5.1
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
- Summary of vCloud API Browsing Requests
- Retrieve the Login URL and List of Supported API Versions
- Create a Login Session Using the Integrated Identity Provider
- Retrieve a List of Organizations Accessible to You
- Retrieve an Administrative View of a Cloud
- Retrieve a List of vSphere Platform Operations and Objects for a Cloud
- Provisioning an Organization
- Summary of vCloud API Provisioning Requests
- Upload an OVF Package to Create a vApp Template
- Download a vApp Template as OVF
- Upload a Media Image
- Copying and Moving with the vCloud API
- Capturing and Importing vApps
- Cataloging vApp Templates and Media Images
- Creating and Using Independent Disks
- View or Change the Owner of an Object
- 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
- Provide User Input Requested by a Virtual Machine
- Attach or Detach an Independent Disk
- Creating and Using vApp Snapshots
- Operate a vApp
- Configuring vApps and Virtual Machines
- Retrieve the Configuration Links for a vApp
- Retrieve the Configuration Links for a Virtual Machine
- Update Multiple Sections of 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
- Update the Storage Profile for a Virtual Machine
- Creating and Managing Organizations
- Summary of Administrative Requests
- Administrator Credentials and Privileges
- Organization Administration
- vDC Administration
- Network Administration
- Catalog Administration
- User and Group Administration
- Working With Roles and Rights
- Controlling Access to vApps and Catalogs
- Managing and Monitoring a Cloud
- Summary of vSphere Platform Extension Requests
- Retrieve or Update System Settings
- Attach a vCenter Server
- Finding Available vCenter Resources
- Create a Provider vDC
- Create an External Network
- Create a Network Pool
- Import a Virtual Machine from vCenter
- Relocate a Virtual Machine to a Different Datastore
- Truststore and Keytab Maintenance
- Retrieve the vSphere URL of an Object
- Working With Object Metadata
- Using the Query Service
- Configuring and Using Blocking Tasks and Notifications
- vCloud Director Extension Services
- XML Representations in the vCloud API
- Index
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/admin/extension/resourcePool/64/action/migrateVms" />
<vcloud:Link
rel="resourcePoolVmList"
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/admin/extension/resourcePool/64/vmList" />
<vmext:ResourcePoolVimObjectRef>
<vmext:VimServerRef
type="application/vnd.vmware.admin.vmwvirtualcenter+xml"
name="ConfigWizard Configured vCenter"
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/admin/extension/vimServer/9" />
<vmext:MoRef>resgroup-235</vmext:MoRef>
<vmext:VimObjectType>RESOURCE_POOL</vmext:VimObjectType>
</vmext:ResourcePoolVimObjectRef>
<vmext:ResourcePoolRef
type="application/vnd.vmware.admin.vmwProviderVdcResourcePool+xml"
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/admin/extension/resourcePool/64" />
<vmext:Enabled>true</vmext:Enabled>
</vmext:VMWProviderVdcResourcePool>
</vmext:VMWProviderVdcResourcePoolSet>
Update Provider vDC Resource Pools
A system administrator can update the resource pool set of an existing Provider vDC to add or remove resource
pools. Adding resource pools allows organization vDCs that reference the Provider vDC to consume additional
resources during periods of high demand. Removing resource pools frees the underlying resources.
When you create a Provider vDC, it initially contains a single resource pool, called the primary resource pool.
Adding secondary resource pools allows a Provider vDC to support resource elasticity in organization vDCs
that use the AllocationPool or AllocationVApp (pay as you go) allocation model. Resource elasticity allows an
organization vDC's compute resources to grow or shrink on demand.
All of a Provider vDC's resource pools must come from the same vCenter. See “Retrieve a List of Resource
Pools from a vCenter Server,” on page 201.
Prerequisites
Verify that you are logged in to the vCloud API as a system administrator.
Procedure
1 Retrieve the XML representation of the Provider vDC.
Use a request like this one:
GET https://vcloud.example.com/api/admin/extension/providervdc/35
2 Locate the updateResourcePools link in the VMWProviderVdc.
Every VMWProviderVdc element includes an action link like this one to the Provider vDC's
updateResourcePools action.
<Link
rel="update:resourcePools"
type="application/vnd.vmware.admin.vmwProviderVdcResourcePoolSet+xml"
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/admin/extension/providervdc/35/action/updateResourcePool
s"/>
vCloud API Programming Guide
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