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ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 10.1

Onboard storage backend (SVM or Cluster) with a vCenter Server instance

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Use the following API to onboard the storage backends and map the SVM to vCenter locally. See Configure ONTAP 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