1. Operations
  2. vcenter
  3. vm
  4. hardware
  5. boot
  6. device

vcenter vm hardware boot device: set

Sets the virtual devices that will be used to boot the virtual machine. The virtual machine will check the devices in order, attempting to boot from each, until the virtual machine boots successfully. If the array is empty, the virtual machine will use a default boot sequence. There should be no more than one instance of vcenter.vm.hardware.boot.device.entry for a given device type except ETHERNET in the array.

Request:

HTTP request

PUT https://{server}/rest/vcenter/vm/{vm}/hardware/boot/device

Path Parameters

Name Type Description
Required
vm string Virtual machine identifier.

Request Body Structure:

{
    "devices": [
        {
            "disks": [
                "obj-103",
                "obj-103"
            ],
            "nic": "obj-103",
            "type": "CDROM"
        },
        {
            "disks": [
                "obj-103",
                "obj-103"
            ],
            "nic": "obj-103",
            "type": "CDROM"
        }
    ]
}
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<ns0:Set-Input xmlns:ns0="http://vmware.com/vcenter/vm/hardware/boot/device" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <devices-array>
    <array-item>
      <nic>obj-103</nic>
      <type>CDROM</type>
      <disks-array>
        <array-item>obj-103</array-item>
        <array-item>obj-103</array-item>
      </disks-array>
    </array-item>
    <array-item>
      <nic>obj-103</nic>
      <type>CDROM</type>
      <disks-array>
        <array-item>obj-103</array-item>
        <array-item>obj-103</array-item>
      </disks-array>
    </array-item>
  </devices-array>
</ns0:Set-Input>

Request Body Parameters:

Name Type Description
bold = required
devices entry[] Ordered list of boot devices.
devices[].type string Virtual device type.

Defines the valid device types that may be used as bootable devices. Value is one of:
CDROM: Virtual CD-ROM device.
DISK: Virtual disk device.
ETHERNET: Virtual Ethernet adapter.
FLOPPY: Virtual floppy drive.
devices[].nic string Virtual Ethernet device. Ethernet device to use as boot device for this entry.

Optional. It is only relevant when type has value ETHERNET. This field is optional and it is only relevant when the value of type is ETHERNET.When clients pass a value of this structure as a parameter, the field must be an identifier for the resource type: com.vmware.vcenter.vm.hardware.Ethernet. When operations return a value of this structure as a result, the field will be an identifier for the resource type: com.vmware.vcenter.vm.hardware.Ethernet.
devices[].disks string[] Virtual disk device. List of virtual disks in boot order.

Optional. It is only relevant when type has value DISK. This field is optional and it is only relevant when the value of type is DISK.When clients pass a value of this structure as a parameter, the field must contain identifiers for the resource type: com.vmware.vcenter.vm.hardware.Disk. When operations return a value of this structure as a result, the field will contain identifiers for the resource type: com.vmware.vcenter.vm.hardware.Disk.

Response:

HTTP Status Code: 200

None

Errors:

HTTP Status Code Type Description
500 error if the system reports an error while responding to the request.
404 not_found if the virtual machine is not found, or if any of the specified virtual devices is not found.
400 invalid_argument if a any of the CDROM, DISK, ETHERNET, FLOPPY values appears in more than one entry with the exception of ETHERNET, which may appear multiple times if the virtual machine has been configured with multiple Ethernet adapters.
400 resource_busy if the virtual machine is busy performing another operation.
400 resource_inaccessible if the virtual machine's configuration state cannot be accessed.
503 service_unavailable if the system is unable to communicate with a service to complete the request.
401 unauthenticated if the user can not be authenticated.
403 unauthorized if the user doesn't have the required privileges.