You can change the VDC compute policy of a virtual machine by sending a PUT request to the reconfigureVm link of the virtual machine.

For information about VDC compute policies, see Managing VM-Host Affinity Rules and VDC Compute Policies.

Prerequisites
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You must be a system administrator, organization administrator, vApp Author, or vApp User.

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The system administrator published the new VDC compute policy to the organization VDC of the target virtual machine.

Procedure
1

Retrieve the Vm element of the target virtual machine.

For example, use a request similar to: 

GET https://vcloud.example.com/api/vApp/vm-75

The VdcComputePolicy element references the current VDC compute policy of the virtual machine.

2

To update the VDC compute policy, modify the retrieved Vm element by editing the VdcComputePolicy reference.

For example, modify the Vm element similar to: 

<Vm
   xmlns="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5"
   ...
      <VCloudExtension required="false">
   ...
   <VdcComputePolicy
      href="https://vcloud.example.com/cloudapi/1.0.0/vdcComputePolicies/51"
      id="51"
      name="oracle_license"
      type="application/json"/>
   ...
</Vm>
3

Use the modified Vm element as the body of a reconfigureVm request.

For example, use a request similar to: 

PUT https://vcloud.example.com/api/vApp/vm-75/action/reconfigureVm
type="application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.vm+xml
...
<Vm
   ...
   <VdcComputePolicy
      .../>
   ...
</Vm>

The placement engine moves the virtual machine to the corresponding VM group of the new VDC compute policy.