Scripting on a multitenant vCDirector environment

[raffapol]

Hello,

we're running vCloud Director 1.5 serving several customers/organizations.

Some of them asked us if possible to execute scripts, as Amazon does, to stop, start, restart VMs inside their organization.

We only expose vCD REST API, and we wouldn't like to make any change in the environment, not to affect in any way the other customers.

Is it possible to permit that customers to execute these script from their sites just connecting with their web credentials to our vCD cells with NO modifications?

Thank you!

Raffaello

[RvdNieuwendijk]

Discussion moved from VMware vSphere™ PowerCLI to vCloud Director PowerCLI

[jake_robinson_b]

Hi Raffaello,

vCloud Director Org users can connect to the API using their vCloud Org level credentials. There are various tools that use the vCloud API, including vCloud Automation Center, vCenter Orchestrator, and PowerCLI.

VMware has a special installation of PowerCLI called "PowerCLI for vCloud Tenants" which only includes the commands that apply to vCloud Organization users (aka Tenants).

This can be downloaded from http://vmware.com/go/powercli

Let me know if you have any other questions!

Cheers,

Jake

[raffapol]

Hi Jake,

it was exactly what I was looking for!

Thanks a lot!

Best,

Raffaello