Virtual Disk Manager Release Managed Snapshot

Virtual Disk Manager Release Managed Snapshot

Release a snapshot previously imported with importUnmanagedSnapshot

Required privileges: System.View

Request
URI
POST
https://{vcenter-host}/sdk/vim25/{release}/VirtualDiskManager/{moId}/ReleaseManagedSnapshot
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
ReleaseManagedSnapshotRequestType of type(s) application/json
Required
{
    "vdisk": "string",
    "datacenter": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "type": "string",
        "value": "string"
    }
}
string
vdisk
Required

- The name of the disk to release, either a datastore path or a URL referring to the virtual disk.

datacenter
Optional

Reference to an instance of the Datacenter managed object.

Authentication
This operation uses the following authentication methods.
Responses
204

No Content

Operation doesn't return any data structure

500

FileNotFound: if vdisk is not found

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"
        }
    ]
}