These days I am busy exploring NSX Rest API in my lab and during the process I came to know about a cool tool named PowerNSX and decided to dedicate a blog on this to give respect to creator of this tool.

What is PowerNSX

PowerNSX is a PowerShell module that abstracts the NSX API to a set of easily used PowerShell functions. PowerNSX enables NSX administrators to drive their infrastructure programmatically.

PowerNSX add additional functionality to extend the capabilities of NSX along with exposing the existing Update, Remove and Get operations for all key NSX functions beyond the native UI or API.

PowerNSX have been developed by Nick Bradford. PowerNSX is available for download on GitHub and can be downloaded as the branch or zipfile.

Note: VMware does not support this module, and PowerNSX comes with no warranties express or implied. It is advisable to test this in Lab before using in a production environment.… Read More

In this post we will explore how NSX manager system info can be retrieved via Rest API. NSX manager appliance home page is itself very descriptive and provides all system info. 

In this post we will learn how the same system info can be explored via API calls. Let’s get started.

Query NSX Manager Information

Below API query will provide you info like what is the major and minor version of NSX appliance you are running along with patch number and build number

Example: curl -k -u “vcadmin@corp.local” -X GET https://nsxmgr-01a.corp.local/api/1.0/appliance-management/global/info | tidy -xml -indent -quiet

In this post we will learn how can we configure some of the network settings like DNS/Syslog and NTP configurations in NSX manager via Rest API.

We can do all this from NSX manager GUI also but if you are thinking about automating NSX manager deployment, then these Rest API knowledge can be pretty handy for configuring the appliance post its deployment.

Lets get started.

Query Network Settings

Below API query will give you an overview of NSX Manager IP settings, Hostname, DNS settings and domain name

# curl -k -u “admin:adminpwd” -X GET https://nsxmgr.alex.local/api/1.0/appliance-management/system/network/ | xmllint –format –

In this post We will learn how to view generate self-signed certificate for NSX and replace the certificates after getting them signed from CA. We will be doing this via Rest API.

I wrote a post in past on how to replace SSL certs for NSX from GUI. In this post I am trying to achieve the same via Rest API

Following are the API queries which you need to execute in order to generate and replace certs.

Generate CSR Certificate

# curl -k -u “admin:passwd” -d @csr.xml -X PUT https://nsxmgr.alex.local/api/1.0/appliance-management/certificatemanager/csr/nsx

In this post I will be demonstrating how to enable and disable high availability on NSX edge gateway using Rest API.

If you are new to NSX and do not know what edge gateway high availability means then I would recommend to read this Blog by Gabe Rosas.

We can enable disable high availability on edge gateway from vSphere Web Client by navigating to Home  > Networking & Security > NSX Edges > Selecting Edge > Manage > HA Configuration

Enabling HA on edge gateway will create a new vse vm in vCenter and both VM start exchanging heartbeat and exchanging other configuration etc.

Now we will see how to achieve this via NSX Rest API.

Step 1: Query HA Status

# curl -k -u “admin:passwd” -X GET https://nsxmgr.alex.local/api/4.0/edges/edge-2/highavailability/config | xmllint –format –