Virtual Disk Manager Defragment Virtual Disk Task

Virtual Disk Manager Defragment Virtual Disk Task

Deprecated as of vSphere 6.5, use DefragmentAllDisks instead.

Defragment a sparse virtual disk.

This is defragmentation of the virtual disk file(s) in the host operating system, not defragmentation of the guest operating system filesystem inside the virtual disk.

The datacenter parameter may be omitted if a URL is used to name the disk.

Requires Datastore.FileManagement privilege on the datastore where the virtual disk resides.

Required privileges: System.View

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

string
release
Required

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

Request Body
DefragmentVirtualDiskRequestType of type(s) application/json
Required 
{
    "name": "string",
    "datacenter": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "type": "string",
        "value": "string"
    }
}
string
name
Required

The name of the disk, either a datastore path or a URL referring to the virtual disk that should be defragmented.

MoRefDatacenter
datacenter
Optional

Reference to an instance of the Datacenter managed object.

Authentication
This operation uses the following authentication methods.
Responses
200

This method returns a Task object with which to monitor the operation.

Returns MoRefTask of type(s) application/json
This response body class contains all of the following: MoRefExtensibleManagedObject 
{
    "_typeName": "string",
    "type": "string",
    "value": "string"
}

500

FileFault: if an error occurs defragmenting the virtual disk.

InvalidDatastore: if the operation cannot be performed on the datastore.

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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