In this post I will demonstrate how to redeploy edge gateway in vCloud Director using Rest API
Disclaimer: This is not any fancy post and I am going to perform very simple task here. Most of you may be already aware of this. This post is for those who are new to API and also a reference post for me for future.
Lets get started.
We have to follow below steps for redeploying an edge gateway using API calls
Step 1: Generate Auth Token
# curl -sik -H “Accept:application/*+xml;version=5.6” -u “admin@system” -X POST https://vcd-b.alex.local/api/sessions | grep auth
Enter host password for user ‘admin@system’:
x-vcloud-authorization: 3fc8a5425f804c9d94eeff04e0272ed7
Step 2: Get Org UUID
# curl -sik -H “Accept:application/*+xml;version=5.6” -H “x-vcloud-authorization:3fc8a5425f804c9d94eeff04e0272ed7” -X GET https://vcd-a.alex.local/api/org/
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<Org href="https://vcd-a.alex.local/api/org/58d92de4-4aa5-4a14-9b39-28e1de5e9809" name="Production" type="application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.org+xml"/> |
Step 3: Get vDC UUID
# curl -sik -H “Accept:application/*+xml;version=5.6” -H “x-vcloud-authorization:3fc8a5425f804c9d94eeff04e0272ed7” -X GET https://vcd-a.alex.local/api/org/58d92de4-4aa5-4a14-9b39-28e1de5e9809 | grep vdc
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<Link rel="down" href="https://vcd-a.alex.local/api/vdc/1c32832c-e4db-48b0-9cfc-116fbb302625" name="Prod-DC" type="application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.vdc+xml"/> |
Step 4: Get Edge Gateway UUID
# curl -sik -H “Accept:application/*+xml;version=5.6” -H “x-vcloud-authorization:3fc8a5425f804c9d94eeff04e0272ed7” -X GET https://vcd-a.alex.local/api/vdc/1c32832c-e4db-48b0-9cfc-116fbb302625 | grep edgeGateways
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<Link rel="edgeGateways" href="https://vcd-a.alex.local/api/admin/vdc/1c32832c-e4db-48b0-9cfc-116fbb302625/edgeGateways" type="application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.query.records+xml"/> |
Step 5: Get Edge Gateway UUID
# curl -sik -H “Accept:application/*+xml;version=5.6” -H “x-vcloud-authorization:3fc8a5425f804c9d94eeff04e0272ed7” -X GET https://vcd-a.alex.local/api/admin/vdc/1c32832c-e4db-48b0-9cfc-116fbb302625/edgeGateways | grep GW_Name
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<EdgeGatewayRecord gatewayStatus="READY" haStatus="DISABLED" isBusy="false" name="Prod-GW" numberOfExtNetworks="1" numberOfOrgNetworks="1" vdc="https://vcd-a.alex.local/api/vdc/1c32832c-e4db-48b0-9cfc-116fbb302625" href="https://vcd-a.alex.local/api/admin/edgeGateway/b37b059b-be98-4806-8535-9bbdcd4b6575" isSyslogServerSettingInSync="true"/> |
Step 6: Redeploy Edge Gateway
# curl -sik -H “Accept:application/*+xml;version=5.6” -H “x-vcloud-authorization:3fc8a5425f804c9d94eeff04e0272ed7” -X POST
https://vcd-a.alex.local/api/admin/edgeGateway/b37b059b-be98-4806-8535-9bbdcd4b6575/action/redeploy
And that’s it. If you have access to vCenter Server, you can watch sequence of events happening there
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