The vCenter REST API is a new developer friendly, simplified API which allows for Virtual Machine creation, modification and deletion via a consistent set of developer and automation tooling. This will allow for consistent interaction with the API via the tools which make sense to the developer community or someone automating VMware products.
This new feature of this API allow use of:
- Cluster - Get/List
- Datacenter - Create/Get/List/Delete
- Datastore Get/List
- Folder - List
- Host - Create/Get/List/Delete/Connect/Disconnect
- Network List
- Resource pool Get/List
- VM - Create/Get/List/Delete
- Power Get/Start/Stop/Suspend/Reset
- Hardware Get/Update/Upgrade
- Boot Get/Update
- Device Get/Set
- Disk Get/Set
- Cdrom - Create/Get/List/Delete/Update/Connect/Disconnect
- Cpu Get/Update
- Disk - Create/Get/List/Delete/Update
- Ethernet - Create/Get/List/Delete/Update/Connect/Disconnect
- Floppy - Create/Get/List/Delete/Update/Connect/Disconnect
- Memory Get/Update
- Parallel - Create/Get/List/Delete/Update/Connect/Disconnect
- Serial - Create/Get/List/Delete/Update/Connect/Disconnect
- Adapter
- Sata Create/Get/List/Delete
- SCSI - Create/Get/List/Delete/Update
- Boot Get/Update
In previous versions of vSphere the primary API for management has been SOAP based and used heavily by partners through SDKs and by Administrators via vCLI, PowerCLI or vRealize Orchestrator.
In today’s modern development world the API, Developers and Automation have become a focus of modern IT, the new vCenter REST API has been designed to fulfill the needs of a modern API by providing a simple, modern and expansive API surface and consistent tools and SDKs to access this.
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