Retrieve or Update the VDC Compute Policy of a Virtual Machine

You can change the VDC compute policy of a virtual machine by sending a PUT request to the reconfigureVm link of the virtual machine.

For information about VDC compute policies, see Managing VM-Host Affinity Rules.

Prerequisites

• You must be a system administrator, organization administrator, vApp Author, or vApp User.
• The system administrator published the new VDC compute policy to the organization VDC of the target virtual machine.

Procedure

1. Retrieve the Vm element of the target virtual machine.
   For example, use a request similar to:

   GET https://vcloud.example.com/api/vApp/vm-75

   The VdcComputePolicy element references the current VDC compute policy of the virtual machine.
2. To update the VDC compute policy, modify the retrieved Vm element by editing the VdcComputePolicy reference.
   For example, modify the Vm element similar to:

   <Vm
      xmlns="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5"
      ...
         <VCloudExtension required="false">
      ...
      <VdcComputePolicy
         href="https://vcloud.example.com/cloudapi/1.0.0/vdcComputePolicies/51"
         id="51"
         name="oracle_license"
         type="application/json"/>
      ...
   </Vm> 

3. Use the modified Vm element as the body of a reconfigureVm request.
   For example, use a request similar to:

   PUT https://vcloud.example.com/api/vApp/vm-75/action/reconfigureVm
   type="application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.vm+xml
   ...
   <Vm
      ...
      <VdcComputePolicy
         .../>
      ...
   </Vm>
   

Results

The placement engine moves the virtual machine to the corresponding VM group of the new VDC compute policy.