HTTP Requests for Data Set Operations
You can use HTTP requests to retrieve, create, update, or delete data sets and date set entries.
HTTP Requests
The following HTTP requests show
the syntax that you can use to perform the available user operations.
- List data setsGET https://<vcenter_ip_address_or_fqdn>/api/vcenter/vm/<vm>/data-sets
- Get data setGET https://<vcenter_ip_address_or_fqdn>/api/vcenter/vm/<vm>/data-sets/<dataSet>
- Create data setPOST https://<vcenter_ip_address_or_fqdn>/api/vcenter/vm/<vm>/data-sets
- Update data setPATCH https://<vcenter_ip_address_or_fqdn>/api/vcenter/vm/<vm>/data-sets/<dataSet>
- Delete data setDELETE https://<vcenter_ip_address_or_fqdn>/api/vcenter/vm/<vm>/data-sets/<dataSet>?force={true}
- List data set entry keysGET https://<vcenter_ip_address_or_fqdn>/api/vcenter/vm/<vm>/data-sets/<dataSet>/entries
- Get data set entry key valueGET https://<vcenter_ip_address_or_fqdn>/api/vcenter/vm/<vm>/data-sets/<dataSet>/entries/<key>
- Set data set entry key valuePUT https://<vcenter_ip_address_or_fqdn>/api/vcenter/vm/<vm>/data-sets/<dataSet>/entries/<key>
- Delete data set entry key valueDELETE https://<vcenter_ip_address_or_fqdn>/api/vcenter/vm/<vm>/data-sets/<dataSet>/entries/<key>
For information about the content and syntax of the HTTP query parameters, path parameters, and request body parameters, see the
API Reference
documentation.