Create Clusters Software Drafts
Creates a new software draft from the desired document. It will be deleted, when the draft is committed successfully. If a desired document is missing, then this operation will create an empty draft. if you do not have all of the privileges described as follows: - Operation execution requires VcIntegrity.lifecycleSoftwareSpecification.Write. - The resource ClusterComputeResource referenced by the parameter cluster requires VcIntegrity.lifecycleSoftwareSpecification.Write.
Request
URLURL
https://{api_host}/api/esx/settings/clusters/{cluster}/software/drafts
Path Parameters
Path Parameters
string
cluster
Required
Identifier of the cluster The parameter must be an identifier for the resource type: ClusterComputeResource.
Header Parameters
Header Parameters
string
vmware-api-session-id
Required
Required session ID, acquired from Create Session API under CIS product
vmware-api-session-id example
"b00db39f948d13ea1e59b4d6fce56389"
Authentication
This operation uses the following authentication methods.
Response
Response
Response BodyResponse Body
201 Created returns
string
of type application/json
Identifier of the working copy of the document. The result will be an identifier for the resource type: com.vmware.esx.settings.draft.
Errors
400
com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.already_exists : If there is already a draft created by this user.
404
com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.not_found : If there is no cluster associated with cluster in the system.
500
com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.error : If there is unknown internal error. The accompanying error message will give more details about the failure.
default
‘Default’ means this response is used for all HTTP codes that are not covered individually for this operation.
Code Samples
PowerCLI Client SDK Example
Invoke-CreateClusterSoftwareDrafts -Cluster "MyCluster"
cURL Command
curl -X POST -H "vmware-api-session-id: b00db39f948d13ea1e59b4d6fce56389" https://{api_host}/api/esx/settings/clusters/{cluster}/software/drafts
Vendor Extensions
This operation contains the following vendor extensions defined in the spec:
x-vmw-doc-operation: create
Availability
Added in 7.0.0.0
