So I found the answer in a different post:
VRA 7.1 What is the JSON content to request multiple instances in a deployment
Now, I am going to be greedy. Is there any way to set the # of instances of a machine to ZERO? I have blueprints with multiple machine types. In order to save resource, I would like the ability programmatically to set ZERO for certain machines if requested by my user. So far I cannot seem to set _cluster = 0.
I get this error:
<The value of the '_cluster' field cannot be less than 1>
If anyone has a suggestion how to do this, it would be appreciated.