Creating a tenant using REST and JSON

Once you get used to the syntax, it is pretty easy to switch from XML to JSON. We can create a tenant using a few lines.

How to do it...

1. Use the URL https://192.168.1.205/api/mo/uni.json.
2. Use the following code:

     { 
        "fvTenant" : { 
          "attributes" : { 
         "name" : "TenantB"
          }
        } 
     }

3. Press Send.

How it works...

In the same way that we created a tenant through the GUI and through XML, we can create one through JSON.  If we run the command and look at the GUI, we can see the new tenant listed: