SnapCenter Plug-in for VMware vSphere 5

Overview

You can use the SnapCenter Plug-in for VMware vSphere REST APIs to perform common data protection operations. The plug-in has different Swagger web pages from the Windows SnapCenter Swagger web pages.

REST API workflows are documented for the following operations on VMs and datastores using the REST APIs for VMware vSphere:
- Add, modify, and delete storage VMs and clusters
- Create, modify, and delete resource groups
- Backup VMs, scheduled and on-demand
- Restore existing VMs and deleted VMs
- Restore VMDKs
- Attach and detach VMDKs
- Mount and unmount datastores
- Download jobs and generate reports
- Modify built-in schedules
Operations that are not supported by the REST APIs for VMware vSphere
- Guest file restore
- Installation and configuration of the SnapCenter VMware plug-in
- Assign RBAC roles or access to users
uri parameter

The uri parameter always returns a "null" value.
Login timeout

The default timeout is 120 minutes (2 hours). You can configure a different timeout value in the vCenter settings.
Token management

For security, REST APIs use a mandatory token that is passed with each request and is used in all API calls for client validation. The REST APIs for VMware vSphere use the VMware authentication API to obtain the token. VMware provides the token management.

To obtain the token, use /4.1/auth/login REST API and provide the vCenter credentials.
API version designations

Each REST API name includes the SnapCenter version number in which the REST API was first released. For example, the REST API /4.1/datastores/{moref}/backups was first released in SnapCenter 4.1.

REST APIs in future releases will usually be backward compatible and will be modified to accommodate new features as needed.