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Sajal Debnath
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Sajal Debnath is a highly certified Cloud computing technocrat with more than 12 years of experience in virtualized data center design, Cloud computing, and BC/DR solutions. He is an EMCISA, VCAP-DCD/DCA, VCAP-CID/CIA, RHCE 4/5/6, RHCVA, Openstack, and ITIL certified person. He is presently associated with VMware Software India Pvt. Ltd. as a senior system engineer. Previously, he worked with France Telecom, Hewlett Packard, and many more in multiple roles. He is involved in prestigious Indian government projects, such as National Cloud, Digital Locker, and so on.
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Managing machines


Now, we will look at ways to manage the machines in a tenant. For this, we will start by checking a list of all available catalog items.

Listing shared and private catalog items

To get a list of catalog items, first build the header:

$headers = New-Object "System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary[[String],[String]]"
$headers.Add('Content-Type', 'application/json')
$headers.Add('Authorization', "Bearer $token")

Next, simply query the resources:

PS C:\> (Invoke-RestMethod -Method Get -Uri 
"https://vra.lab.com/catalog-
service/api/consumer/entitledCatalogItems" -Headers 
$headers).Content.catalogItem[0] | ConvertTo-Json

We get a list of items. For readability and easy understanding, we will select only one output. Since the output is a PowerShell object (in this case, it is an array of objects), we are just selecting the first element and then converting it to JSON format:

[
    {
        "id":  "bda84bcb-d3f6-4332-8781-89d146ef5e28",
        "version":  2,
        "name": ...
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Sajal Debnath is a highly certified Cloud computing technocrat with more than 12 years of experience in virtualized data center design, Cloud computing, and BC/DR solutions. He is an EMCISA, VCAP-DCD/DCA, VCAP-CID/CIA, RHCE 4/5/6, RHCVA, Openstack, and ITIL certified person. He is presently associated with VMware Software India Pvt. Ltd. as a senior system engineer. Previously, he worked with France Telecom, Hewlett Packard, and many more in multiple roles. He is involved in prestigious Indian government projects, such as National Cloud, Digital Locker, and so on.
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