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ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 10.0

Onboard storage backend (SVM or Cluster) with vCenter

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Use the following API to onboard the storage backends and map the SVM to vCenter locally. See Configure user roles and privileges section for the ONTAP SVM user privileges.

POST /virtualization/api/v1/vcenters/<vcguid>/storage-backends

{
     "hostname_or_ip": "172.21.103.107",
     "username": "svm11",
     "password": "xxxxxx"
   }
Note The ID from the above API response is used in discovery.

You need to pass x-auth for the API. You can generate this x-auth from the new API added under Auth in Swagger.

/virtualization/api/v1/auth/vcenter-login