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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 your browser has an installed copy of the vmware-vmrc plug-in. This plug-in is installed by
your browser whenever you use the vCloud Director Web Console to access the console of a running
virtual machine. After this plug-in is installed, you can find it in the folder where your browser stores
plug-ins.
Procedure
1 Retrieve the screen ticket.
POST a request to the acquireTicket link of the Vm.
Request:
POST https://vcloud.example.com/api/vApp/vm-4/screen/action/acquireTicket
Response:
200 OK
Content-Type: application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.screenTicket+xml
...
<ScreenTicket xmlns="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1 ...>ticket-string
</ScreenTicket>
The ticket string itself has the following form:
mks://ip-address/VM-MoRef/ticket=encoded-ticket
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ip-address is the IP address of the virtual machine.
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VM-MoRef is the managed object reference of the virtual machine.
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encoded-ticket is the encoded screen ticket. You must decode this ticket using a function such as the
Java URLDecoder or PERL url_escape before you can use it.
2 Use the ticket with the VMRC API.
The ticket is valid for 30 seconds. To use it, you must initialize the VMRC browser plug-in and use the
VMRC API, as described in the VMware Remote Console SDK documentation.
Undeploy, Power Off, and Delete the vApp
After you undeploy a vApp and power it off, you can use an HTTP DELETE request to delete the vApp
object.
A deployed vApp has a link that you can use with a POST request to undeploy the vApp and take a power
action such as powering it off or suspending it. A powered-off vApp has a link that you can use with a
DELETE request to remove the vApp.
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.
Make a GET request to the URL in the href attribute of the VApp element that was returned when you
created the vApp from the template. See “Get Information About a vApp,” on page 34.
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