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Nutanix Images API

Manage disk images distributed across clusters for VM provisioning, including ISO and disk image uploads.

Nutanix Images API is one of 21 APIs that Nutanix publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Image. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and authentication docs.

This API exposes 4 operations across 3 paths, and defines 5 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 3.1.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://{prismCentralIp}:9440/api/nutanix/v3.

4 operations 3 paths 5 schemas 1 DELETE1 GET2 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
3.1.0
Base URL
https://{{prism-central-ip}}:9440/api/nutanix/v3
Authentication
HTTP Basic
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Nutanix Images API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP basic authentication (basicAuth). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • basicAuth — HTTP Basic Authentication using Prism Central username and password credentials.

Paths & Operations 4

Across 3 paths, the API surfaces 4 operations — 1 DELETE, 1 GET, 2 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Images 4

Manage disk images distributed across clusters for VM provisioning, including ISO and disk image uploads.

POST
/images/list
Nutanix List images
listImages body → 200401
POST
/images
Nutanix Create an image
createImage body → 202400401
GET
/images/{uuid}
Nutanix Get an image
getImage 1 param → 200401404
DELETE
/images/{uuid}
Nutanix Delete an image
deleteImage 1 param → 202401404

Schemas 5

The contract defines 5 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are EntityMetadata (6 properties), ListMetadata (6 properties), Reference (3 properties), ImageListResponse (3 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

ListMetadata
object
Request body for list operations supporting server-side filtering, sorting, and pagination.
6 properties
ImageIntentInput
object
Input for creating an image.
2 properties 2 required
ImageListResponse
object
Response for listing images.
3 properties
Reference
object
A reference to another entity.
3 properties 2 required
EntityMetadata
object
Metadata for an entity.
6 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

nutanix-images-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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Nutanix Cloud Clusters API
Nutanix NCM Self-Service API
Nutanix Foundation API
Nutanix Alerts API
Nutanix Categories API
Nutanix Clusters API
Nutanix Hosts API
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