SoftLayer API Hardware : Network (VLAN) Details during Provision of BareMetal Server

Question

Provision of BareMetal Servers:

Using the below mentioned blog, I am able to provision hourly bare metal server.

http://sldn.softlayer.com/blog/bpotter/ordering-bare-metal-servers-using-softlayer-api

But I am unable to set VLAN details in the request object. If I pass VLAN details in the payload I am getting error message as:

"error":"VLANs may not be specified for Bare Metal Server configurations.","code":"SoftLayer_Exception_Public"}.

Also I want to know whether I can set private only network flag as true?

Answer 1

It would be great to see your payload, but the configuration of VLANs is here http://sldn.softlayer.com/reference/services/SoftLayer_Hardware/createObject,

your payload should be something loke this:

hw = {
    'datacenter': {'name': 'tor01'},
    'hostname': 'simplebmi',
    'domain': 'test.com',
    'hourlyBillingFlag': True,
    'fixedConfigurationPreset': {'keyName': 'S1270_8GB_2X1TBSATA_NORAID'},
    'networkComponents': [{
        'maxSpeed': 1000,
    }],
    'operatingSystemReferenceCode': 'UBUNTU_14_64',
     "primaryNetworkComponent": { 
        "networkVlan": { 
            "id": 52123
        } 
    }, 
   "primaryBackendNetworkComponent": { 
        "networkVlan": { 
            "id": 2 
        } 
    } 
}

and yes you can set the private only network just add this to the payload:

"privateNetworkOnlyFlag": true

Regards