Virtual Disk Manager Query Virtual Disk Fragmentation
Return the percentage of fragmentation of the sparse virtual disk.
This is the fragmentation of virtual disk file(s) in the host operating system, not the fragmentation of the guest operating systemS 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
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}
.
The vSphere release schema. The current specification covers vSphere 8.0.2.0 APIs.
{
"name": "string",
"datacenter": {
"_typeName": "string",
"type": "string",
"value": "string"
}
}
The name of the disk, either a datastore path or a URL referring to the virtual disk for which to return the percentage of fragmentation.
the percentage of fragmentation (as an integer between 0 and 100) of the sparse virtual disk.
FileFault: if an error occurs reading the virtual disk.
InvalidDatastore: if the operation cannot be performed on the datastore.
{
"_typeName": "string",
"faultCause": "MethodFault Object",
"faultMessage": [
{
"_typeName": "string",
"key": "string",
"arg": [
{
"_typeName": "string",
"key": "string",
"value": {
"_typeName": "string"
}
}
],
"message": "string"
}
]
}