Folks on this forum using vCLoud API - what server are you hitting?

[pjkerpan]

Hi,

I see specific questions about use of vCloud API on the forum here?   What vCloud provider or service are all of you hitting?  Is there a test server somewhere.  Quite possible I didn't read the documentation clearly enough.  Would love to work on integration to a vCloud environment.

thanks.

[BLjellis]

There is no test server, but the vCloud API should be provided with any certified vCloud Datacenter (such as BlueLock)

[pjkerpan]

Hey BlueLock!  Thanks for the answer.  We were in your early early beta before it was available from VMware.

We will give Brian W. a shout.

[anniyan]

Remember you can also use vCloud API with vCloud Express. Get an account with VMWare vCloud Express partners like Virtacore, Skytap or Terremark. Create a simple server and start testing your APIs against your server instance. It may cost you $0.06/hour. Pretty cheap. When you are done testing, remember to delete your instance so that you don't get billed after you shutdown your instance.

[pjkerpan]

Hi thanks,

That is sort of the question I was asking.

I have been struggling to find a vCloud Express provider with vCloud 1.0 API support:

Currently:

Terremark - No

Virtacore - No

BlueLock - Until recently no, but they have completed an update I will be trying tonight.  Hopefully they now have full support.

If others of you know of vCloud Providers with FULL 1.0 support - please respond.

Cheers, and thanks..

pk

[anniyan]

Good luck in finding a vCloud Express provider that supports API 1.0. vCloud API 1.0 was released only a few months back and it will take time for the providers to roll out the new version of API. I use both 0.8 (public - vCloud Express) and 1.0 (private - vCloud Director) and I find 1.0 less verbose and better than 0.8

[BLjellis]

BlueLock does fully support vCloud API 1.0 - we provide the straight reference implementation provided by VMware. We launched this as part of our vCloud Datacenter beta in 2010, and we now fully support it as a production solution.

Several open source projects and commercial software vendors have worked with us to develop solutions leveraging the vCloud API. We consume it internally as well; we've built solutions on top of the 0.8 specification, 0.9 and finally 1.0

1.0 is definitely a fantastic solution and has sizable improvements over 0.8. Allocation information and OVF payloads as part of the API make resource management tons easier.

[pjkerpan]

Yep - I just logged into my bluelock account - THANKS!