Virtual Machine Query Changed Disk Areas

Virtual Machine Query Changed Disk Areas

Get a list of areas of a virtual disk belonging to this VM that have been modified since a well-defined point in the past.

The beginning of the change interval is identified by "changeId", while the end of the change interval is implied by the snapshot ID passed in.

Note that the result of this function may contain "false positives" (i.e: flag areas of the disk as modified that are not). However, it is guaranteed that no changes will be missed.

Required privileges: VirtualMachine.Provisioning.DiskRandomRead

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

string
release
Required

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


Request Body
QueryChangedDiskAreasRequestType of type(s) application/json
Required
{
    "snapshot": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "type": "string",
        "value": "string"
    },
    "deviceKey": 0,
    "startOffset": 0,
    "changeId": "string"
}
snapshot
Optional

Reference to an instance of the VirtualMachineSnapshot managed object.

integer As int32 As int32
deviceKey
Required

Identifies the virtual disk for which to compute changes.

integer As int64 As int64
startOffset
Required

Start Offset in bytes at which to start computing changes. Typically, callers will make multiple calls to this function, starting with startOffset 0 and then examine the "length" property in the returned DiskChangeInfo structure, repeatedly calling queryChangedDiskAreas until a map forthe entire virtual disk has been obtained.

string
changeId
Required

Identifyer referring to a point in the past that should be used as the point in time at which to begin including changes to the disk in the result. A typical use case would be a backup application obtaining a changeId from a virtual disk's backing info when performing a backup. When a subsequent incremental backup is to be performed, this change Id can be used to obtain a list of changed areas on disk.

Authentication
This operation uses the following authentication methods.
Responses
200

Returns a data structure specifying extents of the virtual disk that have changed since the thime the changeId string was obtained.

Returns DiskChangeInfo of type(s) application/json
This response body class contains all of the following: DataObject
{
    "_typeName": "string",
    "startOffset": 0,
    "length": 0,
    "changedArea": [
        {
            "_typeName": "string",
            "start": 0,
            "length": 0
        }
    ]
}
integer As int64 As int64
startOffset
Required

Start offset (in bytes) of disk area described by this data structure.

integer As int64 As int64
length
Required

Length (in bytes) of disk area described by this data structure.

changedArea
Optional

Modified disk areas.

Might be empty if no parts of the disk between startOffset and startOffset + length were modified.


500

NotFound: if the snapshot specified does not exist.

InvalidArgument: if deviceKey does not specify a virtual disk, startOffset is beyond the end of the virtual disk or changeId is invalid or change tracking is not supported for this particular disk.

FileFault: if the virtual disk files cannot be accessed/queried.

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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