Vcenter Lcm Deployment Common OvaInfo

The Vcenter Lcm Deployment Common OvaInfo schema defines the OVA file location info to be used by the lifecycle service.

This schema was added in vSphere API 9.0.0.0.

JSON Example

{
    "location": "string",
    "ssl_verify": false,
    "ova_checksum": "string",
    "ova_checksum_algorithm": "string",
    "certificate": "string"
}

string As uri As uri

location

Required

The location of the OVA file for installation. It can be web URL or absolute filepath i.e https://server.com/appliance.ova or file://storage/appliance.ova

This property was added in vSphere API 9.0.0.0.

boolean

ssl_verify

Optional

A flag to indicate whether SSL verification is required for the ova location.

This property was added in vSphere API 9.0.0.0.

If missing or null defaults to True

string

ova_checksum

Optional

Checksum to validate the OVA file.

This property was added in vSphere API 9.0.0.0.

If set will be used for checksum validation of the ova file on the vCenter.

string

ova_checksum_algorithm

Optional

The hash algorithm (HashAlgorithm) used to calculate the checksum.

For more information see: Vcenter Lcm Deployment Common HashAlgorithm.

This property was added in vSphere API 9.0.0.0.

If not specified the default checksum algorithm is Vcenter Lcm Deployment Common HashAlgorithm.SH_a256.

string

certificate

Optional

Certificate to verify the SSL OVA location. The value should be the x509 leaf certificate encoded in PEM format.

If ssl_verify is true and this field is omitted. a CA based validation will be used.
If ssl_verify is true and this field is provided will be used for SSL validation.

This property was added in vSphere API 9.0.0.0.

If set will be used for SSL validation.