vRA 8.x api how to get a compute components zone. Currently shows the compute resource not zone.

[qc4vmware]

When I make the api call to get a deployments resources the items that are of type Cloud.vSphere.Machine have a property of "zone" which has a value showing the ESX Cluster name.  I think this should be the zone not the compute resource within the zone?  There is also a property labeled "region" which does seem to correctly reflect the region.  Does anyone know how to get the actual zone?  I don't see an id or a link of any sort that would take me to that object.  I want to be able to include the zone in some reporting and otherwise pull it programatically for a deployments or individual resources.

[xian_ · Accepted solution]

GET https://vra8.corp.local/provisioning/uerp/resources/compute/01ab0a1f-addc-49b0-84c7-99b7b7718467

customProperties["__vmw:provisioning:cloudZone"]  -> a5f4c0ff-4cd5-4618-8c4c-6b95390e59c1

GET https://vra8.corp.local/iaas/api/zones/a5f4c0ff-4cd5-4618-8c4c-6b95390e59c1

[qc4vmware]

@xian_ to the rescue again!  Thanks so much will give this a whirl but I'm sure you're correct.

[qc4vmware]

Once we renew our support and I hopefully have developer support I will file this as a bug.  This information should be available to easily link.  The actual cloudZone id and/or name should be a part of the deployment and it's resources.  The property of the resource labeled "zone" should be zoneResource or zoneCompute or something more accurate.  Feels like a mistake to me.  Really should not need tribal knowledge to link it all up.

[Ankush11s]

It is part of below api

/deployment/api/deployments/{deploymentid}/resources?resourceTypes=Cloud.vSphere.Machine

[xian_]

@qc4vmware what is this "developer support"? 

This thing? https://www.vmware.com/support/services/sdk.html

[qc4vmware]

Yeah I think that is it... and we are not signing up for it unfortunately 😞