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Hi, I'm facing an issue with the vCloud API using JSON. I'm trying to update a virtual machine disk. When I retrieve the GET /vApp/{id}/virtualHardwareSection/disks I get in the Hard Disk 1 item the following hostresource     "hostResource" : [ {       "value" : "",       "otherAttributes" : {         "{http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5}storageProfileHref" : "https://exampledomain.com/api/vdcStorageProfile/61fe5387-8551-4fs9-927f-dd1b63a82b26",         "{http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5}busType" : "6",         "{http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5}busSubType" : "VirtualSCSI",         "{http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5}capacity" : "10240",         "{http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5}iops" : "0",         "{http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5}storageProfileOverrideVmDefault" : "false"       }     } ], now updating the value of the "{http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5}capacity" and sending it back with a PUT request I get the following error message: {   "otherAttributes" : { },   "tenantError" : null,   "stackTrace" : null,   "majorErrorCode" : 400,   "message" : "'capacity' attribute expected for element HostResource for rasd item with InstanceID=2000",   "minorErrorCode" : "BAD_REQUEST",   "vendorSpecificErrorCode" : null,   "vcloudExtension" : [ ] } Is there anything I'm missing? Thanks in advanced. Housam Smadi

I was looking through the apiexplorer (https://<vcenter>/apiexplorer) on my VCSA 6.7 update 1 appliance, and came across GET /appliance/system/storage , however when I use the 'try it' in the swagger UI, I get an error    type": "com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.error", I'm guessing the `GET /appliance/system/storage` should map to `com.vmware.appliance.version1.resources.storage.stats.list` but this doesn't appear to be the case in the swagger UI. Is this intentional or a bug?

Does anyone know if its possible to inspect XML payloads for operations performed via the FlexUI? I'm trying to create an external network via the API, the documented solution does not work so trying to find the XML it sends. Its not possible to create an external network via the HTML5 interface.

I'm having trouble creating an external network in vCloud director. My XML must be wrong but I can't figure out where. I am performing a POST with this XML and get a HTTP 400 (Bad Request) error, can anyone see where I am going wrong? $xml = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>     <vmext:VMWExternalNetwork    xmlns:vmext="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/extension/v1.5"    xmlns:vcloud="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5"    name="test-extnet"    type="application/vnd.vmware.admin.vmwexternalnet+xml">    <vcloud:Description>Test-extnet</vcloud:Description>    <vcloud:Configuration>       <vcloud:IpScopes>          <vcloud:IpScope>             <vcloud:IsInherited>false</vcloud:IsInherited>             <vcloud:Gateway>10.67.68.1</vcloud:Gateway>             <vcloud:Netmask>255.255.255.0</vcloud:Netmask>             <vcloud:Dns1>10.67.68.2</vcloud:Dns1>             <vcloud:Dns2>10.67.68.3</vcloud:Dns2>             <vcloud:DnsSuffix>test.com</vcloud:DnsSuffix>          </vcloud:IpScope>       </vcloud:IpScopes>       <vcloud:FenceMode>isolated</vcloud:FenceMode>    </vcloud:Configuration>    <vmext:VimPortGroupRef>       <vmext:VimServerRef          href="https://myvcdURL/api/admin/extension/vimServer/9" />       <vmext:MoRef>dvportgroup-123</vmext:MoRef>       <vmext:VimObjectType>DV_PORTGROUP</vmext:VimObjectType>    </vmext:VimPortGroupRef> </vmext:VMWExternalNetwork>'

My company is a cloud services company and is implementing vCloud Director.   We've worked with vmware products in the past, including some legacy code that leverages the old SOAP API But I'm looking to see what we can do to leverage the modern vCloud REST API.   To that end, I'd like to build a service for our CMS that can make calls to the API. Our CMS is written using Symfony (v.4, and with PHP7).  It looks like the vCloud SDK for PHP is pretty outdated (for API 5.5, and we're on API 31.0 as of 10.10.18). Has any developer here: 1)  Gotten the old SDK to work with a newer API version (maybe with a fork?) 2)  Spec'd out the changes required to update the API? I expect that I'll eventually have to do one of these myself at some point if there isn't an off the shelf answer.

Hi, I am trying to show web console of a VM using HTML console SDK. For conneting div with VM, I found this document. Showing Web Console of a VM via vSphere HTML Console SDK · GitHub I applied third way but It doesn't work. I got an error below. Here is my code. And My vSphere version is 6. How can I fix it???

After trying to follow this (vSphere Automation REST API Postman Resources and Samples - Samples - VMware {code} ) and this (Kyle Ruddy - Get Started Making vSphere API Calls the Easy Way with Postman - YouTube ) I am stuck. I have been able to install Postman, import the JSON files, create a environment for vSphere (vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 Update 3c build 7037393) (using FQHN) and authenticate. The result from the Login is: {     "value": "214c5126c0ff010024798b861374b708" } ... and a "vmware-api-session-id" cookie has been created. So far, so good. The problem is that if I now try something simple like get a list of datacenters|hosts|vms then the result is always: {     "name": "com.vmware.vapi.rest.httpNotFound",     "localizableMessages": [         {             "defaultMessage": "Not found.",             "id": "com.vmware.vapi.rest.httpNotFound"         }     ],     "majorErrorCode": 404 } I have tried both "Inherit from parent" and "Basic" for Authorization TYPE. In both cases the results are the same. The credentials I am using allow me to login to the Web Client with no problems. What else can/should I try?