A customer plans to transition from rack mount servers to blade servers. The customer has selected Virtual Connect as the network interconnect module for the c7000, allowing it to take advantage of…

A customer plans to transition from rack mount servers to blade servers. The customer has selected Virtual Connect as the network interconnect module for the c7000, allowing it to take advantage of network virtualization. The customer needs an on-premise management strategy that can take advantage of the RESTful API for integration into its Chef development operations model. Which protocol should the architect recommend to support and manage the proposed HPE BladeSystem solution?