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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
status="running"
operation="Copying Virtual Application cloned (103)"
... >
</Task>
</Tasks>
...
</VApp>
Capture a vApp as a Template
You can capture a vApp to create a vApp template in a catalog. Instantiating the resulting template recreates
the vApp from which it was captured.
The captureVApp request creates a template based on the vApp referenced in the Source element of the
CaptureVAppParams request body. The request specifies a new name and, optionally, a new description and
storage profile for the template. If you want the new template to overwrite an existing template in the
catalog, you can specify a TargetCatalogItem in the request. Otherwise, the new template is stored in a new
catalog item.
If the vApp is deployed when you capture it, the template is created with the following properties.
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Memory state of all virtual machines in the source vApp is preserved in the template.
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Instantiating the template always creates a suspended vApp connected to an isolated network.
NOTE If the template is instantiated in a VDC that is not backed by the provider VDC that backed the VDC
in which the vApp was captured, memory state in the template is discarded on instantiation, and the vApp
is created with the network connections defined in the template or instantiation parameters.
Prerequisites
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Verify that you are logged in as a user with the Catalog Author role, as an organization administrator of
the organization that owns the catalog, or as a system administrator.
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Verify that the target catalog does not have an external subscription.
Procedure
1 Retrieve the XML representation of the catalog to which to add the vApp template that the capture
creates.
Use a request like this one, where id is the identifier of the catalog:
GET https://vcloud.example.com/api/admin/catalog/id
2 Examine the response to locate the Link element that contains the URL for capturing 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.captureVAppParams+xml"
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/catalog/5/action/captureVApp"/>
3 Create a CaptureVAppParams element that references the vApp to capture.
See “Example: Capture a vApp,” on page 109.
4 POST the CaptureVAppParams element to the action/captureVApp link shown in Step 2.
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