Type="VmRestorePoint"

[jgiardina]

With vCD integration, it looks like the API returns "Type="VmRestorePoint" " to any restore point, whenther it be a VM or vApp. Is this by design?

Also, the only difference I see is in the name (which has a partial uuid for VM). Do you plan to do the same for a vApp?

[veremin]

Is this by design?

Yes, it is. Probably, you can use RestoreSpec parameter in order to distinguish between VM and vApp restore points. In the latter case, the said parameter is named vCloudVAppRestoreSpec.

Thanks.

[jgiardina]

Thanks for the info, we will have a look.

[jgiardina]

Just looking at it quick, I don't think that helps, according to documentation you can't add query params to those requests and there is still no way to figure out which vApp it belongs to. It would have to have the uuid somewhere to be useful. Are we incorrect here?

[jgiardina]

Here is an example of the data returned for a VM (which includes vCD UUID):

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<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<VmRestorePoint Href="https://x.x.x.x:9398/api/vmRestorePoints/e2ecda6a-0a8e-4caf-bd66-00e22f70848d?format=Entity" Name="Resource Test Linux (6e3f88e1-5f31-42f4-9f05-1c904db0ce85)@2014-04-04 15:54:58" Type="VmRestorePoint" UID="urn:veeam:VmRestorePoint:e2ecda6a-0a8e-4caf-bd66-00e22f70848d" VmDisplayName="Resource Test Linux" xmlns="http://www.veeam.com/ent/v1.0" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

Here is an example of a vApp (No UUID):

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<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<VmRestorePoint Href="https://x.x.x.x:9398/api/vmRestorePoints/53e69fcc-b644-4864-9bb3-006a10d7f756?format=Entity" Name="Test Disk Rollui@2014-04-05 23:02:49" Type="VmRestorePoint" UID="urn:veeam:VmRestorePoint:53e69fcc-b644-4864-9bb3-006a10d7f756" VmDisplayName="Test Disk Rollup" xmlns="http://www.veeam.com/ent/v1.0" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

Even if the vApp returned a UUID, we would still need to parse for parenthesis which is also not great. We would prefer if we could use something other than "VmDisplayName" to designate a vApp.

It seems like the RestoreSpec you mentioned is just useful on the actual restoration of the vApp, not finding it from a list of available backups.