How to Retrieve Information About
ESXi
Hosts

You retrieve information about the

ESXi

hosts running in a

vCenter Server

instance by listing only the

ESXi

hosts that you are interested in.

To filter the

ESXi

hosts on a

vCenter Server

instance and get only the ones you want,

use the

GET https://<vcenter_ip_address_or_fqdn>/api/vcenter/host

HTTP request and specify your filter criteria through the query parameters.

Combine several filter criteria by including one or more of the following parameters:

The name or unique identifier of the host.

Clusters, data centers, or folders that contain the host.

Connection state of the host which can be one of the following:

CONNECTED

DISCONNECTED

, or

NOT_RESPONDING

Power state of the host which can be one of the following:

POWERED_OFF

POWERED_ON

, or

STANDBY

The request returns a

HostSummary

JSON object for each host that matches your filter. You can view information for up to 2500 hosts.

VMware vSphere SDKs and Tools 8.0