One method of consuming the available VxRail APIs is by leveraging the VxRail API PowerShell Modules Package from within your Windows OS using PowerShell. Each public API has a corresponding PowerShell cmdlet included in the VxRail PowerShell modules starting with VxRail 4.7.300. The API User Guide can be found here:

https://support.emc.com/docu91468_VxRail-Appliance-4.5.x,-4.7.x,-and-7.0.x-API-Guide.pdf?language=en_US

Steps to install the VxRail API PowerShell Modules Package are as follows:

Begin by downloading the VxRail API PowerShell Modules zip file from the VxRail support site:

Unzipping the contents into a folder:

CD to the folder from a PowerShell session and use the installer .\install.ps1 to install the modules and follow the prompts:

Listing all the newly installed VxRail PowerShell Modules:

Get-Command -Module VxRail.API.*

Excellent set of resources maintained by Karol @cl0udguide can be found here:

VxRail API—Updated List of Useful Public Resources

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