Virtual Disk Manager Zero Fill Virtual Disk Task
Overwrite all blocks of the virtual disk with zeros.
All data will be lost.
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 whose blocks should be overwritten with zeroes.
This method returns a Task object with which to monitor the operation.
{
"_typeName": "string",
"type": "string",
"value": "string"
}
FileFault: if an error occurs zero filling 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"
}
]
}