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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
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Verify that the VDC contains an independent disk. If the VDC does not contain independent disks, you
can create one. See “Create or Update an Independent Disk,” on page 80.
Procedure
1 Retrieve a reference to the independent disk to attach to a virtual machine.
The independent disk and the virtual machine must be contained by the same VDC. You can retrieve
references to independent disks in a VDC in the following ways:
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Use the query service. A query like this one returns references to all Disk objects in the VDC named
MyVdc.
GET https://vcloud.example.com/api/query?
type=disk&format=references&filter=vdcName==MyVdc
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Retrieve the VDC and look for ResourceEntity elements whose type attribute has a value of
application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.disk+xml. The href value of a ResourceEntity that represents a
disk is a reference to that Disk object.
2 Create a DiskAttachOrDetachParams element.
Provide a reference to the independent disk in the href attribute of the Disk element.
3 POST the DiskAttachOrDetachParams to the disk/action/attach link of the Vm.
Example: Attach an Independent Disk to a Virtual Machine
This request attaches the disk created in “Create or Update an Independent Disk,” on page 80 to a virtual
machine.
Request:
POST https://vcloud.example.com/api/vApp/vm-4/disk/action/attach
Content-Type: application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.diskAttachOrDetachParams+xml
...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<DiskAttachOrDetachParams
xmlns="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5">
<Disk
type="application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.disk+xml"
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/disk/128" />
</DiskAttachOrDetachParams>
The response is a Task.
Response:
<Task
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/task/57"
...
status="running"
operationName="vappAttachDisk"
... />
...
</Task>
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