Mike, I don't recognise the commands you talk about, `networkids` and `nicnetworklist`. Can you give links to APIs in [1], please? There are some API that are not generic over hypervisors, but these should be well documented and really only very few.
[1] https://cloudstack.apache.org/api/apidocs-4.15/ On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 2:27 PM Corey, Mike <mike.co...@sap.com.invalid> wrote: > Hello - sending again in hopes of getting some feedback on the API > question. > > Thanks! > > Mike > > From: Corey, Mike <mike.co...@sap.com.INVALID> > Sent: Monday, September 27, 2021 12:18 PM > To: d...@cloudstack.apache.org; users@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: [CAUTION] API Command Question for "networkids" > > Hi, > > Our self-service portal developers found that they cannot "port" code from > the current landscape running on XenServer with the new VMWare landscape > recently built. There are some APIs that look to have changed and/or are > specific to VMware hypervisors. > > The two APIs in question are the "networkids" and "nicnetworklist" > commands. The command API "networkids" works from the self-service portal > when deploying to XenServer; however that same line of code does NOT > configure the correct network settings (assigns to wrong guest network) > when deploying to a VMware hypervisor. > > Digging into the logs we found that when deploying a VM from the ACS UI to > VMware, the command "nicnetworklist" is now used when deploying to VMware > hypervisor. > > 1 - Is there API command that is "hypervisor-agnostic" or can be used > against both XenServer and VMware? > 2 - The VMware API references a NIC ID of "8" > ("nicnetworklist[0].nic":"8",). Is this arbitrary or will each ACS > management server (or region, or zone) use a different ID? > > * This could be a problem if our self-service services multiple > regions/zones. > 3 - Is there a global setting or other hidden setting that can be set so > that ONE API Command works against both XenServer and VMware? > > Many thanks! > > Mike > > > > > > Mike Corey > > Technology Senior Consultant, IT CS CTW Operation & Virtualization Service > US > > SAP AMERICA, INC. 3999 West Chester Pike, Newtown Square, 19073 United > States > > T +1 610 661 0905, M +1 484 274 2658, E mike.co...@sap.com<mailto: > mike.co...@sap.com> > > > [cid:image003.png@01D7B399.B29A8C00] > > > -- Daan
