Create Clusters Software Drafts
DescriptionCreates 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, obtained by first calling Create Session API
vmware-api-session-id example
b00db39f948d13ea1e59b4d6fce56389
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.
cURL Command
curl -X POST -H "vmware-api-session-id: b00db39f948d13ea1e59b4d6fce56389" https://{api_host}/api/esx/settings/clusters/{cluster}/software/drafts
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.
Availability
Added in 7.0.0
