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providerRef - identifies the catalog provider which corresponds directly to a service registered in

thevCloud Automation Center component registry

For more information about scripting in vCenter Orchestrator, see Developing with VMware vCenter

Orchestrator.

Example: Get a Virtual Machine Provisioned as a vCloud Automation Center

Catalog Resource

This example uses a vCloud Automation Center host and its IaaS host as input parameters and, for a

provided resource id, returns the corresponding IaaS virtual machine. The scripting code takes only catalog

resources of Virtual Machine type that are provisioned by the iaas-service provider.

Table 4‑8. Input Variables

Variable Type

vcacHost vCACCAFE:VCACHost

iaasHost vCAC:VCACHost

// Id of the catalog resource (or vCACCAFECatalogResource_instance.getId())

var resourceId = "c222629c-6f90-4458-8c92-8ece0ba06173";

var resource = vCACCAFEEntitiesFinder.getCatalogResource(vcacHost, resourceId);

var resourceType = resource.getResourceTypeRef().getLabel();

System.log("resource type: " + resourceType);

var providerBinding = resource.getProviderBinding();

var bindingId = providerBinding.getBindingId();

System.log("provider binding id: " + bindingId);

var provider = providerBinding.getProviderRef();

System.log("provider id: " + provider.getId());

System.log("provider name: " + provider.getLabel());

if ((resourceType == "Virtual Machine") && (provider.getLabel() == "iaas-service")) {

System.log("It is an IaaS VM!");

// IaaS virtual machine

var vm = Server.findForType("vCAC:VirtualMachine", bindingId);

System.log("IaaS VM id: " + vm.virtualMachineID);

System.log("IaaS VM name: " + vm.displayName);

// IaaS Entity

var entity =

System.getModule("com.vmware.library.vcac").getVirtualMachineEntityFromId(iaasHost, bindingId);

System.log("IaaS entity id: " + entity.keyString);

}

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