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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
Request:
POST https://vcloud.example.com/api/vdc/5/action/composeVApp
Content-Type: application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.composeVAppParams+xml
...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ComposeVAppParams
name="Example Corp’s CRM Appliance"
xmlns="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5"
xmlns:ovf="http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/envelope/1">
<Description>Composed CRM Appliance</Description>
<InstantiationParams>
<NetworkConfigSection>
<ovf:Info>Configuration parameters for logical networks</ovf:Info>
<NetworkConfig
networkName="CRMApplianceNetwork">
<Configuration>
<ParentNetwork
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/network/54" />
<FenceMode>natRouted</FenceMode>
</Configuration>
</NetworkConfig>
</NetworkConfigSection>
</InstantiationParams>
<SourcedItem>
<Source
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/vApp/vm-4" />
<InstantiationParams>
<NetworkConnectionSection
xmlns:ovf="http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/envelope/1"
type="application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.networkConnectionSection+xml"
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/vApp/vm-4/networkConnectionSection/"
ovf:required="false">
<ovf:Info />
<PrimaryNetworkConnectionIndex>0</PrimaryNetworkConnectionIndex>
<NetworkConnection
network="CRMApplianceNetwork">
<NetworkConnectionIndex>0</NetworkConnectionIndex>
<IsConnected>true</IsConnected>
<IpAddressAllocationMode>DHCP</IpAddressAllocationMode>
</NetworkConnection>
</NetworkConnectionSection>
</InstantiationParams>
</SourcedItem>
<SourcedItem>
<Source
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/vAppTemplate/vappTemplate-114" />
</SourcedItem>
<SourcedItem>
<Source
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/vAppTemplate/vappTemplate-190" />
</SourcedItem>
<AllEULAsAccepted>true</AllEULAsAccepted>
</ComposeVAppParams>
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