If you work with VMware vCloud Director (vCD) and Terraform regularly, you're likely familiar with the vcd provider for interacting with the vCD API. This provider is an excellent tool for automating the deployment of vCD resources and managing the lifecycle of your virtual datacenters.
However, you may have noticed …
Read MoreAzure VMware Solutions REST API - part 2:
az rest
After a discovery of Azure VMware Solution REST API through the Postman collection in part 1, we will use some of the fundamentals API calls through
az rest
, a useful subset of the Azure Command-Line Interface.Compared to Postman, I consider
az rest
an easier way to discover Azure REST API in a blog post as it doesn't …
Read MoreAzure VMware Solutions REST API - part 1: Postman collection
Working on Azure VMware Solution since a couple of months now, I found very usefull to have a prepared list of API calls on a notebook or quick-reference document.
After a period of time, I did collect enought sample to consider doing a full Postman collection and by doing that, I was also considering to cover the …
Read MoreHere is a quick memo on the usage of HTTPie to connect to VMware products to explore or use the API.
Install
(Ubuntu/Debian)
1sudo apt install -qy jq 2sudo pip3 install -U httpie
VMware vCenter
1# login 2http POST https://vcsa.vlab.lcl/rest/com/vmware/cis/session --verify=no --session=vcsa -a …
Read MoreObject notfound in vRO using the vCloud Director plugin
A strange behavior has happened just after vRO installation and vCloud director plugin configuration, I wasn't able to interact with any objects managed by the vcloud director plugin.
I created a simple workflow on my lab to illustrate the issue.
The workflow cannot be more basic as it has only a single line of code to …
Read MoreAfter a short introduction of Swagger Codegen and the context of the demo made for a French vMUG Webinar, we will see how to apply this to VMware products like vCenter and vCloud Director.
As this post is following the steps made in the part 1, I strongly encourage you to start with the previous post.
Pre-requisites …
Read MoreOn March 30th, I presented a webinar to the French VMUG community on the REST API subject and in particular on the way to generate API SDK clients without writing any code.
Slide deck is published (only in french, sorry) here: vupti.me/rls.
As said in the slide deck, this presentation was greatly inspired by a VMworld …
Read MoreThe vRealize Automation REST API can be used on vRealize Orchestrator directly with the
vCACCAFE
plugin, instead of using theHTTP-REST
plugin, which can be much more simplier.Get the vRA REST endpoint
If you have already used the vRealize Automation REST API, you should have noticed that there is around twenty …
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