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Schema (Continued)
Name

Section

Children
Vm
A Vm represents a virtual machine, a member of a vApp's Children container.
Content-Type application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.vApp+xml
Object href prototype API‐URL/vAppTemplate/vm‐id or API‐URL/vApp/vm‐id
Schema
Name
deployed
status
name
any attribute name
Link
Description
Tasks
VAppParent
Section
VAppScopedLocalId
Section
A VAppTemplate, VApp, and Vm can contain an arbitrary number of ovf:SectionType elements. In a vApp or
Vm, some of these elements can be specified as instantiation parameters. The others are copied from the source
OVF Envelope and treated as read‐only by the vCloud API.
The following section types are allowed in a vApp or vAppTemplate:

LeaseSettingsSection

StartupSection

NetworkConfigSection

CustomizationSection
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Min Max Type
0 n ovf:Section_Type
0 n VAppChildrenType
Min Max Type
0 1 xs:boolean
0 1 xs:int
1 1 xs:string
0 n any
0 n LinkType
0 1 xs:string
0 1 TasksInProgressType
0 1 ReferenceType
0 n ovf:Section_Type
0 1 xs:string
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Description
Any of the following ovf:Section_Type elements:

LeaseSettingsSection

StartupSection
 NetworkConfigSection
 CustomizationSection
Read‐only container for Vm elements representing
virtual machines
Description
True if the Vm is deployed
Creation status of the Vm
Common object name attribute
Includes type, href, XML namespace identifiers
Action links to operations
Optional description
Read‐only container for Task elements. Each element
in the container represents a queued, running, or
failed task owned by this object.
Unsupported in this release
Any of the following ovf:Section_Type elements:

VirtualHardwareSection
 OperatingSystemSection
 NetworkConnectionSection

GuestCustomizationSection
Read‐only identifier created on import or composition
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