VMware · Rate Limits

Vmware Rate Limits

VMware (Broadcom) does not publish a single product-wide API rate-limit policy. Most VMware APIs (vSphere, NSX, vCloud Director, Aria, etc.) run inside customer-managed control planes (vCenter, NSX Manager, SDDC Manager) where request behavior is governed by the appliance's own throttling, session limits, and the underlying infrastructure rather than a published per-key quota. SaaS endpoints (VMware Cloud on AWS, Workspace ONE) document service-specific limits on a per-product basis. Trimmed scaffold; consult product-specific docs.

Vmware Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for VMware on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.

It captures 1 rate-limit definition, measuring varies.

The profile also includes 2 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled and serviceUnavailable.

Tagged areas include Cloud Computing, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Rate Limiting.

1 Limits Throttle: 429
Cloud ComputingHybrid CloudInfrastructureVirtualizationRate Limiting

Limits

Per-product appliance limits appliance
varies
see product-specific API reference
Each VMware control plane (vCenter, NSX Manager, SDDC Manager, Aria) enforces its own session, concurrency, and request-rate limits documented in its respective API reference.

Policies

Consult Product Docs
There is no unified VMware/Broadcom rate-limit specification. Refer to the product-specific API reference for the appliance or SaaS endpoint being called.
Backoff and Retry
Standard practice for VMware REST APIs is exponential backoff with jitter when 429 or 503 is returned, honoring Retry-After when present.

Sources

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Tools for rate limits

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  • find_rate_limitsBrowse and filter every rate limit in the catalog.
  • apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
  • resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
  • find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.
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This rate limit 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits/vmware-rate-limits"
All rate limits 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits?limit=25"

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