The Site Recovery Manager API

This manual describes a Web services programming interface to protection groups and recovery plans in VMware Site Recovery Manager.

Introduction to the API
The Site Recovery Manager API provides an interface similar to vSphere API, an object‐oriented Web service that provides access to vSphere and virtual machine management on vCenter Server and ESXi hosts.
List of API Operations
By using Site Recovery Manager API you can perform a set of operations such as creating Site Recovery Manager objects and retrieving information about the objects.
Managed Object Hierarchy
The Managed object hierarchy table shows the Site Recovery Manager managed object hierarchy with the methods of each managed object in alphabetical order.
WSDL Programming Environments
You can program Web services and read WSDL files using the C# language with Visual Studio .NET, or using the Java language with the Axis framework or the JAX‐WS framework. You can program Web services using many other languages and frameworks, but they are beyond the scope of this manual.
Accessing VMware Site Recovery Manager
The Site Recovery Manager API provides language‐neutral interfaces to the Site Recovery Manager Server management framework. Interfaces are provided for managing protection groups and recovery plans. Both array-based replication and vSphere Replication are supported.
Logging into Sites with SAML Tokens
Site Recovery Manager release 6.0 improves security by obtaining a security assertion markup language (SAML) token from the vCenter Single Sign-On service for both the local and remote sites.