The ibm-cloud-infrastructure tag refers to all of the IaaS services on IBM Cloud that were previously provided under SoftLayer. These services are now available in the Infrastructure section of the IBM Cloud catalog, which is available at the following URL: https://cloud.ibm.com/classic
Questions tagged [ibm-cloud-infrastructure]
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How can I tell if a VM is on Xen 6 hypervisor
How can I tell if a virtual guest is on a Xen 6 hypervisor using the REST API https://api.softlayer.com/rest/v3/SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest/.json?
Thanks

Gary Sutherland
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how to order hardware servers with different package id's with a single API call
How can I order several SoftLayer baremetal servers that have differing package IDs with a single order/API call?
UPDATE: Added details below, hopefully it will add clarity to what I am trying to do.
The 2 data structures below are…

pgra
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softlayer api: reload os with provate image failed:Selected image is incompatible with this guest
I used virtual_guest.verifyReloadOperatingSystem(reload_config,id=instance_id) to do check before executing reload api. verifyReloadOperatingSystem raise exception as:
SoftLayerAPIError(SoftLayer_Exception_Public): Selected image is
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Lippman S
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How to get "PDF" file from the binary data of SoftLayer's quote?
I got the binary data by "getPdf" method of SoftLayer's API.
Ref.
BillingSoftLayer_Billing_Order_Quote::getPdf | SoftLayer Development Network - http://sldn.softlayer.com/reference/services/SoftLayer_Billing_Order_Quote/getPdf
Then I wanna create…

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Export IPs from VMs running on Softlayer host
I would like to link up the IPs we have through Softlayer to their corresponding VM running in our various hosts.
IP inventory hasnt been the best.
I can use powershell to get the IPs and the VM names, but then it's data entry.
Can I gather this…

Battles
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How to create a reverse DNS record with SoftLayer api?
Wandering how to do it in java.
Example in other language would be helpful too.
Looked at api docs and java-client docs.
Somewhat helpful was this, but that does not show how what is required content of…

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Subnet error while ordering baremetal server
I use the following json parameters to order a Baremetal server
`{
"parameters": [
{
"location": "449494",
"packageId": 257,
"hardware": [
{
"hostname": "BMtest1",
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yash nigam
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SoftLayer API error - Invalid price id for 960 GB SSD in dal10
I am trying to order a monthly bare metal server with multiple 960GB SSDs and am getting the following API error
SoftLayerAPIError(SoftLayer_Exception_Public): The price for 960 GB SSD (3 DWPD) (#156775) is not valid for location dal10.
I see the…

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Static IP Option in SL
I am implementing Order IP Address using SL java API.
After the option for static IP has been chosen, subnet and IP information are listed to assign ordered IPs. Please check the image I've captured.
What java api can i use to get the subnet, Vlan,…

Mike Oh
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order vyatta failed via api. error id 236
We sent an API call to order Vyatta in account 910593. This API worked well before but failed this time. We got this error message:
"The price 20000 GB Bandwidth (33867) is not valid for package
(236)."
Below is our request body:
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Zach
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what is the API (REST) to find out whether bare metal server provisioned or not?
According to SLDn of softlayer Softlayer_hardware/some id/getObjects?mask with domain name and Vm name will give provision status.But when I make RESt call with same I get 200 ok but xml output hass error.
Please let me know how can I get VM…

Ishwar
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How to manage users from API on PHP
Thanks for your help!! We have 2 more thing for need your Help.
how to generate when function making new users
please tell reference of UserStatusId
maybe 1001=active;
in portal, we can see active,disable,inactive and vpn only.
please tell us…
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Provisioning a Virtual Server with 1TB HDD
I need to provision a server through API with the configuration of
RAM:16GB,
OS: Centos5.6 Quad Core 64 bit,
HDD:1TB.
API request which I used
https://api.softlayer.com/rest/v3/SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest/createObject.json
Request Post…

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Creating and recognition of a vGPU device
I am trying to create a VSI with vGPU. What field in the JSON payload do I pass in on the POST to create a vGPU VSI? What field in the JSON payload do I interrogate on a get that indicates the VSI is a vGPU device?

Gary Sutherland
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C# SoftLayer API
I was trying to create C# application that loads SoftLayer Billing data to my Database. I was trying to bring only filtered Billing data using ObjectFilter. For example, I wanted to bring only invoice ID of 12345.
Can someone help complete the code…
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