vCloud API Operations

The following sections describe commonly used vCloud API operations using vCloud SDK for .NET. The API descriptions in this chapter do not provide complete backup/restore implementation details, but focus instead on identifying a set of vCloud API methods that facilitate certain operations that use vCloud Director.
You should be familiar with vCloud Director and vCloud API concepts. Every resource in vCloud Director can be accessed using either its unique ID or HREF (the reference URL) in the vCloud API. The .NET SDK provides wrapper utility classes for commonly-used resources to make the programming easier.
The operations described in the following sections are: