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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
networkName="CRMApplianceNetwork">
<Configuration>
<ParentNetwork
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/network/54" />
<FenceMode>natRouted</FenceMode>
</Configuration>
</NetworkConfig>
</NetworkConfigSection>
<ovf:StartupSection
xmlns:vcloud="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5"
vcloud:type="application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.startupSection+xml">
<ovf:Info>VApp startup section</ovf:Info>
<ovf:Item
ovf:order="0"
ovf:id="CRM-DB" />
<ovf:Item
ovf:order="1"
ovf:id="CRM-CRM" />
</ovf:StartupSection>
</InstantiationParams>
<AllEULAsAccepted>true</AllEULAsAccepted>
<DeleteItem
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/vApp/vm-45" />
</RecomposeVAppParams>
Response:
202 Accepted
Content-Type: application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.task+xml
...
<Task ...
operation="Updating Virtual Application Example Corp’s CRM Appliance (33)" ...>
...
</Task>
NOTE Virtual machines specified in Source elements must be powered off or this operation will fail. You can
use a query like this one to return a list of references to powered-off virtual machines that you have access to.
https://vcloud.example.com/api/query?type=adminVM&format=references&filter=status==POWERED_OFF
See Chapter 9, “Using the Query Service,” on page 201.
Operate a vApp
vApp and Vm elements include a number of action links. You can use these links to operate a vApp or one of its
virtual machines by making requests such as power on, suspend, power off, undeploy, and so on.
Only those action links that are valid for the vApp or virtual machine in its current state are returned. For
example, if a vApp is instantiated but not deployed, only the links for deploy and remove are returned. For a
vApp that is powered on, links for all actions except powerOn are returned. Some requests apply only to vApps,
some apply only to virtual machines (Vm objects), and some apply to both.
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A request made to a vApp power URL invokes the requested operation on each of the virtual machines in
the Children element of the vApp, in the order specified in its ovf:StartupSection element. This element,
if present, specifies a start order and related properties for each member of a VirtualSystemCollection
(each Vm contained by the Children element). If the element is not present, all members are started up at
the same time. The same logic applies to shutdown, reboot, and similar operations.
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