Host System Get Hardware

Hardware configuration of the host.

This might not be available for a disconnected host.

Request

URI

GET

https://{vcenter-host}/sdk/vim25/{release}/HostSystem/{moId}/hardware

COPY

Path Parameters

string

moId

Required

The unique identifier for the managed object to which the property attaches; the serialized managed object reference for a request has the form moType/moId, in this case HostSystem/{moId}.

string

release

Required

The vSphere release schema. The current specification covers vSphere 8.0.2.0 APIs.

Authentication

This operation uses the following authentication methods.

Session

Responses

200

Returns HostHardwareInfo of type(s) application/json

This response body class contains all of the following: DataObject

{
    "_typeName": "string",
    "systemInfo": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "vendor": "string",
        "model": "string",
        "uuid": "string",
        "otherIdentifyingInfo": [
            {
                "_typeName": "string",
                "identifierValue": "string",
                "identifierType": {
                    "_typeName": "string",
                    "label": "string",
                    "summary": "string",
                    "key": "string"
                }
            }
        ],
        "serialNumber": "string",
        "qualifiedName": [
            {
                "_typeName": "string",
                "value": "string",
                "type": "string"
            }
        ],
        "vvolHostNQN": {
            "_typeName": "string",
            "value": "string",
            "type": "string"
        },
        "vvolHostId": "string"
    },
    "cpuPowerManagementInfo": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "currentPolicy": "string",
        "hardwareSupport": "string"
    },
    "cpuInfo": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "numCpuPackages": 0,
        "numCpuCores": 0,
        "numCpuThreads": 0,
        "hz": 0
    },
    "cpuPkg": [
        {
            "_typeName": "string",
            "index": 0,
            "vendor": "string",
            "hz": 0,
            "busHz": 0,
            "description": "string",
            "threadId": [
                0
            ],
            "cpuFeature": [
                {
                    "_typeName": "string",
                    "level": 0,
                    "vendor": "string",
                    "eax": "string",
                    "ebx": "string",
                    "ecx": "string",
                    "edx": "string"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "memorySize": 0,
    "numaInfo": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "type": "string",
        "numNodes": 0,
        "numaNode": [
            {
                "_typeName": "string",
                "typeId": 0,
                "cpuID": [
                    0
                ],
                "memorySize": 0,
                "memoryRangeBegin": 0,
                "memoryRangeLength": 0,
                "pciId": [
                    "string"
                ]
            }
        ]
    },
    "smcPresent": false,
    "pciDevice": [
        {
            "_typeName": "string",
            "id": "string",
            "classId": 0,
            "bus": 0,
            "slot": 0,
            "function": 0,
            "vendorId": 0,
            "subVendorId": 0,
            "vendorName": "string",
            "deviceId": 0,
            "subDeviceId": 0,
            "parentBridge": "string",
            "deviceName": "string"
        }
    ],
    "dvxClasses": [
        {
            "_typeName": "string",
            "deviceClass": "string",
            "checkpointSupported": false,
            "swDMATracingSupported": false,
            "sriovNic": false
        }
    ],
    "cpuFeature": [
        {
            "_typeName": "string",
            "level": 0,
            "vendor": "string",
            "eax": "string",
            "ebx": "string",
            "ecx": "string",
            "edx": "string"
        }
    ],
    "biosInfo": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "biosVersion": "string",
        "releaseDate": "string",
        "vendor": "string",
        "majorRelease": 0,
        "minorRelease": 0,
        "firmwareMajorRelease": 0,
        "firmwareMinorRelease": 0,
        "firmwareType": "string"
    },
    "reliableMemoryInfo": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "memorySize": 0
    },
    "persistentMemoryInfo": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "capacityInMB": 0,
        "volumeUUID": "string"
    },
    "sgxInfo": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "sgxState": "string",
        "totalEpcMemory": 0,
        "flcMode": "string",
        "lePubKeyHash": "string",
        "registrationInfo": {
            "_typeName": "string",
            "status": "string",
            "biosError": 0,
            "registrationUrl": "string",
            "type": "string",
            "ppid": "string",
            "lastRegisteredTime": "string"
        }
    },
    "sevInfo": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "sevState": "string",
        "maxSevEsGuests": 0
    },
    "memoryTieringType": "string",
    "memoryTierInfo": [
        {
            "_typeName": "string",
            "name": "string",
            "type": "string",
            "flags": [
                "string"
            ],
            "size": 0
        }
    ]
}

HostSystemInfo

systemInfo

Required

Information about the system as a whole.

HostCpuPowerManagementInfo

cpuPowerManagementInfo

Optional

The CpuPowerManagementInfo data object type describes supported power management and current policy.

HostCpuInfo

cpuInfo

Required

Information about the CPUs.

array of HostCpuPackage

cpuPkg

Required

Information about each of the physical CPU packages on the host.

integer As int64 As int64

memorySize

Required

Total amount of physical memory on the host in bytes.

HostNumaInfo

numaInfo

Optional

Information about NUMA (non-uniform memory access).

boolean

smcPresent

Required

Presence of System Management Controller, indicates the host is Apple hardware, and thus capable of running Mac OS guest as VM.

array of HostPciDevice

pciDevice

Optional

The list of Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) devices available on this host.

array of HostDvxClass

dvxClasses

Optional

The list of Device Virtualization Extensions (DVX) classes available on this host.

Since: vSphere API Release 8.0.0.1

array of HostCpuIdInfo

cpuFeature

Optional

CPU feature set that is supported by the hardware.

This is the intersection of the feature sets supported by the individual CPU packages. This feature set is modified by the supportedCpuFeature array in the host capabilities to obtain the feature set supported by the virtualization platform.

HostBIOSInfo

biosInfo

Optional

Information about the system BIOS

HostReliableMemoryInfo

reliableMemoryInfo

Optional

Information about reliable memory installed on this host.

HostPersistentMemoryInfo

persistentMemoryInfo

Optional

Host Hardware information about configured and available persistent memory on a host.

HostSgxInfo

sgxInfo

Optional

Data object describing the Software Guard Extension (SGX) configuration on the ESXi host.

HostSevInfo

sevInfo

Optional

Since: vSphere API Release 7.0.1.0

string

memoryTieringType

Optional

Type of memory tiering configured on this host.

See HostMemoryTieringTypeEnum for supported values. This field will be unset for legacy hosts as well as for hosts that don't support memory tiering.

Since: vSphere API Release 7.0.3.0

array of HostMemoryTierInfo

memoryTierInfo

Optional

Configuration of each memory tier on this host.

The array is populated in the order of tiers (ie, tier 0 at array index 0, tier 1 at array index 1, and so on).

Since: vSphere API Release 7.0.3.0

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