Migrating a VSI from SAN to Local Storage and vice-versa Nov 4, 2016
Example on how to call verifyOrder / placeOrder via REST to migrate a Virtual_Guest from SAN to Local storage and vice-versa. Replace the verifyOrder call with placeOrder when you are actually ready to start the migration process.
Create a new Bandwidth Pool May 2, 2016
Creating a new Bandwidth pool. This allows you to optimize your bandwidth usage by _pooling_ all of the bandwidth together for servers in a the Pool.
Determining your next bill Dec 30, 2015
Example on how to use getNextInvoiceTotalAmount to retrieve the pre-tax total amount of an account's next invoice measured in US Dollars ($USD). The amount assumes no changes or charges occur between now and the time of billing.
Get Hardware hostnames Sep 30, 2015
Calls SoftLayer_Account::getObect() to retrieve some basic information about an account, and uses an objectMask to retrieve the hostname of all hardware on the account
Get hostnames Sep 30, 2015
Calls SoftLayer_Account::getObject with an objectMask to pull in all the hostnames for both hardware and virtual servers. Uses the . and ; format for object Masks.
GetHardware with network components Sep 30, 2015
Calls SoftLayer_Account::getHardware() with an objectMask to get some information about the networkComponents
Ordering with placeOrder Sep 30, 2015
Example on how to call verifyOrder / placeOrder via REST. Replace the veryifyOrder call with placeOrder when you are actually ready to order the server
Get virtual server details Feb 15, 2015
Example of how to retrieve the details of a virtual server through a GET API operation. The list of fields returned can be customized by adding or removing fields from the objectMask