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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 or vApp Template as OVF
- Upload a Media Image
- Download a Media Image
- Capturing and Importing vApps
- Managing Catalog Items
- Creating and Using Independent Disks
- View or Change the Owner of an Object
- Controlling Access to vApps and Catalogs
- Deploying and Operating vApps
- Summary of vCloud API vApp and Virtual Machine Operations Requests
- Create a vApp From a Template
- Create a vApp From an OVF Package
- Compose a vApp From Existing Virtual Machines
- Recompose a vApp to Add or Remove Virtual Machines
- Clone a vApp
- Capture a vApp as a Template
- Update vApp Access Controls
- 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
- Managing and Monitoring a Cloud
- Summary of System Administration 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
Clone a vApp
You can make a copy of a vApp by cloning it. If the vApp is deployed when you clone it, the clone
procedure also clones the memory state of the virtual machines in the vApp.
The cloneVApp request makes a copy of the vApp referenced in the Source element of the CloneVappParams
request body. The request specifies a new name and, optionally, a new description for the copy. The request
can optionally include an IsSourceDelete element whose value specifies whether to delete the source vApp
after the copy is complete. If IsSourceDelete is missing from the request body, or present with a value of
false, the source object remains in place after the copy is complete. Setting IsSourceDelete to true
effectively moves or renames the vApp.
If the vApp is deployed when you clone it and the target VDC is backed by the same provider VDC as the
source VDC, the clone is created with the following properties:
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Memory state of all virtual machines in the source vApp is preserved in the clone.
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The clone is suspended and connected to an isolated network.
Prerequisites
Verify that you are logged in to the vCloud API as a system administrator or member of an organization in
the cloud.
Procedure
1 Retrieve the XML representation of the VDC in which you want to deploy the cloned vApp.
Use a request like this one, where id is the identifier of the VDC:
GET https://vcloud.example.com/admin/vdc/id
You can create the clone in the same VDC that holds the source vApp, or in a different VDC.
2 Examine the response to locate the Link element that contains the URL for cloning a vApp.
This element has a rel attribute value of add and a type attribute value of
application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.captureVAppParams+xml, as shown here:
<Link
rel="add"
type="application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.cloneVAppParams+xml"
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/vdc/12/action/cloneVApp"/>
3 Create a CloneVappParams element that references the vApp to clone and specifies details of the clone
operation.
See “Example: Clone a vApp,” on page 106.
4 POST the CloneVappParams element to the action/cloneVApp link of the VDC in which the clone should
be created.
Example: Clone a vApp
This request creates a copy of the vApp created in “Example: Instantiate a vApp Template,” on page 94 in
another VDC. Because the ParentNetwork in the Source vApp is not available in the VDC specified in the
action/cloneVApp request, the CloneVAppParams request body must include InstantiationParams that
specify a new ParentNetwork for the vApp network.
NOTE If the vApp is deployed when you clone it, any network configuration you specify in the
CloneVAppParams is ignored and the clone is created with a connection to an isolated network.
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