add_vcenter

Add a new vCenter to the Rubrik cluster.

def add_vcenter(vcenter_ip, vcenter_username, vcenter_password, vm_linking=True, ca_certificate=None, timeout=30)

Arguments

Name	Type	Description	Choices
vcenter_ip	str	The IP address or FQDN of the vCenter you wish to add.
vcenter_username	str	The vCenter username used for authentication.
vcenter_password	str	The vCenter password used for authentication.

Keyword Arguments

Name	Type	Description	Choices	Default
vm_linking	bool	Automatically link discovered virtual machines (i.e VM Linking).		True
ca_certificate	str	CA certificiate used to perform TLS certificate validation		None
timeout	int	The number of seconds to wait to establish a connection the Rubrik cluster before returning a timeout error.		30

Returns

Type	Return Value
str	No change required. The vCenter 'vcenter_ip' has already been added to the Rubrik cluster.
tuple	The full API response for POST /v1/vmware/vcenter and the job status URL which can be used to monitor progress of the adding the vCenter to the Rubrik cluster. (api_response, job_status_url)

Example

import rubrik_cdm

rubrik = rubrik_cdm.Connect()

vcenter_ip = "demo-vcsa.python.demo"
vcenter_username = "pythonuser"
vcenter_password = "python123!"


add_vcenter, url = rubrik.add_vcenter(vcenter_ip, vcenter_username, vcenter_password)