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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
When a virtual machine is deployed in a vDC that supports fast provisioning, its disks can become part of a
tree structure that includes parent and child disks. Disk tree structure and total storage consumption remain
the same regardless of the order in which virtual machines are relocated The folder structure in the target
datastore might change depending on the order in which virtual machines are relocated.
Prerequisites
Verify that you are logged in to the vCloud API as a system administrator.
Procedure
1 List the datastores available in the cloud.
Use a request like this one.
GET https://vcloud.example.com/api/admin/extension/datastores
The response is a DatastoreReferences element, as shown here:.
<vmext:DatastoreReferences
xmlns:vmext="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/extension/v1.5"
xmlns:vcloud="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5"
type="application/vnd.vmware.admin.datastoreList+xml"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://vcloud.example.com/api/v1.5/schema/master.xsd">
<vcloud:Link
rel="up"
type="application/vnd.vmware.admin.vmwExtension+xml"
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/admin/extension" />
<vcloud:Reference
type="application/vnd.vmware.admin.datastore+xml"
name="example-lun2"
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/admin/extension/datastore/607" />
<vcloud:Reference
type="application/vnd.vmware.admin.datastore+xml"
name="example-lun4"
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/admin/extension/datastore/191" />
</vmext:DatastoreReferences>
2 Retrieve the representation of the virtual machine.
The following request retrieves a Vm from a Vapp:
GET https://vcloud.example.com/api/vApp/vm-257
3 Find the action/relocate link for the Vm, and note the datastore that the Vm currently occupies.
This fragment of the response to the request made in Step 2 includes the action/relocate link and the
reference to the datastore that the Vm currently occupies.
<Vm
xmlns="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5"
... >
<VCloudExtension
required="false">
...
<vmext:VimObjectRef>
<vmext:VimServerRef
type="application/vnd.vmware.admin.vmwvirtualcenter+xml"
name="VC1"
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/admin/extension/vimServer/35" />
vCloud API Programming Guide
232 VMware, Inc.