1. Operations
2. vcenter
3. vm
4. hardware
5. cpu

## vcenter vm hardware cpu: get

Returns the CPU-related settings of a virtual machine.

### Request:

#### HTTP request

GET https://{server}/rest/vcenter/vm/{vm}/hardware/cpu

#### Path Parameters

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
Required
vm | string | Virtual machine identifier.

### Response:

#### HTTP Status Code: 200

#### Representations:

- JSON
- XML

{
"value": {
"cores_per_socket": 1,
"count": 1,
"hot_add_enabled": true,
"hot_remove_enabled": true
}
}
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<ns0:Get-Result xmlns:ns0="http://vmware.com/vcenter/vm/hardware/cpu" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<value>
<count>1</count>
<hot_remove_enabled>true</hot_remove_enabled>
<hot_add_enabled>true</hot_add_enabled>
<cores_per_socket>1</cores_per_socket>
</value>
</ns0:Get-Result>

#### Response Type:

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
bold = required
value | info | CPU-related settings of the virtual machine.
value.count | long | Number of CPU cores.
value.cores_per_socket | long | Number of CPU cores per socket.
value.hot_add_enabled | boolean | Flag indicating whether adding CPUs while the virtual machine is running is enabled.
value.hot_remove_enabled | boolean | Flag indicating whether removing CPUs while the virtual machine is running is enabled.

#### Errors:

HTTP Status Code | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
500 | error | if the system reports an error while responding to the request.
404 | not_found | if the virtual machine is not found.
400 | resource_inaccessible | if the virtual machine's configuration state cannot be accessed.
503 | service_unavailable | if the system is unable to communicate with a service to complete the request.
401 | unauthenticated | if the user can not be authenticated.
403 | unauthorized | if the user doesn't have the required privileges.