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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
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If the credentials supplied in the authentication header are invalid, or if the token has expired, the server
returns HTTP response code 401. The token expires after a configurable interval of client inactivity. The
default is 30 minutes after the token is created. After the token expires, you must log in again to obtain a
new token.
Find a Catalog and a vDC
Before you can deploy a vApp, you must find a vApp template in one of your organization's catalogs and a
vDC in your organization to use for the deployment.
After you log in, you can make a GET request to your organization's URL to retrieve the XML representation
of the organization. This representation shows the organization's attributes and contents, including links to its
catalogs, vDCs, and networks.
Prerequisites
Verify that you are logged in as a system administrator or member of an organization in the cloud.
Procedure
1 Examine the list of organizations to which you have access.
Make a GET request to the URL in the href value of the orgList link, which is present in the response to
all login requests.
GET https://vcloud.example.com/api/org/
Unless you are a system administrator, the response to this request is an OrgList element containing a
single Org element, which represents your organization.
<OrgList
xmlns="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5"
type="application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.orgList+xml"
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/org">
<Org
type="application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.org+xml"
name="ExampleOrg"
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/org/5" />
</OrgList>
2 Retrieve the representation of your organization.
See the request portion of “Example: Retrieve the Contents of an Organization,” on page 26.
3 Examine the response to find the links to the organization's catalogs, networks, and vDCs.
See the response portion of “Example: Retrieve the Contents of an Organization,” on page 26.
Example: Retrieve the Contents of an Organization
This example retrieves the ExampleOrg organization listed in the OrgList element shown in Step 1.
Request:
GET https://vcloud.example.com/api/org/5
Response:
200 OK
Content-Type: application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.org+xml
...
<Org
name="ExampleOrg"
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