vcenter vm guest power: reboot
Issues a request to the guest operating system asking it to perform a reboot. This request returns immediately and does not wait for the guest operating system to complete the operation. This operation was added in vSphere API 6.7
Request:
HTTP request
POST https://{server}/rest/vcenter/vm/{vm}/guest/power?action=reboot
Path Parameters
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Required | ||
| vm | string | Identifier of the virtual machine. |
Response:
HTTP Status Code: 200
NoneErrors:
| HTTP Status Code | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 500 | error | if the system reports an error while responding to the request. |
| 404 | not_found | if the virtual machine is not found. |
| 400 | not_allowed_in_current_state | if the virtual machine is not powered on. |
| 503 | service_unavailable | if VMware Tools is not running. |
| 400 | resource_busy | if the virtual machine is performing another operation. |
| 400 | unsupported | if the virtual machine does not support being powered on (e.g. marked as a template, serving as a fault-tolerance secondary virtual machine). |