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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
Table 5‑2. Summary of vApp Reconfiguration Requests (Continued)
Operation Request Request Body Response
Retrieve vApp
StartupSection
GET API-URL/vApp/vapp-
id/ startupSection/
None
StartupSection
Update vApp
StartupSection
PUT API-URL/vApp/vapp-
id/ startupSection/
StartupSection Task
Retrieve vApp
NetworkConfigSection
GET API-URL/vApp/vapp-
id/ networkConfigSection/
None
NetworkConfigSection
Update vApp
NetworkConfigSection
PUT API-URL/vApp/vapp-
id/ networkConfigSection/
NetworkConfigSection Task
Retrieve the Configuration Links for a Virtual Machine
A virtual machine is represented by a Vm element. Each modifiable section of a Vm element includes a Link
element whose rel attribute has the value edit. You cannot modify sections that do not contain this Link
element.
Any ovf:SectionType element can include an arbitrary number of Link elements. Sections that you can
modify include a Link element where rel="edit". To modify one of these sections, retrieve it by making a
GET request to the URL in the section's href attribute. Then make a PUT request to the href attribute value
of the Link where rel="edit" to update the section with your modifications.
Prerequisites
Verify that you are logged in to the vCloud API as an administrator or vApp Author.
Procedure
1 Retrieve the XML representation of the vApp that contains the virtual machine to reconfigure.
Use a GET request as shown in “Example: Configuration Links in a vApp,” on page 118.
2 In the VApp element's Children element, find the Vm element that represents the virtual machine and
retrieve it.
3 Examine the response to find the reconfigureVm link and edit links to modifiable sections.
The response portion of “Example: Configuration Links in a Vm Element,” on page 120 shows the
reconfigureVm link and links for each of the modifiable sections of the Vm. You cannot modify sections
that do not contain a link where rel="edit".
Example: Configuration Links in a Vm Element
This example retrieves a Vm element shown in “Example: Configuration Links in a vApp,” on page 118. It
expands that element to show its configuration links. It also shows the entire NetworkConnectionSection of
that Vm, and additional information that is referenced in other examples. You cannot modify sections that do
not have a Link where rel="edit", so they do not appear in this example. Modifiable sections of the parent
vApp are shown in “Example: Configuration Links in a vApp,” on page 118.
Request:
GET https://vcloud.example.com/api/vApp/vm-4
Response:
200 OK
Content-Type: application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.vm+xml
<Vm
xmlns="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5"
xmlns:ovf="http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/envelope/1"
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