Datastore Namespace Manager Increase Directory Size

Increase size of the given top-level directory to the given size on vSAN backed object storage.

The top-level directory must be a full path in the form

/vmfs/volumes/[datastore-uuid]/[directory-uuid]

as returned by CreateDirectory.

Requires Datastore.Config privilege on the datastore.

See also CreateDirectory.

Since: vSphere API Release 8.0.1.0

Request

URI

POST

https://{vcenter-host}/sdk/vim25/{release}/DatastoreNamespaceManager/{moId}/IncreaseDirectorySize

COPY

Path Parameters

string

moId

Required

The unique identifier for the managed object to which the method attaches; the serialized managed object reference for a request has the form moType/moId, in this case DatastoreNamespaceManager/{moId}.

string

release

Required

The vSphere release schema. The current specification covers vSphere 8.0.2.0 APIs.

Request Body

IncreaseDirectorySizeRequestType of type(s) application/json

Required

{
    "datacenter": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "type": "string",
        "value": "string"
    },
    "stableName": "string",
    "size": 0
}

MoRefDatacenter

datacenter

Optional

Reference to an instance of the Datacenter managed object.

string

stableName

Required

stable vmfs path of the top-level directory

integer As int64 As int64

size

Required

the desired final size in MB of the directory, not a diff from the current size; should be more than current size

Authentication

This operation uses the following authentication methods.

Session

Responses

204

No Content

Operation doesn't return any data structure

500

FileFault: if a generic system error happened

FileNotFound: if the given directory can not be found

InvalidDatastore: if the given datastore is not supported by the DatastoreNamespaceManager

NotSupported: if resize is not supported on the directory

InvalidArgument: if passed size is not valid

Returns MethodFault of type(s) application/json

This response body class contains all of the following: Any

{
    "_typeName": "string",
    "faultCause": "MethodFault Object",
    "faultMessage": [
        {
            "_typeName": "string",
            "key": "string",
            "arg": [
                {
                    "_typeName": "string",
                    "key": "string",
                    "value": {
                        "_typeName": "string"
                    }
                }
            ],
            "message": "string"
        }
    ]
}

MethodFault

faultCause

Optional

The base data object type for all the object model faults that an application might handle.

array of LocalizableMessage

faultMessage

Optional

Message which has details about the error Message can also contain a key to message catalog which can be used to generate better localized messages.

Availability

Added in vSphere API Release 8.0.1.0

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