Virtual Disk Manager Extend Virtual Disk Task

Virtual Disk Manager Extend Virtual Disk Task

Deprecated as of vSphere 6.5, use HostExtendDisk_Task instead.

Expand the capacity of a virtual disk to the new capacity.

If the eagerZero flag is not specified, - the extended disk region of a zerothick disk will be zeroedthick - the extended disk region of a eagerzerothick disk will be eagerzeroedthick - a thin-provisioned disk will always be extended as a thin-provisioned disk. If the eagerZero flag TRUE, the extended region of the disk will always be eagerly zeroed. If the eagerZero flag FALSE, the extended region of a zeroedthick or eagerzeroedthick the disk will not be eagerly zeroed. This condition has no effect on a thin source 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

Request
URI
POST
https://{vcenter-host}/sdk/vim25/{release}/VirtualDiskManager/{moId}/ExtendVirtualDisk_Task
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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 8.0.3.0 APIs.


Request Body
ExtendVirtualDiskRequestType of type(s) application/json
Required

Show optional properties

{
    "name": "string",
    "newCapacityKb": 0
}
{
    "name": "string",
    "datacenter": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "type": "string",
        "value": "string"
    },
    "newCapacityKb": 0,
    "eagerZero": false
}
string
name
Required

The name of the disk, either a datastore path or a URL referring to the virtual disk whose capacity should be expanded.

datacenter
Optional

Reference to an instance of the Datacenter managed object.

integer As int64 As int64
newCapacityKb
Required

The new capacty of the virtual disk in Kb.

boolean
eagerZero
Optional

If true, the extended part of the disk will be explicitly filled with zeroes.

Authentication
This operation uses the following authentication methods.
Responses
200

This method returns a Task object with which to monitor the operation.

Returns MoRefTask of type(s) application/json
This response body class contains all of the following: MoRefExtensibleManagedObject
{
    "_typeName": "string",
    "type": "string",
    "value": "string"
}

500

FileFault: if an error occurs extending 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"
        }
    ]
}