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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
Example: Create a Catalog With an External Subscription
This request creates a catalog with a subscription to the VCSP URL
https://vcloud2.example.com/vcsp/catalog/5. Because the LocalCopy element in
ExternalCatalogSubscriptionParams has a value of false, files that comprise a vApp template or media
image that a catalog item references are not downloaded until a user requests them. If you create a catalog
where LocalCopy has a value of true, these files are downloaded the first time that the catalog subscription is
synchronized, and on each subsequent synchronization where any of the catalog items has a newer version
number. The default value of LocalCopy isfalse.
Request:
POST https://vcloud.example.com/api/admin/org/26/catalogs
Content-Type: application/vnd.vmware.admin.catalog+xml
...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<AdminCatalog
xmlns="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5"
name="SubscribedExternally">
<Description>Example Catalog With External Subscription</Description>
<ExternalCatalogSubscriptionParams>
<SubscribeToExternalFeeds>true</SubscribeToExternalFeeds>
<Location>https://vcloud2.example.com/vcsp/catalog/5</Location>
<Password>Pa55w0rd</Password>
<LocalCopy>false</LocalCopy>
</ExternalCatalogSubscriptionParams>
</AdminCatalog>
The response is similar to the one shown in “Example: Create a Catalog,” on page 199, but includes the
ExternalCatalogSubscriptionParams element that you supplied in the request. The Password element in the
request is never returned.
Response:
201 Created
Content-Type: application/vnd.vmware.admin.catalog+xml
...
<AdminCatalog
xmlns:vcloud="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5"
name="SubscribedExternally"
id="urn:vcloud:catalog:34"
type="application/vnd.vmware.admin.catalog+xml"
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/admin/catalog/34">
...
<Link
rel="up"
type="application/vnd.vmware.admin.organization+xml"
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/admin/org/26" />
<Link ... >
<Link
rel="sync"
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/catalog/34/action/sync"/>
<Link ... >
...
<Tasks>
<Task
status="running"
...
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