Properties for Environment Operations

To deploy or import a product, environment operation requests have common properties. For the properties that apply to your product deployment or import, refer to the request body examples:

Table 1. Common Properties of Environment Operations
Property description How used
Disk Mode
  • Thin deployments: "diskMode": "thin"
  • Thick deployments: "diskMode": "thick"
Integrate with vIDM
  • "masterVidmEnabled": "true"
  • "masterVidmEnabled": "false"
Time Sync Mode
  • "timeSyncMode": "host"
  • "timeSyncMode": "ntp"
"ntp": "ntp1.eng.mycompany.com", "ntp2.eng.mycompany.com"
Note: For NTP, a second line lists the hostnames of NTP servers separated by commas.
vRealize Operations Manager deployment types for the primary, replica (HA), or data nodes.
  • Extra small: "deployOption": "xsmall"
  • Small: "deployOption": "small"
  • Medium: "deployOption": "medium"
  • Large: "deployOption": "large"
  • Extra large: "deployOption": "xlarge"
vRealize Operations Manager deployment types for the remote collector node.
  • "deployOption": "smallrc"
  • "deployOption": "largerc"
vRealize Log Insight deployment types.
  • Small: "nodeSize": "small"
  • Medium: "nodeSize": "medium"
  • Large: "nodeSize": "large"
Locker items

Create locker items such as password, certificates, and licenses using the Locker Password Controller, Locker Certificates Controller, and Locker License Controller APIs.

To obtain the VMID and alias, list paginated certificates using the Locker Operations API:

GET /lcm/locker/api/v2/certificates

For details about each API, see the Swagger doc at https://$vRLCM/api/swagger-ui.html.
  • Password: "locker:password:<vmid>:<alias>"
  • Certificate: "locker:certificate:<vmid>:<alias>"
  • License: "locker:license:<vmid>:<alias>"