Compute

vCloud Air Network Management with vca-cli

This section describes the compute service operations available through vca-cli

Compute Commands

The following is a list of compute service related commands:

vapp      Operations with vApps
vm        Operations with VMs

vApp Operations

A vApp can be created by specifying an existing template. Here is an example:

vca vapp create --vapp myvapp --vm myvm \
    --catalog 'Public Catalog' --template 'Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS (amd64 20150127)' \
    --network default-routed-network --mode pool

It is possible to create more than one instances from a template by using the count parameter. The following example creates 10 virtual machines from a template:

vca vapp create --vapp myvapp --vm myvm \
    --catalog 'Public Catalog' --template 'Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS (amd64 20150127)' \
    --network default-routed-network --mode pool \
    --count 10

The new VM instance can be customize as part of the create command by specifying the number of virtual CPUs and size of the memory (in MB). Here is an example of creating a virtual machine with 4 virtual CPUs and 8 Gigs of RAM:

vca vapp create --vapp myvapp --vm myvm \
    --catalog 'Public Catalog' --template 'Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS (amd64 20150127)' \
    --network default-routed-network --mode pool \
    --cpu 4 --ram 8192