Host Diagnostic System Select Active Partition

Host Diagnostic System Select Active Partition

Changes the active diagnostic partition to a different partition.

Setting a NULL partition will result in unsetting the diagnostic partition.

Required privileges: Host.Config.Storage

Request
URI
POST
https://{vcenter-host}/sdk/vim25/{release}/HostDiagnosticSystem/{moId}/SelectActivePartition
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 HostDiagnosticSystem/{moId}.

string
release
Required

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

Request Body
SelectActivePartitionRequestType of type(s) application/json
Required 
{
    "partition": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "diskName": "string",
        "partition": 0
    }
}
HostScsiDiskPartition
partition
Optional

This data object type describes the specification of a Disk partition.

Authentication
This operation uses the following authentication methods.
Responses
204

No Content

Operation doesn't return any data structure

500

NotSupported: if the host is not an ESX Server.

NotFound: if the diagnostic partition does not exist.

InvalidArgument: if the partition is not a diagnostic partition.

HostConfigFault: on some internal failure while selecting the active partition.

Returns VimFault of type(s) application/json
This response body class contains all of the following: MethodFault 
{
    "_typeName": "string",
    "faultCause": "MethodFault Object",
    "faultMessage": [
        {
            "_typeName": "string",
            "key": "string",
            "arg": [
                {
                    "_typeName": "string",
                    "key": "string",
                    "value": {
                        "_typeName": "string"
                    }
                }
            ],
            "message": "string"
        }
    ]
}

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