Logging in to the VMware vCloud Director API

Note: Using a REST client is necessary to obtain or verify some of the configuration information.

 

To obtain the vCloud Director URL:

1. Log in to the VMware vCloud Air portal.
2. Click a virtual datacenter to open it.
3. Under Related Links, click vCloud Director URL.
   
   Note: The URL looks similar to https://p1v17-vcd.vCouldAir.vmware.com:443/cloud/org/21-170/. For the purposes of this article, the "vcloud-url" is everything before the 443, but note the org name (21-170 in this example) as it is used in the example later.

To query the vCloud Director API versions:

1. Open a REST client of choice.
2. Issue a GET request to https://vcloud-url/api/versions.
3. Locate the LoginUrl item(s) to verify the URL to use with the version of the API you want to work with. For example:
   
   <VersionInfo>
   <Version>5.1</Version>
   <LoginUrl>https://p1v17-vcd.vCloudAir.vmware.com:443/api/sessions</LoginUrl> 
   
   
4. Note the LoginURL.