Create Block Device

Following disk custom properties can be passed while creating a block device:

1. dataStore: Defines name of the datastore in which the disk has to be provisioned. 

2. storagePolicy: Defines name of the storage policy in which the disk has to be provisioned. If name of the datastore is specified in the custom properties then, datastore takes precedence.

3. provisioningType: Defines the type of provisioning. For eg. thick/thin.

Request

URI

POST

https://api.mgmt.cloud.vmware.com//iaas/api/block-devices

COPY

Query Parameters

string

apiVersion

Optional

The version of the API in yyyy-MM-dd format (UTC). For versioning information please refer to /iaas/api/about

Request Body

Disk Specification instance

BlockDeviceSpecification of type(s) application/json

Required

{
    "capacityInGB": 78,
    "sourceReference": "ami-0d4cfd66",
    "encrypted": true,
    "deploymentId": "123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426655440000",
    "name": "string",
    "description": "string",
    "diskContentBase64": "dGVzdA",
    "persistent": true,
    "projectId": "e058",
    "constraints": [
        {
            "expression": "ha:strong",
            "mandatory": false
        }
    ],
    "tags": [
        {
            "value": "string",
            "key": "string"
        }
    ]
}

integer As int32 As int32

capacityInGB

Required

Capacity of the block device in GB.

string

sourceReference

Optional

Reference to URI using which the block device has to be created.

object

customProperties

Optional

Additional custom properties that may be used to extend the block device.

boolean

encrypted

Optional

Indicates whether the block device should be encrypted or not.

string

deploymentId

Optional

The id of the deployment that is associated with this resource

string

name

Required

A human-friendly name used as an identifier in APIs that support this option.

string

description

Optional

A human-friendly description.

string

diskContentBase64

Optional

Content of a disk, base64 encoded.

boolean

persistent

Optional

Indicates whether the block device should be persistent or not.

string

projectId

Required

The id of the project the current user belongs to.

array of Constraint

constraints

Optional

Constraints that are used to drive placement policies for the block device that is produced from this specification. Constraint expressions are matched against tags on existing placement targets.

array of Tag

tags

Optional

A set of tag keys and optional values that should be set on any resource that is produced from this specification.

Responses

202

successful operation

Returns RequestTracker of type(s) application/json

{
    "name": "Power-off",
    "progress": 90,
    "resources": [
        "string"
    ],
    "id": "we655aew4e8e",
    "message": "In Progress",
    "status": "FINISHED",
    "selfLink": "/.../request-tracker/we655aew4e8e"
}

string

name

Optional

Name of the operation.

integer As int32 As int32

progress

Required

Progress of the request as percentage.

array of string

resources

Optional

Collection of resources.