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To continue working with the same VM that you deployed in the last tutorial, you will need to undeploy the VM and delete its NIC, which you can easily do with the Abiquo UI. Or you can create a new VM for this tutorial.
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Modify an entity using the API
Because the VM entity is a special case, we are going to look at two types of modifications: configuring a VM and changing the state of a VM.
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Delete an entity using the API
To delete an entity, simply perform a DELETE request to the API link. But remember that there may be restrictions on what you can delete. For example, you cannot delete a virtual datacenter that contains virtual appliances. If we delete the VM using the following query, it will be removed from the platform (and if it exists on the hypervisor, it will be destroyed). The NIC we added will be detached and released back into the virtual datacenter.
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curl -X DELETE https://nardo40.bcn.abiquo.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/2486/virtualappliances/2990/virtualmachines/19454 \ -H 'Accept: text/json,application/json;' \ -u user:password -k |
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Conclusion
Congratulations, you have now completed the Abiquo API tutorials. You can now continue to experiment using the API together with the UI. And you can find more examples in the API Howtos section.
And of course don't forget to check out the Java and Python libraries. Enjoy!
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