Hi, I’m Chris. 🙂 A couple of my colleagues have written pieces on various DevOps-y things lately but, the rest of the time, “I” refers to me. Lol. Anyway, I do a lot of work with the Nutanix REST APIs. Part of that is sharing things I find with you, our valuable readers out there […]
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PUT that down! Updating a VM with Prism Central v3 API
A while ago I published the first two parts of a beginner’s series. This series is aimed at getting started with the Nutanix Prism Central v3 REST API and covered the two following topics at the time: GET all the things – Setting up your first Nutanix REST API v2.0 request POST a package – […]
Calm Cookbook – Recipe #1 – Blueprint Import
Written by Laura Jordana, Technical Marketing Engineer at Nutanix While working on a recent project, I came across a need to automate certain operations in Calm. One of these operations was to automate the import/upload of a blueprint within Calm. Of course, we can easily do this in Prism by clicking on Blueprints > Upload […]
Batch Brewing – Multiple Requests with the Nutanix APIs
In an article published last week, Dwayne Lessner, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer @ Nutanix, and I discussed using APIs to automate some DR migration procedures. The script would most likely need to send API requests to update multiple entities i.e. combine multiple requests into a single request. The use case there is quite straightforward. Multiple […]
Slide on Over To Nutanix Leap
Written by Dwayne Lessner, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer at Nutanix Nutanix/Xi Leap Nutanix Leap is the product for DR Orchestration to another on-prem environment or to Xi Leap which is Nutanix’s hosted DR-as-a-Service. Nutanix has had integrated data protection since NOS 3.0 which relied on the use of protection domains. Protection domains gives the ability […]
Python API Lab 1.0 – Adding More API Requests
If you’ve taken the time to go through our Python API Lab, you may have finished with a question. How do I add more API calls to my custom dashboard? Mrs Joan Q. Labtaker A quick note for those who aren’t familiar with the lab being talked about here – the link above takes you […]
POST a package – Building your first Nutanix REST API v3 POST request
In a recent article I posted about getting started with the absolute basics of Nutanix REST API requests. Covering HTTP GET requests only, we looked at how to build a request that would return a list of the first 20 virtual machines running on a specific cluster. Advanced users may want to check out our […]
GET all the things – Setting up your first Nutanix REST API v2.0 request
Getting started with any new API can seem a little daunting, especially when you are new to API requests in general. This introductory article will cover the absolute basics – How to build and test your first Nutanix REST API request. Introductory Reading If you are very new to the Nutanix REST APIs and would […]
101 Setup – Preparing for Nutanix.dev Labs
The Nutanix Developer portal, simply known as Nutanix.dev, contains a collection of resources covering various developer topics. For example (each link will open in a new window/tab): Code samples Labs Blog articles API documentation However, many of our readers are new to development, APIs, code creation and the almost infinite amount of information related to […]
Launch a Nutanix Calm blueprint via API – Part 2
A couple of days ago I published a quick article entitled Launch a Nutanix Calm blueprint with API – Part 1. That article covered, as suggested by the excessively descriptive (:-)) title, how to use the Nutanix v3 APIs to launch a Nutanix Calm blueprint. In that article, I also said the article would be […]
