SimpliVity
SimpliVity is the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) pioneer acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise in 2017 and now shipped as HPE SimpliVity. Its data virtualization platform runs on the OmniStack software stack, delivering built-in deduplication, compression, backup, replication, and disaster recovery across VMware and Hyper-V clusters. The programmatic surface is the HPE OmniStack REST API (v1.25), which manages the key components of a SimpliVity configuration — virtual machines, backups, backup policies, datastores, hosts, clusters/omnistack_clusters, cluster groups, external stores, certificates, and long-running tasks. The API is served on-appliance by the Management Virtual Appliance (MVA) and authenticated with an OAuth2 password grant that issues read/write bearer tokens. HPE publishes first-party SDKs for Python, Go, and PowerShell plus Ansible modules on the HewlettPackard GitHub org.
More than an index entry, but the surface is still mostly links rather than artifacts — the cohort most likely to move a full band from modest, well-targeted work.
API Evangelist profiles SimpliVity the way a machine reads it — 15 machine-readable artifacts across 10 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — SimpliVity scores 28.5/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 56/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile SimpliVity
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for SimpliVity. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 10
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
SimpliVity backups API
A backup is a complete, standalone image of a specific virtual machine, taken at a specific point in time.
SimpliVity cluster_groups API
A set of omnistack_clusters that are able to perform backup and restore operations between each other
SimpliVity datastores API
A datastore is a data repository of files that constitute virtual machines.
SimpliVity external_stores API
An external (non HPE SimpliVity) destination for storing backups, such as an HPE StoreOnce Catalyst store
SimpliVity hosts API
A host is a virtual object that uses HPE OmniStack software in a federation.
SimpliVity omnistack_clusters API
An omnistack_cluster is a logical grouping of systems that run the HPE OmniStack software. The user defines an omnistack_cluster to efficiently share resources across the systems.
SimpliVity policies API
A policy contains backup rules that can be applied to an individual datastore or virtual_machine.
SimpliVity security API
Includes the REST APIs that support security operations for HPE SimpliVity objects
SimpliVity tasks API
A task is created by the system to enable a client to track state changes where a managed object moves when it is created or modified.
SimpliVity virtual_machines API
A virtual_machine represents a single virtual machine created within an HPE SimpliVity datastore.
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MCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
simplivity-mcp.yml
MCP SERVERSecurity Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for SimpliVity — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 4
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 5
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 4
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Company 1
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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