Provisioning a blueprint (scripted)

[harkamal]

I am looking for a way to programmatically provision a blueprint. Basically we want to build a catalog and user selection should just provision a blueprint with default values. We don't intent to show the dcac interface to order a VM.

tried to lookup api reference, but could not figure out a way to do so.

http://communities.vmware.com/servlet/JiveServlet/download/2177503-102136/DynamicCloudInterface.html

appreciate any leads, good day !

[admin]

Are you asking about requesting a virtual machine against a blueprint?  For example, SubmitVirtualMachineRequest(GroupID, BlueprintID, Username) ??

Do you need it to be from powershell? or command line? or c#?

There are examples of each and usually they're delivered in extensibility training as part of the CDK.  They all boil down to doing an HTTP post to the rest entities WorkflowOperation & WorkflowOperationArguments which was in the API guide you linked to.  We're implementing some more strongly typed interfaces in the future to make this easier.

[harkamal]

Hi Phil

yes, I need to provision a vm from a blueprint.

we can use Powershell runspace or c#, appreciate if you can share some code 🙂

havent been through extensibility session yet.

many thanks.

hk

[admin]

These are samples that are proivded during extensibility training.  They aren't plug and play so you'll probably need to modify them slightly to get them to work.  I wanted to try them out but didn't have enough off hours time to do it. 😃

Normally you can get more help on this if you have CDK licenses with developer support, but maybe this is enough for you to figure it out.

[harkamal]

Many thanks !