Guest Customization Specs APIs
The CustomizationSpecs service provides operations to manage guest customization specifications in the vCenter Server.
Operations
POST
Create Guest Customization Specs
Creates a customization specification.
if you do not have all of the privileges described as follows:
- Operation execution requires VirtualMachine.Provisioning.ModifyCustSpecs.
GET
List Guest Customization Specs
Returns information about at most 1000 visible (subject to permission checks) guest customization specifications in vCenter matching the CustomizationSpecs.FilterSpec.
if you do not have all of the privileges described as follows:
- Operation execution requires VirtualMachine.Provisioning.ReadCustSpecs.
DELETE
Delete Name Guest Customization Specs
Deletes a customization specification with the specified identifier.
if you do not have all of the privileges described as follows:
- Operation execution requires VirtualMachine.Provisioning.ModifyCustSpecs.
GET
Get Name Guest Customization Specs
Returns the guest customization specification from vCenter with the specified identifier.
if you do not have all of the privileges described as follows:
- Operation execution requires VirtualMachine.Provisioning.ReadCustSpecs.
PUT
Set Name Guest Customization Specs
Sets an existing specification, possibly after retrieving (by using CustomizationSpecs.get) and editing it.
if you do not have all of the privileges described as follows:
- Operation execution requires VirtualMachine.Provisioning.ModifyCustSpecs.
POST
Export Name Customization Specs
Returns the content of the customization specification in the specified format. Note that any passwords in the customization specification will be set to blank values during the export operation.
if you do not have all of the privileges described as follows:
- Operation execution requires VirtualMachine.Provisioning.ReadCustSpecs.
POST
Import Guest Customization Specs
Converts a well formatted string to a CustomizationSpecs.CreateSpec. The resulting object can be passed to CustomizationSpecs.create operation.
if you do not have all of the privileges described as follows:
- Operation execution requires VirtualMachine.Provisioning.ModifyCustSpecs.