Create Datacenter Deprecated
Create a new datacenter in the vCenter inventory
Request
URLURL
https://{api_host}/rest/vcenter/datacenter
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"
Request Body
Request Body
DatacenterCreateRequestBody of mimetype application/json
Required
This is a request body class for an operation.
(The request body parameter is missing description)
{
"spec": {
"folder": "string",
"name": "string"
}
}
Authentication
This operation uses the following authentication methods.
Response
Response
Response BodyResponse Body
200 OK returns
DatacenterCreateResponseBody of type application/json
The identifier of the newly created datacenter The result will be an identifier for the resource type: Datacenter.
{
"value": "string"
}
string
value
Optional
The identifier of the newly created datacenter The result will be an identifier for the resource type: Datacenter.
Errors
400
com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.already_exists : if a datacenter with the same name is already present. | com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.invalid_argument : if the datacenter name is empty or invalid as per the underlying implementation. if the folder is not specified and the system cannot choose a suitable one.
403
com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.unauthorized : if the user doesn’t have the required privileges.
500
com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.error : if the system reports an error while responding to the request.
503
com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.service_unavailable : if the system is unable to communicate with a service to complete the request.
default
‘Default’ means this response is used for all HTTP codes that are not covered individually for this operation.
Code Samples
cURL Command
curl -X POST -H "vmware-api-session-id: b00db39f948d13ea1e59b4d6fce56389" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"spec":{"folder":"string","name":"string"}}' https://{api_host}/rest/vcenter/datacenter
Vendor Extensions
This operation contains the following vendor extensions defined in the spec:
x-vmw-doc-new-method: post
x-vmw-doc-new-path: /api/vcenter/datacenter
x-vmw-doc-operation: create
