Failover Cluster Configurator Create Witness Node Task
Creates a Witness node in a degraded VCHA Cluster with node location information and pre-existing VCHA Cluster configuration from the Active node.
Required privileges: Global.VCServer
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 FailoverClusterConfigurator/{moId}
.
The vSphere release schema. The current specification covers vSphere 8.0.2.0 APIs.
{
"witnessDeploymentSpec": {
"_typeName": "string",
"esxHost": {
"_typeName": "string",
"type": "string",
"value": "string"
},
"datastore": {
"_typeName": "string",
"type": "string",
"value": "string"
},
"publicNetworkPortGroup": {
"_typeName": "string",
"type": "string",
"value": "string"
},
"clusterNetworkPortGroup": {
"_typeName": "string",
"type": "string",
"value": "string"
},
"folder": {
"_typeName": "string",
"type": "string",
"value": "string"
},
"resourcePool": {
"_typeName": "string",
"type": "string",
"value": "string"
},
"managementVc": {
"_typeName": "string",
"instanceUuid": "string",
"url": "string",
"credential": {
"_typeName": "string"
},
"sslThumbprint": "string"
},
"nodeName": "string",
"ipSettings": {
"_typeName": "string",
"ip": {
"_typeName": "string"
},
"subnetMask": "string",
"gateway": [
"string"
],
"ipV6Spec": {
"_typeName": "string",
"ip": [
{
"_typeName": "string"
}
],
"gateway": [
"string"
]
},
"dnsServerList": [
"string"
],
"dnsDomain": "string",
"primaryWINS": "string",
"secondaryWINS": "string",
"netBIOS": "string"
}
},
"sourceVcSpec": {
"_typeName": "string",
"managementVc": {
"_typeName": "string",
"instanceUuid": "string",
"url": "string",
"credential": {
"_typeName": "string"
},
"sslThumbprint": "string"
},
"activeVc": {
"_typeName": "string",
"type": "string",
"value": "string"
}
}
}
The NodeDeploymentSpec class defines location specification of the nodes the VCHA Cluster along with Management vCenter Server information that manages node VM.
The SourceNodeSpec class defines specification of the source node that is used to initiate the configuration or deployment for VCHA.
This method returns a Task object with which to monitor the progress of the operation.
{
"_typeName": "string",
"type": "string",
"value": "string"
}