Prism Centrals

The /prismCentrals resource collection represents all Nutanix AHV Prism Centrals connected to the backup server and VMs residing in the clusters registered with those Prism Centrals.

Rescan Prism Central

The HTTP POST request to the /prismCentrals/{id}/refreshAsync endpoint runs the infrastructure rescan operation for entities that belong to a Prism Central with the specified ID.

SecurityBearer
Request
path Parameters
id
required
string

Specifies the ID assigned to a Prism Central in the Nutanix AHV environment. To learn the ID, get a collection of Prism Centrals to which the backup appliance has access.

Responses
202

Accepted

400

Bad Request. The request body is malformed, incomplete or otherwise invalid.

401

Unauthorized. The authorization header has been expected but not found (or found but is expired).

403

Forbidden. The user sending a request does not have adequate privileges to access one or more objects specified in the request

500

Internal Server Error. The request has been received but could not be completed because of an internal error at the server side.

post/api/v7/prismCentrals/{id}/refreshAsync
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application/json
{
  • "sessionId": "f6567dd8-e069-418e-8893-7d22fcf12459"
}

Get Collection of Virtual Machines

The HTTP POST request to the prismCentrals/{id}/vms endpoint retrieves a list of all virtual machines residing on the clusters manged by a Prism Central with the specified ID.

SecurityBearer
Request
path Parameters
id
required
string

Specifies the ID assigned to a Prism Central in the Nutanix AHV environment. To learn the ID, get a collection of Prism Centrals to which the backup appliance has access.

query Parameters
offset
integer <int32> >= 0
Default: 0

Excludes from a response the first N items of a resource collection.

limit
integer <int32> >= -1
Default: 100

Specifies the maximum number of items of a resource collection to return in a response.

write-only
Array of objects or null (FilterParameter)

Specifies the criteria for items to be returned in a response. For more information, see the Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV REST API Reference Overview, section Filter Parameters.

write-only
Array of objects or null (SortParameter)

Specifies the order of items in the response. For more information, see the Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV REST API Reference Overview, section Sort Parameter.

Responses
200

OK

400

Bad Request. The request body is malformed, incomplete or otherwise invalid.

401

Unauthorized. The authorization header has been expected but not found (or found but is expired).

403

Forbidden. The user sending a request does not have adequate privileges to access one or more objects specified in the request

500

Internal Server Error. The request has been received but could not be completed because of an internal error at the server side.

get/api/v7/prismCentrals/{id}/vms
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Response samples
application/json
{
  • "offset": 0,
  • "limit": 0,
  • "totalCount": 0,
  • "results": [
    ]
}

Get Collection of Protection Domains

The HTTP GET requests to the /prismCentrals/{id}/protectionDomains endpoint retrieves a list of all protection domains configured in the Prism Central clusters.

SecurityBearer
Request
path Parameters
id
required
string

Specifies the ID assigned to a Prism Central in the Nutanix AHV environment. To learn the ID, get a collection of Prism Centrals to which the backup appliance has access.

query Parameters
offset
integer <int32> >= 0
Default: 0

Excludes from a response the first N items of a resource collection.

limit
integer <int32> >= -1
Default: 100

Specifies the maximum number of items of a resource collection to return in a response.

write-only
Array of objects or null (FilterParameter)

Specifies the criteria for items to be returned in a response. For more information, see the Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV REST API Reference Overview, section Filter Parameters.

write-only
Array of objects or null (SortParameter)

Specifies the order of items in the response. For more information, see the Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV REST API Reference Overview, section Sort Parameters.

Responses
200

OK

400

Bad Request. The request body is malformed, incomplete or otherwise invalid.

401

Unauthorized. The authorization header has been expected but not found (or found but is expired).

403

Forbidden. The user sending a request does not have adequate privileges to access one or more objects specified in the request

500

Internal Server Error. The request has been received but could not be completed because of an internal error at the server side.

get/api/v7/prismCentrals/{id}/protectionDomains
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application/json
{
  • "offset": 0,
  • "limit": 0,
  • "totalCount": 0,
  • "results": [
    ]
}

Get Collection of Volume Groups

The HTTP GET requests to the /prismCentrals/{id}/protectionDomains endpoint retrieves a list of all volume groups configured in the Prism Central clusters.

SecurityBearer
Request
path Parameters
id
required
string

Specifies the ID assigned to a Prism Central in the Nutanix AHV environment. To learn the ID, get a collection of Prism Centrals to which the backup appliance has access.

query Parameters
offset
integer <int32> >= 0
Default: 0

Excludes from a response the first N items of a resource collection.

limit
integer <int32> >= -1
Default: 100

Specifies the maximum number of items of a resource collection to return in a response.

write-only
Array of objects or null (FilterParameter)

Specifies the criteria for items to be returned in a response. For more information, see the Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV REST API Reference Overview, section Filter Parameters.

write-only
Array of objects or null (SortParameter)

Specifies the order of items in the response. For more information, see the Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV REST API Reference Overview, section Sort Parameters.

Responses
200

OK

400

Bad Request. The request body is malformed, incomplete or otherwise invalid.

401

Unauthorized. The authorization header has been expected but not found (or found but is expired).

403

Forbidden. The user sending a request does not have adequate privileges to access one or more objects specified in the request

500

Internal Server Error. The request has been received but could not be completed because of an internal error at the server side.

get/api/v7/prismCentrals/{id}/volumeGroups
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application/json
{
  • "offset": 0,
  • "limit": 0,
  • "totalCount": 0,
  • "results": [
    ]
}

Get Collection of Prism Central Categories

The HTTP GET request to the /prismCentrals/{id}/categories endpoint retrieves a list of all categories configured in a Prism Central with the specified ID.

SecurityBearer
Request
path Parameters
id
required
string

Specifies the ID assigned to a Prism Central in the Nutanix AHV environment. To learn the ID, get a collection of Prism Centrals to which the backup appliance has access.

query Parameters
offset
integer <int32> >= 0
Default: 0

Excludes from a response the first N items of a resource collection.

limit
integer <int32> >= -1
Default: 100

Specifies the maximum number of items of a resource collection to return in a response.

write-only
Array of objects or null (FilterParameter)

Specifies the criteria for items to be returned in a response. For more information, see the Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV REST API Reference Overview, section Filter Parameters.

write-only
Array of objects or null (SortParameter)

Specifies the order of items in the response. For more information, see the Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV REST API Reference Overview, section Sort Parameter.

Responses
200

OK

400

Bad Request. The request body is malformed, incomplete or otherwise invalid.

401

Unauthorized. The authorization header has been expected but not found (or found but is expired).

403

Forbidden. The user sending a request does not have adequate privileges to access one or more objects specified in the request

500

Internal Server Error. The request has been received but could not be completed because of an internal error at the server side.

get/api/v7/prismCentrals/{id}/categories
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Response samples
application/json
{
  • "offset": 0,
  • "limit": 0,
  • "totalCount": 0,
  • "results": [
    ]
}

Document updated 9/03/2025

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