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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
Table 10-9. vApp Template
Operation Name Description
vdcCopyTemplate Copy a vApp template.
vdcDeleteTemplate Delete a vApp template.
vdcEnableDownload Enable a vApp template for download as OVF.
vdcUpdateTemplate Modify one or more properties of a vApp template.
vdcUploadOvfContents Upload an OVF package to create a vApp template.
Table 10-10. vDC
Operation Name Description
rclCreateProviderVdc Create a provider vDC.
rclDeleteProviderVdc Delete a provider vDC.
vdcCreateVdc Create an organization vDC.
vdcDeleteVdc Delete an organization vDC.
vdcUpdateVdc Modify one or more properties of an organization vDC.
Table 10-11. Import
Operation Name Description
importMedia Import a media object from vSphere.
importSingletonVapp Import a virtual machine from vCenter as a vApp.
importSingletonTemplate Import a virtual machine from vCenter as a vApp template.
importIntoExistingTemplate Import a virtual machine from vCenter to an existing vApp
template.
importIntoExistingVapp Import a virtual machine from vCenter to an existing vApp.
Monitor Blocking Tasks
A system administrator can retrieve a list of all pending and active blocking tasks. Links in the returned
BlockingTask element allow the administrator to take action on the request.
In addition to being subject to programmatic action by an AMQP client (see “Notification Message Format,”
on page 219), blocking tasks can be monitored and managed by a system administrator using the vCloud API.
Prerequisites
Verify that you are logged in as a system administrator.
Procedure
1 Retrieve the list of blocking tasks.
See the request portion of “Example: Retrieve a List of Blocking Tasks,” on page 229. If the
BlockingTaskReferences element contains no Reference elements, no blocking tasks are currently active
in the system
2 Retrieve an individual blocking task from one of the Reference elements in the response.
See the request portion of “Example: Handling a Blocking Task,” on page 230.
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