The vCenter Server Appliance Management Programming Guide for REST provides information about using APIs to work with the vCenter Server Appliance, a turnkey solution for managing data centers featuring VMware® vCenter Server and VMware ESXi.
This information is intended for anyone who wants to develop software to configure, monitor, and manage the vCenter Server Appliance. The information is written for developers who have some experience with REST APIs and JavaScript.
VMware Technical Publications provides a glossary of terms that might be unfamiliar to you. For definitions of terms as they are used in VMware technical documentation, go to http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs.