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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
Request:
POST https://vcloud.example.com/api/admin/extension/vimServer/9/importVmAsVappTemplate
Content-type: application/vnd.vmware.admin.importVmAsVAppTemplateParams+xml
...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ImportVmAsVAppTemplateParams
xmlns="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/extension/v1.5"
name="ImportedWin2K8"
sourceMove="false">
<VmMoRef>vm-43</VmMoRef>
<Vdc
href="http://vcloud.example.com/api/vdc/2" />
<Catalog
href="http://vcloud.example.com/api/catalog/32" />
</ImportVmAsVAppTemplateParams>
Response:
201 Created
Content-Type: application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.vAppTemplate+xml
...
<VAppTemplate ...
status="0"
name="ImportedWin2K8"
type="application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.vAppTemplate+xml"
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/vAppTemplate/vappTemplate-64" ... >
...
<Description />
<Tasks>
<Task
operation=”Busy Virtual Application Template Win2K8 ”>
...
</Task>
</Tasks>
</VAppTemplate>
Relocate a Virtual Machine to a Different Datastore
A Vm element, whether part of a Vapp or VappTemplate element, includes an action/relocate link that you can
use to move the virtual machine to a different datastore.
NOTE Beginning with this release of the vCloud API, the action/relocate operation in a Vm is deprecated. If
the datastore that contains a virtual machine has been disabled by the system administrator or is no longer
associated with virtual machine's designated storage profile, you must update the Vm element that represents
the virtual machine. That update revalidates the storage profile and relocates the virtual machine if necessary.
See “Update the Storage Profile for a Virtual Machine,” on page 126.
In both vApps and vApp templates, virtual machines are defined by a combination of metadata in the
vCloud Director database and virtual disk files stored on a datastore in the cloud. vCloud Director determines
the initial location of this datastore based on how the virtual machine was created. You can move the disk files
to another datastore in the cloud by POSTing a RelocateParams element to the virtual machine's
action/relocate link.
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