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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
Example: Upload URLs in a vAppTemplate
This request uses the vApp template URL returned in “Example: Initiating the Upload,” on page 57.
Request:
GET https://vcloud.example.com/api/vAppTemplate/vappTemplate-268
Response:
200 OK
Content-Type: application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.vAppTemplate+xml
...
<VAppTemplate
xmlns="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5"
xmlns:ovf="http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/envelope/1"
ovfDescriptorUploaded="true"
goldMaster="false"
status="0"
name="Ubuntu Template"
id="urn:vcloud:vapptemplate:268"
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/vAppTemplate/vappTemplate-268"
type="application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.vAppTemplate+xml">
...
<Description>Ubuntu vApp Template</Description>
<Files>
<File
size="3940"
bytesTransferred="3940"
name="descriptor.ovf">
<Link
rel="upload:default"
href="https://vcloud.example.com/transfer/.../descriptor.ovf"/>
</File>
<File
size="1024"
bytesTransferred="0"
name="manifest.mf">
<Link
rel="upload:default"
href="https://vcloud.example.com/transfer/.../manifest.mf"/>
</File>
<File
size="1950489088"
bytesTransferred="0"
name="disk0.vmdk">
<Link
rel="upload:default"
href="https://vcloud.example.com/transfer/.../disk0.vmdk"/>
</File>
</Files>
...
</VAppTemplate>
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