Developer Documentation
Create Datacenter
Create a new datacenter in the vCenter inventory
Request
URLURL
https://{api_host}/rest/vcenter/datacenter
Request Body
Request Body
Contains
CreateRequestBody
of type application/json
(required)
{
"spec": {
"folder": "string",
"name": "string"
}
}| Required | Property Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| required | spec | DatacenterCreateSpec |
Specification for the new datacenter to be created. |
Response
Response
Response BodyResponse Body
200 OK returns
CreateResponseBody
of type application/json
This structure was autogenerated to hold a response body. It contains: The identifier of the newly created datacenter The result will be an identifier for the resource type: Datacenter.
{
"value": "string"
}| Property Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| value | string |
The identifier of the newly created datacenter The result will be an identifier for the resource type: Datacenter. |
Errors
| Code | Returns | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | Error | 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. |
| 401 | Error | com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.unauthenticated : if the user can not be authenticated. | com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.unauthorized : if the user doesn't have the required privileges. |
| 404 | Error | com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.error : if the system reports an error while responding to the request. | com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.not_found : if the datacenter folder cannot be found. |
| 409 | Error | com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.already_exists : if the datacenter with the same name is already present. |
| 503 | Error | com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.service_unavailable : if the system is unable to communicate with a service to complete the request. |
| default | Error | Not available |
