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ThischapterprovidesreferenceinformationabouttheXMLelementsthatsupportadministrativeoperations
inthevCloudAPI.Elementsdocumentedinthischapteraregenerallyreadablebyallusers,butcanbecreated
andmodifiedonlybyasystemadministrator,organizationadministratororotherprivilegeduser.Manyof
theschemasshownhere
extendelementsandcomplextypesthataredefinedintheuserAPI.Formore
informationabouthowthevCloudAPIusesXMLtorepresentobjects,andhowthisreferencematerialis
organized,see“XMLRepresentationsinthevCloud API”onpage 141.
Thischapterprovidesreferencematerialonthefollowingelementsandthe
elementstheycontain:
“VCloud”onpage 179
“ExternalNetwork”onpage 180
“A d m i n O r g ” onpage 180
“ProviderVdc”onpage 186
“User”onpage 190
“Group”onpage 191
“Role”onpage 191
VCloud
ThevCloudelementisaread‐onlycontainerforreferencestotop‐levelobjectsinavCloudinstance.
Content-Type application/vnd.vmware.admin.vcloud+xml
Object href prototype API‐URL/admin
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Schema
Name Min Max Type Description
OrganizationReferences 0 1 OrganizationReferencesType AcontainerforreferencestoAdminOrgobjects
inthevCloud
ProviderVdcReferences 0 1 ProviderVdcReferencesType AcontainerforreferencestoProviderVdc
objectsinthevCloud
RightReferences 0 1 RightReferencesType AcontainerforreferencestoRightobjectsin
thevCloud
RoleReferences 0 1 RoleReferencesType AcontainerforreferencestoRoleobjectsin
thevCloud
Networks 01 NetworksType Acontainerforreferencesto
ExternalNetworkobjectsinthevCloud.