Few days back I wrote a post on how to create Replication policies in vCloud Availability via GUI. In this post I will walk through steps of creating the same via API.
Below are high level steps of API workflow.
1: Get Auth Token
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Method: POST URL: https://<vcav-fqdn>/sessions Auth: No Auth Payload: { "type":"localUser", "localUser":"root", "localPassword":"Password" } |
2: Create a New Replication Policy
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Method: POST URL: https://<vcav-fqdn>/policies Headers: X-VCAV-Auth : <Token Value> Payload: { "allowIncoming":true, "allowOutgoing":true, "displayName":"DR-Default", "maxIncoming":-1, "maxInstances":24, "minRpo":15 } |
Response Output: Make a note of the id of the policy from the response output.
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{ "id": "8f563197-1ab6-48a8-af5c-bae2412e5756", "displayName": "DR-Default", "orgs": 0, "minRpo": 15, "maxInstances": 24, "maxIncoming": -1, "allowIncoming": true, "allowOutgoing": true } |
3: Get vCD Organization Detail
Note: In below API call, Cloud-Site is my site name in SP side. Replace this with yours.
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Method: GET URL: https://<vcav-fqdn>/inventory/orgs?site=Cloud-Site Headers: X-VCAV-Auth : <Token Value> |
Response Output
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{ "id":"b9fc81e0-058c-451d-947a-9268a32512b1", "name":"vStellar", "displayName":"vStellar,Inc", "enabled":true } |
4: Get Existing Policy Mapping Associated with an Org
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Method: GET URL: https://<vcav-fqdn>/policy-mappings?site=Cloud-Site&orgs=vStellar Headers: X-VCAV-Auth : <Token Value> |
Response Output: From the response output we can see org ‘vStellar’ is associated with policy ‘default’. This is vCAV default policy and its not configured with any replication attributes.
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{ "vStellar":"default" } |
5: Update Policy Mapping Associated with an org: In this step we are associating an org with the new policy which we created in Step 2
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Method: PATCH URL: https://<vcav-fqdn>/policies/<policy-id>/orgs/<org-name> Headers: X-VCAV-Auth : <Token Value> Example: https://<vcav-fqdn>/policies/8f563197-1ab6-48a8-af5c-bae2412e5756/orgs/vStellar |
5: Verify Org-Policy Mapping
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Method: GET URL: https://<vcavfqdn>/policy-mappings?site=Cloud-Site&orgs=vStellar Headers: X-VCAV-Auth : <Token Value> |
Response Output: Below output shows that org ‘vStellar’ is now associated to policy ‘Dr-Default’ (uuid=8f563197-1ab6-48a8-af5c-bae2412e5756)
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{ "vStellar": "8f563197-1ab6-48a8-af5c-bae2412e5756" } |
And that’s it for this post.
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