VMware

Collection of VMware APIs for cloud infrastructure, virtualization, and management solutions including vSphere, NSX, vCloud Director, Tanzu, and Aria operations.

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API Evangelist profiles VMware the way a machine reads it — 280 machine-readable artifacts across 59 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 — VMware scores 63.4/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 55/100 (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

Composite quality — 63.4/100 · strong

Contract Quality 17.7 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 9.6 / 20

Commercial Clarity 14.7 / 20

Operational Transparency 5.5 / 13

Governance 10.4 / 12

Discoverability 5.5 / 10

Agent readiness — 55/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile VMware

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for VMware. 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 59

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.

vSphere Web Services API

Comprehensive SOAP-based API providing access to all vSphere management functionality including virtual machines, hosts, clusters, networking, and storage.

Virtual Infrastructure JSON API

HTTP and JSON based wire protocol as an alternative to SOAP and XML for vCenter Server 8.0 Update 1 and later, documented via OpenAPI 3.0 specification.

NSX-T Global Manager API

API for managing NSX Federation with centralized configuration of multiple NSX deployments across sites.

NSX Intelligence API

API for NSX Intelligence and Application Platform providing network traffic data collection, ingestion, and correlation capabilities.

NSX Autonomous Edge API

REST API for NSX Autonomous Edge providing network virtualization capabilities for edge deployments using a resource-oriented architecture with JSON encoding.

Tanzu Kubernetes Grid API

API for managing enterprise-ready Kubernetes clusters.

Workspace ONE API

API for unified endpoint management and digital workspace platform.

VMware Cloud Foundation API

API for managing the full VMware Cloud Foundation stack including SDDC Manager and Cloud Builder for automated lifecycle management of private cloud infrastructure.

VMware Horizon Server API

API for managing VMware Horizon virtual desktop and application delivery platform including pools, farms, desktops, and sessions.

vSAN Management API

API for managing VMware vSAN software-defined storage including cluster configuration, disk management, health monitoring, and performance analytics.

VMware Aria Operations for Logs API

REST API for VMware Aria Operations for Logs providing programmatic access to log data ingestion, querying, aggregation, and platform configuration.

VMware Aria Operations for Networks API

API for network visibility, analytics, and troubleshooting providing access to application discovery, microsegmentation planning, and network flow analysis.

VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle API

REST API for managing the lifecycle of VMware Aria suite products including deployment, upgrade, patching, and configuration management.

VMware Site Recovery Manager API

REST API gateway for VMware Site Recovery Manager providing programmatic access to disaster recovery operations including protection groups, recovery plans, and replication mana...

VMware Live Cyber Recovery API

REST API for VMware Live Cyber Recovery providing access to cloud file systems, protected sites, VMs, protection groups, and recovery plans for ransomware and disaster recovery.

VMware Live Site Recovery API

API for VMware Live Site Recovery providing disaster recovery as a service capabilities with automated recovery plan execution and testing.

VMware vDefend API

API for VMware vDefend lateral security platform providing network security segmentation, threat detection, network analysis, and malware prevention capabilities.

VCF Operations API

API for VMware Cloud Foundation operations management providing monitoring, analytics, and performance optimization for VCF deployments.

VMware View API

API providing comprehensive access to VMware Horizon View data structures for managing virtual desktop infrastructure including desktop pools, sessions, and entitlements.

VMware Cloud on AWS API Reference

Comprehensive API reference for managing VMware Cloud on AWS infrastructure including SDDCs, organizations, subscriptions, and ESX host configurations.

NSX VMC Policy API

API for managing logical networking in NSX for VMware Cloud on AWS customers including security policies, segments, and gateway configurations.

VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery API

REST API for VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery providing access to cloud file systems, protected sites, protected VMs, protection groups, and Recovery SDDCs.

VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator API

REST API for VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator enabling programmatic access to run and schedule workflows, retrieve workflow details and logs, browse inventories and plug-ins,...

VMware Aria Operations for Networks SaaS API

SaaS version of the VMware Aria Operations for Networks API providing cloud-hosted network visibility, analytics, and microsegmentation planning capabilities with token-based au...

VCF Operations for Networks API

API for VCF Operations for Networks providing network visibility, analytics, and troubleshooting for VMware Cloud Foundation deployments.

VMware Avi Load Balancer API

RESTful API for VMware Avi Load Balancer providing programmatic access to application delivery services including virtual services, pools, service engines, analytics, and health...

VMware Data Services Manager API

API for VMware Data Services Manager providing on-demand provisioning and automated management of PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Microsoft SQL Server databases in vSphere environments.

VMware Data Services Manager Kubernetes API

Kubernetes API for VMware Data Services Manager enabling self-service consumption of supported data services through Kubernetes custom resources.

App Volumes API

API for VMware App Volumes providing programmatic access to real-time application delivery and lifecycle management for virtual desktops and published applications.

VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service API

API for VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service enabling management of Tanzu Kubernetes clusters on vSphere including cluster lifecycle, node pools, and infrastructure configuration.

SDDC Manager API

API for SDDC Manager providing programmatic access to VMware Cloud Foundation workload domain lifecycle management, host commissioning, and infrastructure configuration.

VCF Installer API

API for VMware Cloud Foundation Installer providing automated infrastructure bringup and initial deployment of VCF components.

VCF Operations Orchestrator API

REST API for VMware Cloud Foundation Operations Orchestrator providing workflow automation and orchestration capabilities for VCF infrastructure management.

VMware Cloud Director OpenAPI

Modern RESTful API for VMware Cloud Director defined using OpenAPI standards providing cloud service delivery and multi-tenancy management capabilities.

VMware Cloud Director API

XML-based API for VMware Cloud Director providing comprehensive cloud service provider capabilities including organization, VDC, vApp, and catalog management.

VMware Identity Manager API

API for VMware Identity Manager providing identity and access management capabilities including authentication, authorization, directory integration, and single sign-on.

Operations for Applications REST API

REST API for Operations for Applications providing access to metrics, dashboards, alerts, events, and integrations for full-stack observability and monitoring.

Data Management for VMware Tanzu REST API

REST API for Data Management for VMware Tanzu providing database-as-a-service capabilities for provisioning and managing data services on Kubernetes.

VMware Cloud Foundation for VxRail API

API for managing VMware Cloud Foundation deployments on Dell VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure including cluster expansion, lifecycle management, and VxRail-specific operations.

VCF Usage Meter API

API for VMware Cloud Foundation Usage Meter providing metering and usage reporting capabilities for VMware product consumption tracking by service providers.

Virtual Storage Lifecycle Management API

API for managing the lifecycle of virtual storage including first-class disks, storage policies, and virtual disk operations in vSphere environments.

VMware Private AI Service API

API for VMware Private AI providing on-premises AI and machine learning infrastructure services for deploying and managing AI workloads within VMware environments.

VMware HCX API

REST API for VMware HCX enabling workload mobility, network extension, and disaster recovery across data centers and clouds with support for migration automation and service mes...

VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager API

API for managing the lifecycle of VMware cloud provider environments including deployment, upgrade, and configuration of VMware products for service providers.

VMware Clusters API

Cluster management for compute resource grouping, DRS, and HA configuration

VMware Content Library API

Content library management for templates, ISOs, and OVF packages shared across vCenter instances

VMware Datacenters API

Datacenter management for organizing vSphere inventory

VMware Datastores API

Datastore management including browsing, capacity monitoring, and storage configuration

VMware Folders API

Inventory folder management for organizing vSphere objects

VMware Hosts API

ESXi host management including connection state, maintenance mode, and host configuration

VMware Networks API

Virtual network management including standard and distributed port groups and network connectivity

VMware Resource Pools API

Resource pool management for allocating compute resources

VMware Session API

Authentication session management for the vSphere REST API

VMware Storage Policies API

VM storage policy management for defining storage requirements and compliance

VMware Tagging API

Tag and category management for organizing and classifying vSphere inventory objects

VMware VM Guest API

Guest operating system operations including identity, networking, local filesystem, and process management via VMware Tools

VMware VM Hardware API

Virtual machine hardware configuration including CPU, memory, disks, network adapters, CD-ROMs, and other virtual devices

VMware VM Power API

Virtual machine power state operations including power on, power off, suspend, reset, and guest shutdown

VMware VMs API

Virtual machine lifecycle management including creation, power operations, cloning, migration, and configuration

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Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

VMware vSphere Automation REST API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Vmware Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Vmware Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Vmware Finops

FINOPS

Features 9

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

vSphere Virtualization

Industry-leading server virtualization platform for running and managing virtual machines across data center infrastructure.

NSX Networking

Software-defined networking and security platform with micro-segmentation, load balancing, and distributed firewall.

vSAN Storage

Hyper-converged software-defined storage integrated with vSphere for simplified storage management and high availability.

Tanzu Kubernetes

Enterprise Kubernetes management for building, running, and managing modern containerized applications at scale.

Aria Operations

AI-powered operations management for proactive performance optimization, capacity planning, and intelligent remediation.

Horizon VDI

Virtual desktop and application delivery platform for secure remote work with published desktops and applications.

Cloud Foundation

Integrated software stack for private and hybrid cloud with automated lifecycle management and consistent operations.

Site Recovery

Automated disaster recovery and business continuity with recovery plan orchestration and non-disruptive testing.

Private AI

On-premises AI infrastructure services for deploying and managing AI workloads within VMware environments.

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Semantic Vocabularies 2

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Vmware Context

0 classes · 12 properties

JSON-LD

Vmware Vsphere Context

0 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VMInfo

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VMSummary

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Security 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.

Vmware Authentication

apiKey/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Vmware Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

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.

Vmware Agentic Access

49 operations · 22 acting · 3 human-in-the-loop

49 operations · 22 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 6

What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.

What developers build with this provider.

Data Center Modernization

Transform traditional data centers with software-defined compute, storage, and networking for improved agility and efficiency.

Hybrid Cloud Operations

Extend on-premises infrastructure to public clouds with consistent management, security, and networking across environments.

Application Modernization

Containerize existing applications and deploy new cloud-native workloads on Kubernetes with enterprise-grade management.

Disaster Recovery

Protect business-critical workloads with automated failover, recovery plan testing, and ransomware protection.

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Deliver secure virtual desktops and applications to remote workers with centralized management and endpoint security.

Network Security

Implement zero-trust security with micro-segmentation, distributed firewall, and threat detection across the network.

Integrations 6

Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.

Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.

AWS

VMware Cloud on AWS provides a jointly engineered hybrid cloud service running vSphere on AWS bare-metal infrastructure.

Microsoft Azure

Azure VMware Solution runs VMware workloads natively on Azure with full vSphere, vSAN, and NSX integration.

Google Cloud

Google Cloud VMware Engine provides a fully managed VMware environment on Google Cloud infrastructure.

Dell VxRail

Jointly engineered hyperconverged infrastructure combining VCF with Dell PowerEdge servers for turnkey private cloud.

Kubernetes

Native Kubernetes integration through Tanzu and vSphere with Kubernetes for container orchestration at enterprise scale.

Terraform

Official VMware Terraform provider for infrastructure-as-code automation of vSphere, NSX, and VCF resources.

Resources

Every other property we hold for VMware — 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.

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

Login

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD

JSONLD

SpectralRules

SpectralRules

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Build 5

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

SDKs

SDKs

CodeExamples

CodeExamples

CLI

CLI

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

GitHubRepository

GitHubRepository

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

StatusPage

StatusPage

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Pricing

Pricing

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

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