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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: Update a NetworkConnectionSection
This example modifies the NetworkConnectionSection shown in “Example: Configuration Links in a Vm
Element,” on page 90 so that this network connection is compatible with the reconfigured vApp network to
which it must connect. See “Example: Update a NetworkConfigSection,” on page 96. The modified
NetworkConnectionSection in the request changes two values:
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The IpAddress now specifies the address to which the vApp network's firewall allows access.
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Because it specifies an IP address, the modified NetworkConnectionSection also changes the value of the
IpAddressAllocationMode from DHCP to STATIC.
NOTE The ovf:Info element is a required member of NetworkConnectionSection and all other sections that
are derived from ovf:SectionType. Element content is ignored, but the element itself must be present. In this
example, we use the content to explain why the connection is configured this way.
Request:
PUT "https://vcloud.example.com/api/vApp/vm-4/networkConnectionSection/
Content-type: application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.networkConnectionSection+xml
...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<NetworkConnectionSection
type="application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.networkConnectionSection+xml"
xmlns="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5"
xmlns:ovf="http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/envelope/1">
<ovf:Info>Firewall allows access to this address.</ovf:Info>
<PrimaryNetworkConnectionIndex>0</PrimaryNetworkConnectionIndex>
<NetworkConnection
network="vAppNetwork">
<NetworkConnectionIndex>0</NetworkConnectionIndex>
<IpAddress>10.147.115.1</IpAddress>
<IsConnected>true</IsConnected>
<MACAddress>00:50:56:01:01:49</MACAddress>
<IpAddressAllocationMode>STATIC</IpAddressAllocationMode>
</NetworkConnection>
</NetworkConnectionSection>
Response:
202 Accepted
Content-Type: application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.task+xml
...
<Task ... operation="Updating Virtual Application Linux FTP server (7)" ...>
...
</Task>
Retrieve or Modify the CPU Configuration of a Virtual Machine
The CPU configuration of a virtual machine is represented by an Item in its VirtualHardwareSection element.
Prerequisites
Verify that you are logged in as a system administrator or the object owner.
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