We will now access vCloud using REST directly as explained in the following sections.
Please note that the vApp template we will be using should have a network attached.
We first need to download and install a REST client we can play with. I prefer the Firefox plugin, which you can download from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/restclient/.
After downloading and installing the client, we are ready to go.
We will now use the REST API to work with vCloud.
Click on Authentication and select Basic Authentication.
Enter your vCloud username and password. The username should be in the format
myuser@System
, to make sure you authenticate to theSystem
organization of vCloud. You may also want to check the Remember me box.Click on Headers and select Custom Header.
Enter
Accept
under Name andapplication/*+xml;version=5.1
under Value. Check Save to favorite as we need this...