Search Index Find By Datastore Path
Finds a virtual machine by its location on a datastore.
Required privileges: System.View
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 SearchIndex/{moId}
.
The vSphere release schema. The current specification covers vSphere 8.0.2.0 APIs.
{
"datacenter": {
"_typeName": "string",
"type": "string",
"value": "string"
},
"path": "string"
}
A datastore path to the .vmx file for the virtual machine.
The virtual machine that is found. If no virtual machine is found, null is returned. Only a single entity is returned, even if there are multiple matches.
{
"_typeName": "string",
"type": "string",
"value": "string"
}
InvalidDatastore: if a datastore has not been specified in the path or if the specified datastore does not exist on the specified datacenter.
{
"_typeName": "string",
"faultCause": "MethodFault Object",
"faultMessage": [
{
"_typeName": "string",
"key": "string",
"arg": [
{
"_typeName": "string",
"key": "string",
"value": {
"_typeName": "string"
}
}
],
"message": "string"
}
],
"datastore": {
"_typeName": "string",
"type": "string",
"value": "string"
},
"name": "string"
}
The name of the datastore that is invalid.