CapacityManager

class SoftLayer.managers.CapacityManager(client, ordering_manager=None)

Manages SoftLayer Reserved Capacity Groups.

Product Information

• https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/virtual-servers?topic=virtual-servers-about-reserved-virtual-servers

• https://softlayer.github.io/reference/services/SoftLayer_Virtual_ReservedCapacityGroup/

• https://softlayer.github.io/reference/services/SoftLayer_Virtual_ReservedCapacityGroup_Instance/

Parameters:

• client (SoftLayer.API.BaseClient) – the client instance

• ordering_manager (SoftLayer.managers.OrderingManager) – an optional manager to handle ordering. If none is provided, one will be auto initialized.

__init__(client, ordering_manager=None)

Methods

__init__(client[, ordering_manager])
create(name, backend_router_id, flavor, ...)	Orders a Virtual_ReservedCapacityGroup
create_guest(capacity_id, test, guest_object)	Turns an empty Reserve Capacity into a real Virtual Guest
get_available_routers([dc])	Pulls down all backendRouterIds that are available
get_create_options()	List available reserved capacity plans
get_object(identifier[, mask])	Get a Reserved Capacity Group
list()	List Reserved Capacities
resolve_ids(identifier)	Takes a string and tries to resolve to a list of matching ids.

Attributes

resolvers

create(name, backend_router_id, flavor, instances, test=False)

Orders a Virtual_ReservedCapacityGroup

Parameters:

• name (string) – Name for the new reserved capacity

• backend_router_id (int) – This selects the pod. See create_options for a list

• flavor (string) – Capacity KeyName, see create_options for a list

• instances (int) – Number of guest this capacity can support

• test (bool) – If True, don’t actually order, just test.

create_guest(capacity_id, test, guest_object)

Turns an empty Reserve Capacity into a real Virtual Guest

Parameters:

• capacity_id (int) – ID of the RESERVED_CAPACITY_GROUP to create this guest into

• test (bool) – True will use verifyOrder, False will use placeOrder

• guest_object (dictionary) – Below is the minimum info you need to send in guest_object = { ‘domain’: ‘test.com’, ‘hostname’: ‘A1538172419’, ‘os_code’: ‘UBUNTU_LATEST_64’, ‘primary_disk’: ‘25’, }

get_available_routers(dc=None)

Pulls down all backendRouterIds that are available

Parameters:

dc (string) – A specific location to get routers for, like ‘dal13’.

Returns list:

A list of locations where RESERVED_CAPACITY can be ordered.

get_create_options()

List available reserved capacity plans

get_object(identifier, mask=None)

Get a Reserved Capacity Group

Parameters:

• identifier (int) – Id of the SoftLayer_Virtual_ReservedCapacityGroup

• mask (string) – override default object Mask

list()

List Reserved Capacities

resolve_ids(identifier)

Takes a string and tries to resolve to a list of matching ids.

What exactly ‘identifier’ can be depends on the resolvers

Parameters:

identifier (string) – identifying string

Returns list: