vCloud Director storage profiles

Hi all

I'm trying to set up a script to set up the new organization and virtual Datacentres in our vCloud 5.1 environment. The problem, I came up against, it's that I can't specific what storage profiles are assigned to the new Vcc as it is created, it uses just for "* (all) ' storage profile. What I need to do is add storage profiles I need for the VDC and then remove the "* (all)" profile.

I am sure that there is a way to do it using the vCloud API and I understand that you can work with that of PowerCLI. I've never worked with a REST API before, so I don't really know what to do with it. I managed to interview gives information on existing storage profiles to help search for the clouds to find items and I'm sure that I can use to turn off the "* (all)" profile of an Org vDC but I can not understand how to go about adding a new profile (or rather, by adding one of my provider vDC storage profiles) to an Org VDC.

Any help/pointers appreciated!

Dave

I had another game around this afternoon and there remove the * (all) profile once the new profile is added. This will be part of a script to create a new Org vDC so I didn't do something to ensure that the * (a) is not in use because it will not.

Maybe this isn't the most effective way to do this, so I'm more than happy to have criticized him if there is a way to better / easier to go about it!


$OrgvDCName = "DLTest_vDC"
$NewProfileName = "Bronze Storage"
$NewProfileMBAlloc = 51200

# Get the object representing the new Storage Profile in the Provider vDC
$PvDCProfile = search-cloud -QueryType ProviderVdcStorageProfile -Name $newProfileName | Get-CIView

$spParams = new-object VMware.VimAutomation.Cloud.Views.VdcStorageProfileParams
$spParams.Limit = $newProfileMBAlloc
$spParams.Units = "MB"
$spParams.ProviderVdcStorageProfile = $PvDCProfile.href
$spParams.Enabled = $true
$spParams.Default = $false

$UpdateParams = new-object VMware.VimAutomation.Cloud.Views.UpdateVdcStorageProfiles
$UpdateParams.AddStorageProfile = $spParams

$orgVdc = Get-OrgVdc -Name $OrgvDCName
$orgVdc.ExtensionData.CreateVdcStorageProfile($UpdateParams)

# Get object representing the new Storage Profile in the Org vDC
$newvDCProfile = search-cloud -querytype AdminOrgVdcStorageProfile | where {($_.Name -match $newProfileName) -and ($_.VdcName -eq $orgvDC.Name)} | Get-CIView

# Make the new Storage Profile the default
$newvDCProfile.Default = $True
$newvDCProfile.UpdateServerData()

# Get object representing the * (Any) Profile in the Org vDC
$orgvDCAnyProfile = search-cloud -querytype AdminOrgVdcStorageProfile | where {($_.Name -match '\*') -and ($_.VdcName -eq $orgvDC.Name)} | Get-CIView

# Disable the "* (any)" Profile
$orgvDCAnyProfile.Enabled = $False
$orgvDCAnyProfile.UpdateServerData()

# Remove the "* (any)" profile form the Org vDC completely
$ProfileUpdateParams = new-object VMware.VimAutomation.Cloud.Views.UpdateVdcStorageProfiles
$ProfileUpdateParams.RemoveStorageProfile = $orgvDCAnyProfile.href
$orgvDC.extensiondata.CreatevDCStorageProfile($ProfileUpdateParams)

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