I just confirmed in my environment that the following works -
>curl -u admin:admin -F "file=@c:\weather_1.mar" http://devtestservername.ca.com:1505/api/Dcm/VSEs/VSE/actions/deployMar
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><VirtualService xmlns="http://www.ca.com/lisa/invoke/v2.0" name="weather_1
" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.ca.com/lisa/invoke/v2.0 VirtualService.xsd
" href="http://devtestservername.ca.com:1505/api/Dcm/VSEs/VSE/weather_1" type="application/vnd.ca.lisaInvoke.virtualService+xml"><M
odelName>weather_1</ModelName><EndTime>1969-12-31 19:00:00</EndTime><Capacity>1</Capacity><UpTime>0</UpTime><TransactionsPerSecon
d>0</TransactionsPerSecond><TransactionCount>0</TransactionCount><PeakTransactionsPerSecond>0</PeakTransactionsPerSecond><ThinkSc
ale>100</ThinkScale><ErrorCount>0</ErrorCount><AutoRestartEnabled>true</AutoRestartEnabled><Status>2</Status><StartTime>2016-05-0
5 12:38:32</StartTime><ExecutionMode>Most Efficient</ExecutionMode><ConfigurationName>C:\PROGRA~1\CA\DevTest\lisatmp_9.1.0\lads\C
DE3BD7212DF11E6A15C00505686064C\examples\Configs\project.config</ConfigurationName><GroupTag></GroupTag><ResourceName>8009 : http
: : /WeatherWS/Weather.asmx</ResourceName><Link href="http://devtestservername.ca.com:1505/api/Dcm/VSEs/VSE/weather_1/actions" re
l="down"/><Link href="http://devtestservername.ca.com:1505/api/Dcm/VSEs/VSE/weather_1/actions/start" rel="start"/><Link href="http:
//devtestservername.ca.com:1505/api/Dcm/VSEs/VSE/weather_1/actions/stop" rel="stop"/><Link href="devtestservername.ca.com:1505
/api/Dcm/VSEs/VSE/weather_1/actions/resetCounts" rel="resetCounts"/><Link href="devtestservername.ca.com:1505/api/Dcm/VSEs/V
SE/weather_1/sessions" rel="sessions"/><Link href="http://devtestservername.ca.com:1505/api/Dcm/VSEs/VSE/weather_1/events" rel="eve
nts"/></VirtualService>
Results in the Mar being deployed and VS running in the VSE.