To create a storage profile, you make a POST request with a region ID associated with a cloud account. The request body includes an Amazon Web Services fabric volume type.

As an alternative to using the storage-profiles API call to create an Amazon Web Services storage profile, you can also use the storage-profiles-aws API call. Optional procedure steps show how to use the storage-profiles-aws API call. The example only includes the steps required to create an Amazon Web Services storage profile using the storage-profiles API call.

Prerequisites

  • Verify that all general prerequisites and prerequisites for the Automation Assembler Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) service have been satisfied. See Prerequisites for API Use Case Examples.
  • Verify that you have the cloud account ID for the new cloud account that you added. See Adding Cloud Accounts.

Procedure

  1. Assign the cloud account ID variable. 
    aws_cloud_account_id='<your_cloud_account_id>'
  2. Look up region IDs associated with the cloud account and in the external region ID us-east-1. 
    curl -X GET -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" "$url/iaas/api/regions/?apiVersion=$api_version&"'$filter'"=externalRegionId%20eq%20'us-east-1'%20and%20cloudAccountId%20eq%20'"$aws_cloud_account_id"'"  | jq "."
  3. Examine the response to find the ID for the region that you want.
  4. Assign the region ID variable. 
    aws_region_id='<your_region_id>'
  5. List all Amazon Web Services fabric volume types. 
    curl -X GET -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" "$url/iaas/api/fabric-aws-volume-types/?apiVersion=$api_version" | jq "."
  6. To select a volume type, examine the response.
  7. Create a storage profile for the selected region. 
    curl -X POST \
  $url/iaas/api/storage-profiles?apiVersion=$api_version \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" \
  -d '{
    "defaultItem": false,
    "supportsEncryption": false,
    "tags": [ { "key": "env", "value": "dev" } ],
    "diskProperties": {
      "deviceType": "ebs",
      "volumeType": "<volume_type_from_response>",
      "iops": "400"
    },
    "regionId": "'$region_id'",
    "name": "<your-aws-storage-profile>",
    "description": "Example AWS storage profile"
}' | jq "."
  8. (Optional) Create a storage profile for the selected region using the storage-profiles-aws API call. 
    curl -X POST \ 
  $url/iaas/api/storage-profiles-aws?apiVersion=$api_version \ 
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ 
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" \ 
  -d '{
    "defaultItem": false, 
    "supportsEncryption": false, 
    "tags": [ { "key": "env", "value": "dev" } ] 
    "deviceType": "ebs", 
    "volumeType": "<volume_type_from_response>", 
    "iops": "1000", 
    "regionId": "'$region_id'", 
    "name": "<your-aws-storage-profile>",
    "description": "Example AWS storage profile"
}' | jq "."
  9. To obtain the storage profile ID, examine the response.
  10. Assign the storage profile ID variable. 
    aws_storage_profile_id='<your_storage_profile_id>'
  11. (Optional) Look up the storage profile you created with your storage profile ID. 
    curl -X GET -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" $url/iaas/api/storage-profiles/$aws_storage_profile_id?apiVersion=$api_version | jq "."
    The response shows the name and ID for the storage profile you created.
    Note: Using the external region ID and the cloud account ID, you can also filter for the storage profile with a query that does not require the storage profile ID. See Filtering Resources by Region ID.
  12. (Optional) List all storage profiles using the storage-profiles-aws API call. 
    curl -X GET -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" $url/iaas/api/storage-profiles-aws?apiVersion=$api_version | jq "."
  13. (Optional) Delete an Amazon Web Services storage profile. Alternatively, you can use the storage-profiles-aws API call. 
    curl -X DELETE -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" $url/iaas/api/storage-profiles/$aws_storage_profile_id?apiVersion=$api_version | jq "."

Example: Create an Amazon Web Services storage profile

Assign the required variables including the cloud account ID for an Amazon Web Services cloud account.
Note: If your organization uses an API service that is hosted outside of the United States, your URL variable must include a country abbreviation. See Regional Endpoints for VMware Aria Automation APIs. 
$ url='https://api.mgmt.cloud.vmware.com'
$ api_version='2021-07-15'
$ aws_cloud_account_id='c8c3c9bfdb449475-7f703c5265a63d87-5fa34c478df36b060e1ca3551254c403301
3bf3283908e4661cd1c6fb2f8b9ae-ce5aad01092b47558644f6b6615d'

Look up region IDs associated with the cloud account and in the external region ID us-east-1.

$ curl -X GET -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" "$url/iaas/api/regions/?apiVersion=$api_version&"'$filter'"=externalRegionId%20eq%20'us-east-1'%20and%20cloudAccountId%20eq%20'"$aws_cloud_account_id"'"  | jq "."

A snippet of the response shows the region ID.

...      
      "externalRegionId": "us-east-1",
      "cloudAccountId": "c8c3c9bfdb449475-7f703c5265a63d87-5fa34c478df36b060e1ca3551254c4033013bf3283908e4661cd1c6fb2f8b9ae-ce5aad01092b47558644f6b6615d",
      "id": "37d6c1acf4a8275586468873c739",
      "updatedAt": "2022-04-02",
...

Assign the Amazon Web Services region ID.

$ aws_region_id='37d6c1acf4a8275586468873c739'

List all Amazon Web Services fabric volume types.

$ curl -X GET -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" "$url/iaas/api/fabric-aws-volume-types/?apiVersion=$api_version" | jq "."

A snippet of the response shows the volume types.

...      
{
  "volumeTypes": [
    "standard",
    "io1",
    "gp2",
    "sc1",
    "st1"
  ]
},
...

Select volume type and create an AWS storage profile named aws-storage-profile.

$ curl -X POST \
  $url/iaas/api/storage-profiles?apiVersion=$api_version \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" \
  -d '{
    "defaultItem": false,
    "supportsEncryption": false,
    "tags": [ { "key": "env", "value": "dev" } ],
    "diskProperties": {
      "deviceType": "ebs",
      "volumeType": "io1",
      "iops": "400"
    },
    "regionId": "'$aws_region_id'",
    "name": "aws-storage-profile",
    "description": "Example AWS storage profile"
    "regionId":"'$aws_region_id'"
  }' | jq "."

A snippet of the response shows the storage profile ID.

...      
  "externalRegionId": "us-east-1",
  "name": "aws-storage-profile",
  "description": "Example AWS storage profile",
  "id": "3e3dc378-a090-4b7e-af41-57b1735d9526",
  "createdAt": "2022-04-02",
  "updatedAt": "2022-04-02",
...