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To upload an OVA file you will need:
- diskFile
- OVA format with a filename extension of ".ova"
- can contain multiple disks
- no need to provide template metadata, e.g. disk capacity, because this is in the OVF descriptor file
Preparatory steps
Step 1. Retrieve the appliance manager base URI
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curl -X GET https://myabiquo/api/admin/datacenters/1/remoteservices |
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{
"id": 3,
"links": [
{
"href": "https://myabiquo:443/api/admin/remoteservices/3",
"rel": "edit",
"title": "APPLIANCEMANAGER",
"type": "application/vnd.abiquo.remoteservice+json"
},
{
"href": "https://myabiquo:443/api/admin/remoteservices/3/action/check",
"rel": "check",
"title": "check",
"type": ""
},
{
"href": "https://myabiquo:443/api/admin/datacenters/1",
"rel": "datacenter",
"title": "BCDC",
"type": "application/vnd.abiquo.datacenter+json"
}
],
"status": 1,
"type": "APPLIANCE_MANAGER",
"uri": "https://myabiquo:443/am",
"uuid": "Abiquo"
},
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Step 2. For a standard template, specify the template meta-data in JSON or XML
Sample JSON template
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{
"name":"a new template",
"description":"this is a test",
"categoryName":"simpaticos",
"diskFileFormat":"VMDK_FLAT",
"requiredCpu":1,
"requiredHDInMB":2,
"requiredRamInMB":256
} |
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In the returned 'Location' header there is a link to reference the template that was created.
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Check the upload
Get the metadata:
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$ curl --verbose -uadmin:xabiquo -X GET "http://10.60.1.223/am/erepos/1/templates/1/10.60.1.223/1fc06416-6696-4b55-9d7c-d58bc51aaf5a/disk.vmdk" |
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$ curl --verbose -uadmin:xabiquo -X GET "http://10.60.1.223/am/files/1/10.60.1.223/1fc06416-6696-4b55-9d7c-d58bc51aaf5a/disk.vmdk" |
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Identify your template in the API
The relative path (1/10.60.1.223/1fc06416-6696-4b55-9d7c-d58bc51aaf5a/disk.vmdk) should be used to identify the virtual machine template you created in the abiquo API
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