VMware VM Hardware API
Virtual machine hardware configuration including CPU, memory, disks, network adapters, CD-ROMs, and other virtual devices
VMware VM Hardware API is one of 59 APIs that VMware publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition.
Tagged areas include VM Hardware. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, authentication docs, an API reference, a JSON-LD context, code examples, and 1 JSON Schema.
This API exposes 10 operations across 5 paths, and defines 10 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 8.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://{vcenter}/api.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 2
VMware VM Hardware API declares
2 security schemes
for authenticating requests.
An API key is passed in the header as vmware-api-session-id (sessionAuth).
It accepts HTTP basic authentication (basicAuth).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
sessionAuth— Session token obtained from POST /session. Include this header in all subsequent API requests.basicAuth— HTTP Basic authentication using vCenter Server credentials. Used primarily for creating sessions.
Paths & Operations 10
Across 5 paths, the API surfaces 10 operations — 5 GET, 3 PATCH, 2 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Virtual machine hardware configuration including CPU, memory, disks, network adapters, CD-ROMs, and other virtual devices
Schemas 10
The contract defines 10 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are EthernetCreateSpec (7 properties), CpuUpdateSpec (4 properties), CpuInfo (4 properties), MemoryInfo (4 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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