How to consolidate a VApp using the Vcloud director 5.1 API for Java

[rlangenfeld]

How do I consolidate a VApp using the Vcloud director 5.1 API for Java? I can't seem to find the right documentation or the right direction. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[IamTHEvilONE]

Consolidate is done at the VM level, not the vApp level.  At least that's true in the GUI level.

In pure REST, consolidate is a POST command like

POST /api/vApp/vm-78c3771e-465e-496d-9bfe-c6ea6a1de79e/action/consolidate

Even in this example, I think it's only going to consolidate the single VM inside the vApp (not all VMs inside the vApp).

Maybe you're looking in the wrong place?

[rkamal]

Hi,

As said above it can be done only on a VM. The VM helper class contains a method to do it. VM -> consolidate()

Note: The operation cannot be executed on a deployed VM. The operation is supported only for Virtual Center version 5.0 and later.

Regards,

Rajesh Kamal.

[rlangenfeld]

Thanks for the guidance everyone. Eventually I found the correct calls to do it