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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
- 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
Merge Provider vDCs
You can merge one or more Provider vDCs with an existing Provider vDC. The merged Provider vDC contains
the union of all resources from the contributing Provider vDCs
In earlier releases of vCloud Director, a Provider vDC could be backed by no more than one resource pool.
This release removes that limitation, and allows you to merge existing Provider vDCs to create a single Provider
vDC that is backed by multiple resource pools. When you merge Provider vDCs, you select one or more
Provider vDCs as contributors and one Provider vDC as the target of the merge. When the merge is complete:
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The target Provider vDC includes the networks, network pools, storage profiles, resource pools, and
datastores from all of the contributors.
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Organization vDCs that were backed by the contributors are now backed by the target.
Prerequisites
Verify that you are logged in to the vCloud API as a system administrator.
Procedure
1 Identify the Provider vDCs to merge.
Select contributors that are not backed by the same resource pool as the target. You can use a query like
this one to discover the resource pools backing each of your Provider vDCs.
GET https://vcloud.example.com/api/query?type=providerVdcResourcePoolRelation&format=records
2 Construct a ProviderVdcMergeParams element that references each of the contributor provider vDCs.
See the request portion of “Example: Merge Provider vDCs,” on page 218.
3 Make a POST request to the action/merge link of the target Provider vDC and supply the
ProviderVdcMergeParams as the request body.
Example: Merge Provider vDCs
This request includes a ProviderVdcReference for each of two contributors. The request URL specifies the target
Provider vDC.
Request:
POST https://vcloud.example.com/api/admin/extension/providervdc/35/action/merge
Content-Type: application/vnd.vmware.admin.providerVdcMergeParams+xml
...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<vmext:ProviderVdcMergeParams
type="application/vnd.vmware.admin.mergeParams+xml"
xmlns:vmext="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/extension/v1.5"
xmlns:vcloud="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5">
<vmext:ProviderVdcReference
type="application/vnd.vmware.admin.vmwprovidervdc+xml"
name="PvDC-VC001"
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/admin/extension/providervdc/46" />
<vmext:ProviderVdcReference
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