company building a unified data platform for AI. Its VAST AI Operating System combines the VAST DataStore (all-flash file, object, and block storage over NFS, SMB, S3, and CSI), VAST DataBase (structured data, vectors, and streams), VAST DataSpace (a global namespace across on-prem, cloud, and edge), and VAST DataEngine (serverless functions, event triggers, and a Kafka-compatible broker). Everything is managed through the VAST Management System (VMS) REST API — an OpenAPI-documented surface with 770+ operations — plus official Python and Go SDKs, a Terraform provider, the vastde DataEngine CLI, an official MCP server for cluster administration, and published agent skills.

## Kin Score — 39.0 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 39.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 49.5 |
| Governance | 16.7 |
| Contract Governance | 16.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 71.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

## Agent readiness — 50.7 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | verified |
| MCP Server | documented |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | yes |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | yes |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (126)

- **VAST Data activedirectory API** — Active Directory is supported as an external authorization and authentication provider. Active Directory may store and provide user and group attributes used by both NFS and SMB...
- **VAST Data alarms API** — Alarms can be raised by events.
- **VAST Data apitokens API** — API tokens are tokens created by VMS that enable VMS users to securely authenticate REST API requests.
- **VAST Data basicsettings API** — This endpoint provides basic settings for users that do not have permissions to access any security realm."
- **VAST Data bgpconfigs API** — BGP Configs are Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) configurations. You can configure a virtual IP pool to use layer 3 connectivity, instead of the default layer 2 connectivity, by at...
- **VAST Data Blob Expansions API** — The Blob Expansions API from VAST Data — 5 operation(s) for blob expansions.
- **VAST Data Block Hosts API** — The Block Hosts API from VAST Data — 1 operation(s) for block hosts.
- **VAST Data blockhosts API** — Block Hosts are block storage client hosts. They must be added to VMS in order to enable block storage volumes to be made available to them.
- **VAST Data blockmappings API** — Block Mappings are mappings of Blockhosts to Volumes. They make block storage volumes available to block storage hosts.
- **VAST Data callhomeconfigs API** — The callhomeconfigs path provides access to the cluster's Call Home configuration. Call Home is a service that sends non-sensitive data from your VAST Cluster to our central sup...
- **VAST Data capacity API** — This endpoint enables you to query capacity details of any path on any tenant and its direct child paths."
- **VAST Data carriers API** — Carriers represent DBox slots that house SSDs and NVRAMs.
- **VAST Data cboxes API** — A CBox is a server chassis containing four CNodes. The cboxes path represents the CBoxes in the cluster, exposes information about the cBoxes and maintenance operations.
- **VAST Data Certificates API** — The Certificates API from VAST Data — 3 operation(s) for certificates.
- **VAST Data challengetokens API** — Challenge tokens are used to unlock the cluster's indestructibility mechanism.
- **VAST Data clusters API** — VMS manages configuration of a single VAST cluster. The clusters path provides access to many configurations and settings that apply to the cluster.
- **VAST Data cnodegroups API** — CNode groups are groups of CNodes that managed applications can run on. See also Managed Applications.
- **VAST Data Cnodes API** — The Cnodes API from VAST Data — 8 operation(s) for cnodes.
- **VAST Data columns API** — The columns endpoint enables you to manage the columns in tables in a schema in a VAST database.
- **VAST Data Compute Clusters API** — The Compute Clusters API from VAST Data — 23 operation(s) for compute clusters.
- **VAST Data config API** — The config API from VAST Data — 3 operation(s) for config.
- **VAST Data dataspace API** — The dataspace API from VAST Data — 2 operation(s) for dataspace.
- **VAST Data dboxes API** — A DBox is an NVMe-oF JBOF, otherwise known as a VAST enclosure, or an enclosure containing NVMe-oF controller cards and flash SSDs. The dboxes path represents the DBoxes in the ...
- **VAST Data delta API** — The delta API from VAST Data — 2 operation(s) for delta.
- **VAST Data dnodes API** — A DNode is an NVMe-oF controller card in a DBox. The dnodes path represents the DNodes in the cluster, exposes information about the DNodes and maintenance operations.
- **VAST Data dns API** — The DNS path represents a VAST Cluster DNS service. You can create one VAST Cluster DNS service per cluster. The VAST Cluster DNS service can distribute incoming DNS requests to...
- **VAST Data dtrays API** — A DTray is a component of the CERES DBox. It is a canister that has two DNodes installed within. The DTray is a component of the CERES DBox. There are two Dtrays in each CERES D...
- **VAST Data eboxes API** — An EBox is a VAST enclosure that contains a server and SSDs. The server runs a CNode and two DNodes in containers.
- **VAST Data encryptedpaths API** — An encrypted path is a path that is encrypted with a dedicated encryption group which is a subgroup of the encryption group of the tenant on which the path resides. Encrypted pa...
- **VAST Data encryptiongroups API** — When data encryption is enabled on a VAST cluster with keys managed by an external key manager, each tenant must belong to an encryption group. Multiple tenants can belong to th...
- **VAST Data envs API** — The envs API from VAST Data — 2 operation(s) for envs.
- **VAST Data eventdefinitionconfigs API** — The eventdefinitionconfigs path exposes event definition configurations that affect event definitions and quotas. These include default actions that apply globally to event defi...
- **VAST Data eventdefinitions API** — Event definitions define the conditions that trigger events, the raising of alarms, alarm severity, and which actions are triggered on events, such as email notifications, webho...
- **VAST Data events API** — VMS logs system driven events, such as changes to object states and properties, and user driven events, such as the creation, modification or deletion of any object in the system.
- **VAST Data fans API** — Fans represent fans on the CBoxes and DBoxes
- **VAST Data filesystem API** — The filesystem API from VAST Data — 1 operation(s) for filesystem.
- **VAST Data folders API** — The folders endpoint enables the ability to manage directories and to set and get a directory's owner user and group attributes.
- **VAST Data globalsnapstreams API** — Global snapshot streams create instantly writable directories cloned from snapshots. Clones can be created from any snapshot residing on the cluster itself or on a cluster that ...
- **VAST Data groups API** — Groups are user groups that can be authorized to access any data on the cluster via any supported client protocol. The groups path provides: management of groups on the cluster'...
- **VAST Data Health API** — The Health API from VAST Data — 1 operation(s) for health.
- …and 86 more, listed in full on the page.

## MCP servers (1)

- **VAST Data MCP Server** — 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 (view...

## Security (2)

- **Vastdata Authentication** — apiKey/http · 2 schemes
- **Vastdata Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Infrastructure, Storage, Data, Artificial Intelligence, Database, Kubernetes, HPC

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