Nutanix VMs API
Manage virtual machines including creation, update, deletion, and power state operations through the intent-based API model.
Nutanix VMs API is one of 21 APIs that Nutanix publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include VMs. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and authentication docs.
This API exposes 8 operations across 5 paths, and defines 7 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 3.1.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://{prismCentralIp}:9440/api/nutanix/v3.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Nutanix VMs 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 8
Across 5 paths, the API surfaces 8 operations — 1 DELETE, 3 GET, 3 POST, 1 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Manage virtual machines including creation, update, deletion, and power state operations through the intent-based API model.
Schemas 7
The contract defines 7 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are ListMetadata (6 properties), EntityMetadata (6 properties), VmSpec (4 properties), VmListResponse (3 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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