Add SAN or Local disk to already provisioned Server in Softlayer

Question

I am new to the softlayer rest APIs. We have a requirement where user will be allowed to add a additional SAN or Local Disk to the existing provisioned server in softlayer. For that I was referring to the REST API guide Our project is build on Ruby on Rails and we are using softlayer_api gem and so I was looking at the api ruby doc. But none of these links helped me. Are there any ruby examples for adding a disk ?

Answer 1

Please try the following example to upgrade a Virtual Guest in order to add a disk:

require 'rubygems'
require 'softlayer_api'

# Your SoftLayer API username.
SL_API_USERNAME = 'set me'

# Your SoftLayer API key.
SL_API_KEY = 'set me'


# Set the server id that you wish to upgrade.
server_id = 17850400

# Set the new item price id to upgrade the VSI
price_id = 51733  # 10 GB (SAN) "categoryCode": "guest_disk1", "name": "Second Disk"

# Order Template with all new item configurations
object_template = {'packageId'=> 0,
                   'prices'=> [
                       {
                           'id'=> price_id
                       }
                   ],
                   'virtualGuests'=> [
                       {
                           'id'=> server_id
                       }
                   ],
                   'properties'=> [
                       {
                           'name'=> 'NOTE_GENERAL',
                           'value'=> 'Adding a SAN disk'
                       },
                       {
                           'name'=> 'MAINTENANCE_WINDOW',
                           'value'=> 'now'
                       }
                   ],
                   'complexType'=> 'SoftLayer_Container_Product_Order_Virtual_Guest_Upgrade'
}

softlayer_client = SoftLayer::Client.new(:username => SL_API_USERNAME,
                                         :api_key => SL_API_KEY)
product_order_service = softlayer_client.service_named('SoftLayer_Product_Order')

begin
  result = product_order_service.verifyOrder(object_template)
  puts 'Result:  '
  puts result.inspect
rescue Exception => e
  puts 'Unable to add the new SAN Disk ...'
  $stdout.print(e.inspect)
end

Note: Once your script is ready, please change from verifyOrder to placeOrder.

To get valid prices for upgrade, please review:

SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest::getUpgradeItemPrices

References:

SoftLayer_Product_Order

SoftLayer_Container_Product_Order_Virtual_Guest_Upgrade

upgrade_examples