API

Backing up and restoring the vROps configuration from the API

October 16, 2020 Kim Bottu 1

As of vROps 8.2 there is a new king in town to backup and restore your vROps configuration from the API. Here is a quick look into this new feature. As all of us are aware, backing up vROps configuration prior to vROps 8.2 is quite painful. You have to export dashboards, reports, views and super metrics, separately. Other things like the metric configuration, you have to copy to a text file if you want to be able to restore it. But now in vROps 8.2 you can export all configuration in a single zip file. I won’t go into much detail about backing up and restoring from the UI, it is quite self-explanatory. Just be aware that when you […]

Using the VMware Lifecycle Manager 8.1 API to deploy vROps, vRLI, vRA and vRNI

June 10, 2020 Kim Bottu 0

Introduction Creating the API calls I needed in my lab took me quite some time. I probably could have saved a lot of time by first looking at the JSON files VRSLCM can export out of the box. But of course, I didn’t. vRSLCM is able to export a JSON file for any environment you have setup using vRSLCM. In this blog post I want to show you how I did what I did and where you can find the bits and pieces I needed to create my API calls. The easy way If you want to see a JSON file of a real world deployed environment in vRSLCM, why not export it from the UI? That is right, the […]