6.3 What’s New in the vCloud Director 5.1 API
vCloud Director 5.1 provides the following new features, and APIs have been updated accordingly:
Query Service
– U
seful when searching for resources. You do not have
to traverse the resource tree to find specific children nodes. Metadata Tagging
– Annotate vCloud resources with user-defined me
tadata. Block Tasks and Notifications
– This feature relates to the messages published and consumed by vCloud Director.
In blocking tasks, the system waits for a
user to take an action. For example, if a manager must
provide approval
when a devel
oper requests vCloud resources, a blocking task might
be created.
When
a
developer deploys a vApp,
the manager is
notified and must approve
before proceeding with deployment.In notifications, also called non-blocking events, a message is sent to the
event’s Advanced Message Queuing
Protocol (AMQP)
broker.