Which Guest OSes Are Supported In vCloud Director?

Similar to my previous blog post for vSphere, you can now programmatically retrieve the list of supported guest OSes for vCloud Director 5.1 if you are looking to build your own custom provisioning solution or portal. You no longer have to create a static list and you can now dynamically generate the list of supported guest OSes, their supported configurations and capabilities as seen in the vCloud Director UI. In the vCloud 5.1 API you can view the list of supported guestOSes by performing a GET operation on the following URL:

https://[VCD-URL]/api/supportedSystemsInfo

1	https://[VCD-URL]/api/supportedSystemsInfo

Here is an example output of what you would see:

    &lt;OperatingSystemFamilyInfo&gt;
        &lt;Name&gt;Microsoft Windows&lt;/Name&gt;
        &lt;OperatingSystemFamilyId&gt;1&lt;/OperatingSystemFamilyId&gt;
        &lt;OperatingSystem&gt;
            &lt;OperatingSystemId&gt;85&lt;/OperatingSystemId&gt;
            &lt;DefaultHardDiskAdapterType&gt;4&lt;/DefaultHardDiskAdapterType&gt;
            &lt;MinimumHardDiskSizeGigabytes&gt;40&lt;/MinimumHardDiskSizeGigabytes&gt;
            &lt;MinimumMemoryMegabytes&gt;512&lt;/MinimumMemoryMegabytes&gt;
            &lt;Name&gt;Microsoft Windows Server 2012 (64-bit)&lt;/Name&gt;
            &lt;InternalName&gt;windows8Server64Guest&lt;/InternalName&gt;
            &lt;Supported&gt;true&lt;/Supported&gt;
            &lt;x64&gt;true&lt;/x64&gt;
            &lt;MaximumCpuCount&gt;64&lt;/MaximumCpuCount&gt;
            &lt;MinimumHardwareVersion&gt;8&lt;/MinimumHardwareVersion&gt;
            &lt;PersonalizationEnabled&gt;true&lt;/PersonalizationEnabled&gt;
            &lt;PersonalizationAuto&gt;true&lt;/PersonalizationAuto&gt;
            &lt;SysprepPackagingSupported&gt;true&lt;/SysprepPackagingSupported&gt;
            &lt;SupportsMemHotAdd&gt;true&lt;/SupportsMemHotAdd&gt;
            &lt;cimOsId&gt;74&lt;/cimOsId&gt;
            &lt;CimVersion&gt;0&lt;/CimVersion&gt;
            &lt;SupportedForCreate&gt;true&lt;/SupportedForCreate&gt;
        &lt;/OperatingSystem&gt;
    &lt;OperatingSystem&gt;
    ...
    ...