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You will need a JSON file to describe the disk.
The steps below describe how to obtain the values in bold of {TEMPLATE_URL}, {DISK_URL}, and {FOLDER_PATH} from the Abiquo UI.

Try to complete the other disk data as best you can.

{ 
    "virtualMachineTemplateUrl":"{TEMPLATE_URL}",

    "diskUrl":"{DISK_URL}",

    "currentPath":"{FOLDER_PATH}",

    "diskController": "lsilogic",

    "diskControllerType": "SCSI",

    "diskFileFormat":"VMDK_STREAM_OPTIMIZED",

    "diskFilePath": "",

    "label": "Hard disk 1",

    "requiredHDInMB":120,

    
    "sequence":0

}

1. Log in to Abiquo and open developer tools in your browser

2. Go to Network and record requests

3. Select and edit the template.

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4. From the developer tools console, select the request to get the disks.
   Here you will find the:

   1. Template URL and disk URL

   2. Current path on the repository file system

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5. Complete the JSON object with the data from your API. For example, from the values above

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   { "virtualMachineTemplateUrl":"https://mjsabiquo.lab.abiquo.com/admin/enterprises/1/datacenterrepositories/1/virtualmachinetemplates/72", "diskUrl":"https://mjsabiquo.lab.abiquo.com/admin/enterprises/1/datacenterrepositories/1/virtualmachinetemplates/72/disks/74", "currentPath":"1/bundle/e05785d2-b49a-4034-9bb9-3440e1693589-4ba3b6e1-6f06-47d9-8703-9e9/daf2f2fb-d3d0-4263-a466-d1b27a0d6864-new+dsl+disk.vmdk", "diskController": "lsilogic", "diskControllerType": "SCSI", "diskFileFormat":"VMDK_STREAM_OPTIMIZED", "diskFilePath": "", "label": "Hard disk 1", "requiredHDInMB":120, "sequence":0 }

6. Save it to a file called diskReplace.json

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• You will also need an authorization token, which you can get from any recent request.

• Use this to replace the {api_token} in the following steps

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Replace the file

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