1.5
Table Of Contents
- vCloud API Programming Guide
- Contents
- vCloud API Programming Guide
- About the VMware vCloud API
- Hello vCloud: A Simplified RESTful Workflow
- Exploring a Cloud
- Provisioning an Organization with vApps, Templates, and Media
- Deploying and Operating vApps
- Summary of vCloud API vApp and Virtual Machine Operations Requests
- Create a vApp From a Template
- Compose a vApp From Existing Virtual Machines
- Recompose a vApp to Add or Remove Virtual Machines
- Operate a vApp
- Configuring vApps and Virtual Machines
- Retrieve the Configuration Links for a vApp
- Retrieve the Configuration Links for a Virtual Machine
- Retrieve or Update a Modifiable Section
- Update a vApp Network Configuration
- Update the NetworkConnectionSection of a Virtual Machine
- Retrieve or Modify the CPU Configuration of a Virtual Machine
- Retrieve or Modify the GuestCustomizationSection of a Virtual Machine
- Retrieve or Modify ProductSection Elements
- Retrieve or Modify Groups of Related Sections in a Virtual Machine
- Retrieve or Modify the Hard Disk Configuration of a Virtual Machine
- Creating, Provisioning, and Managing Organizations
- Summary of Administrative Requests
- Administrator Credentials and Privileges
- Organization Administration
- Network Administration
- vDC Administration
- Catalog Administration
- User and Group Administration
- Working With Roles and Rights
- Controlling Access to vApps and Catalogs
- Using vCloud API Extensions to Provision and Manage a Cloud
- Working With Object Metadata
- Using the Query Service
- Configuring and Using Blocking Tasks and Notifications
- XML Representations in the vCloud API
- Index
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Additional Link elements are included for operations that are now valid, but that were not valid while the
vDC was under construction.
<AdminVdc
xmlns="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5"
xmlns:vmext="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/extension/v1.5"
status="1"
name="org26vdc1"
id="urn:vcloud:vdc:44"
type="application/vnd.vmware.admin.vdc+xml"
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/admin/vdc/44" ... >
<VCloudExtension
required="false">
<vmext:VimObjectRef>
<vmext:VimServerRef
type="application/vnd.vmware.admin.vmwvirtualcenter+xml"
name="vc1"
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/admin/extension/vimServer/9" />
<vmext:MoRef>resgroup-949</vmext:MoRef>
<vmext:VimObjectType>RESOURCE_POOL</vmext:VimObjectType>
</vmext:VimObjectRef>
</VCloudExtension>
<Link
rel="up"
type="application/vnd.vmware.admin.organization+xml"
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/admin/org/26" />
<Link
rel="edit"
type="application/vnd.vmware.admin.vdc+xml"
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/admin/vdc/44" />
<Link
rel="disable"
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/admin/vdc/44/action/disable" />
<Link
rel="down"
type="application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.metadata+xml"
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/admin/vdc/44/metadata" />
<Link
rel="alternate"
type="application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.vdc+xml"
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/vdc/44" />
<Link
rel="down"
type="application/vnd.vmware.admin.OrganizationVdcResourcePoolSet+xml"
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/admin/extension/vdc/44/resourcePools" />
<Description>Example vDC</Description>
<AllocationModel>AllocationVApp</AllocationModel>
<StorageCapacity>
<Units>MB</Units>
<Allocated>4096</Allocated>
<Limit>4096</Limit>
<Used>0</Used>
<Overhead>0</Overhead>
</StorageCapacity>
<ComputeCapacity>
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