Virtual Disk Manager Set Virtual Disk Uuid

Virtual Disk Manager Set Virtual Disk Uuid

Deprecated as of vSphere 6.5, use HostRegisterDisk to register a disk as vStorageObject with new unique UUID.

Set the virtual disk SCSI inquiry page 0x83 data.

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}/SetVirtualDiskUuid
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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
SetVirtualDiskUuidRequestType of type(s) application/json
Required
{
    "name": "string",
    "datacenter": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "type": "string",
        "value": "string"
    },
    "uuid": "string"
}
string
name
Required

The name of the disk, either a datastore path or a URL referring to the virtual disk whose SCSI inquiry page 0x83 data should be set.

datacenter
Optional

Reference to an instance of the Datacenter managed object.

string
uuid
Required

The hex representation of the unique ID for this virtual disk.

Authentication
This operation uses the following authentication methods.
Responses
204

No Content

Operation doesn't return any data structure

500

FileFault: if an error occurs updating 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"
        }
    ]
}