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Get VM Info with REST-API

mgsteiner — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 07:58:22 GMT

Dear all,

I'm starting to use the REST-APIs to get information regarding our VMs and I'm interested to get also the Description/Annotation/Notes of a desired VM.

Does anybody knows how can I query and also update such information using REST-API ?

Thanks a lot in advance

Re: Get VM Info with REST-API

LucD — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 08:02:51 GMT

How do you intend to make the REST calls?
From which language or application?

Re: Get VM Info with REST-API

mgsteiner — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 08:08:40 GMT

I'm using Talend to create a job to call the REST-APIs using HTTPS and JSON structure to collect the desired VM info and use it for reporting and ticketing

Re: Get VM Info with REST-API

harshstar121 — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 08:15:06 GMT

Hi Max,

Which tool you're going to use to fetch VM details? eg. vsphere, vrops, vcloudDirector...

Re: Get VM Info with REST-API

mgsteiner — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 08:25:42 GMT

I'm connecting to vsphere using REST-API

Re: Get VM Info with REST-API

harshstar121 — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 08:34:34 GMT

Hi Max,

Here's the Vsphere Automation API reference.

https://developer.vmware.com/docs/vsphere-automation/latest/

Re: Get VM Info with REST-API

mgsteiner — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 11:15:52 GMT

Thanks for the link, I have it also, but the issue is that when I use the Get VM API, I do not have the Annotation/Notes from the VM , and that is what I'm looking for.

At the moment I can list vms, get the details of vms, but not the Annotation/Notes , which is very usefull becuase we are using that field in vCenter to write information about every VM.