Host Boot Device System Query Boot Devices

Host Boot Device System Query Boot Devices

Retrieves a list of the available boot devices for the host system.

Required privileges: System.Read

Request
URI
POST
https://{api_host}/sdk/vim25/{release}/HostBootDeviceSystem/{moId}/QueryBootDevices
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Path Parameters
string
moId
Required

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

string
release
Required

The vSphere release schema. The current specification covers vSphere 9.0.0.0 APIs.

Authentication
This operation uses the following authentication methods.
Responses
200

The boot device information for the host. The returned object has a list of HostBootDevice data objects; each boot device object defines a description and a key to identify the device. The order of devices in the list is unpredictable. The returned HostBootDeviceInfo data object also contains the key of the current boot device.

This response body class contains all of the following: HostBootDeviceInfo 
{
    "0": "H",
    "1": "o",
    "2": "s",
    "3": "t",
    "4": "B",
    "5": "o",
    "6": "o",
    "7": "t",
    "8": "D",
    "9": "e",
    "10": "v",
    "11": "i",
    "12": "c",
    "13": "e",
    "14": "I",
    "15": "n",
    "16": "f",
    "17": "o",
    "18": " ",
    "19": "O",
    "20": "b",
    "21": "j",
    "22": "e",
    "23": "c",
    "24": "t"
}

Code Samples
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                    curl -X POST -H 'Authorization: <value>' https://{api_host}/sdk/vim25/{release}/HostBootDeviceSystem/{moId}/QueryBootDevices
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