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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
items that hold local copies of that content. Synchronization keeps a catalog up to date with its external
subscription. A catalog owner can synchronize individual catalog items or entire catalogs at any time. A
system administrator can also schedule background synchronization for catalogs, so that all externally
subscribed catalogs in the system are synchronized on a common schedule.
Version Numbers
As part of VCSP support, catalogs and catalog items have version numbers, which are integer values that
increment monotonically. A catalog with an external subscription contains the most recent version of each of
its catalog items if it has been synchronized with its external source.
The catalog item version number increases whenever any of the following changes occur.
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A file in the referenced entity is added, removed, or changed.
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The name or description of the catalog item is changed.
The catalog version number increases whenever any of the following changes occur.
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A catalog item is added to or removed from the catalog.
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The version number of any contained catalog item changes.
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The name or description of the catalog is changed.
Add a Catalog to an Organization
Every organization has an add URL for catalogs. An administrator or catalog author can create a catalog by
POSTing an AdminCatalog element to this URL
A new Catalog object is an empty container for catalog items, which are references to vApp templates and
media images. There are several options for creating a catalog:
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You can create a catalog to use in your own organization or cloud, to hold content that you create
locally by uploading or importing.
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You can enable external publication of a catalog that you create locally. See “Publish an Existing
Catalog Externally,” on page 211.
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You can create a catalog that is published externally. See “Create a Catalog For External Publication,”
on page 201.
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You can create a catalog that has an external subscription. Contents of these catalogs are downloaded
from an external source.
NOTE You cannot use catalogs created by using an external subscription to hold catalog items that you
create locally. Catalogs that contain catalog items created locally cannot have an external subscription. See
“Create a Catalog With an External Subscription,” on page 203.
Prerequisites
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Verify that you are logged in as a system administrator, an organization administrator, or a user with
the Catalog Author role.
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Verify that at least one VDC exists in your organization. You cannot create a catalog in an organization
that has no VDCs.
Procedure
1 Retrieve the XML representation of the organization to which to add the catalog.
Use a request like this one:
GET https://vcloud.example.com/api/admin/org/26
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