Hi justinl123,
Have you seen this post? Was it helpful or is it not what you’re looking for?
Hey Alona,
Kind of. I want to programmatically create a VM with name XYZ and also put that name XYZ in the hostname: field of your Custom Script (i.e. cloud-init). That way, we can call the script, say 10 times and increment the hostname i.e. XYZ01, XYZ02, XYZ03, … and the VM will be named appropriately, as well as the guest hostname.
That way we can stamp out n number of VMs in one go, by running one script passing in a hostname prefix.
This is more along the lines of what I want to do, but without the Calm integration. When I get a chance, I’ll look at scripting a REST API call that also builds, and base64 encodes the cloud-init ‘user data’ portion with matching hostnames.
Oh, I see! There is also this KB AHV: Ubuntu Cloud Image VM creation option 2 of which goes through creating and configuring a VM via REST API call through Prism Central using curl.
Ah yep, exactly that with a wrapper script around it to automate the steps, accepting a parameter for hostname!
Many Thanks!
Great! Glad that was helpful :)