VMware Site Recovery Manager REST API Gateway provides API access to SRM functionality

Getting started with REST API

Step 1 - Authenticate to the API Endpoint

Create a session ID using the following API:

You have been authenticated and have retrieved your API session ID.

Step 2 - Use the session ID in subsequent calls

On subsequent API calls, include the session ID returned in step 1 using an HTTP header, as follows:

x-dr-session: MDYzYmJlZTEtMDhhMC00M2Q3LWE0YWUtNjI2Y2I3ZThjZjVi

Step 3 - Get Pairings

Get a list of all existing pairings by using this API:

Step 4 - Create a Remote Session

Create a session in the remote vCenter Server and the Site Recovery Manager server:

a. Include the session ID using an HTTP header.

x-dr-session: MDYzYmJlZTEtMDhhMC00M2Q3LWE0YWUtNjI2Y2I3ZThjZjVi

b. Include the Authorization using an HTTP header.

Authorization: Basic <credentials>

For "Basic" authentication, construct the credentials by first combining the username and the password with a colon (aladdin:opensesame), and then by encoding the resulting string in base64 (YWxhZGRpbjpvcGVuc2VzYW1l).

Authorization: Basic YWxhZGRpbjpvcGVuc2VzYW1l

Step 5 - Get All Protection Groups

You have been authenticated to the local and remote sites and have retrieved your API session ID. You can now get information about all protection groups in a given pairing by using this API: