Customization Spec Manager Check Customization Resources

Validate that required resources are available on the server to customize a particular guest operating system.

Deprecated as of vSphere 9.0, and there is no replacement for it.

Validate that required resources are available on the server to customize a particular guest operating system.

These would include sysprep for Windows and the debugfs and changefs volume editors for Linux guests.

Required privileges: System.View

Request

URI

POST

https://{vcenter-host}/sdk/vim25/{release}/CustomizationSpecManager/{moId}/CheckCustomizationResources

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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 CustomizationSpecManager/{moId}.

string

release

Required

The vSphere release schema. The current specification covers vSphere 9.1.0.0 APIs.

Request Body

CheckCustomizationResourcesRequestType of type(s) application/json

Required

{
    "guestOs": "string"
}

string

guestOs

Required

Short name from the guest OS descriptor list describing the OS we intend to customize.

Authentication

This operation uses the following authentication methods.

Session

Responses

204

No Content

Operation doesn't return any data structure

500

MissingLinuxCustResources:

MissingWindowsCustResources:

UncustomizableGuest:

Returns CustomizationFault of type(s) application/json

This response body class contains all of the following: VimFault

{
    "_typeName": "string",
    "faultCause": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "faultCause": "MethodFault Object",
        "faultMessage": [
            {
                "_typeName": "string",
                "key": "string",
                "arg": [
                    {
                        "_typeName": "string",
                        "key": "string",
                        "value": {
                            "_typeName": "string"
                        }
                    }
                ],
                "message": "string"
            }
        ]
    },
    "faultMessage": [
        {
            "_typeName": "string",
            "key": "string",
            "arg": [
                {
                    "_typeName": "string",
                    "key": "string",
                    "value": {
                        "_typeName": "string"
                    }
                }
            ],
            "message": "string"
        }
    ]
}

Code Samples

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                    curl -X POST -H 'Authorization: <value>' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"guestOs":"string"}' https://{api_host}/sdk/vim25/{release}/CustomizationSpecManager/{moId}/CheckCustomizationResources

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Description

Request

Path Parameters

Request Body

Authentication

Response

204 Response Body

Errors

Virtual Infrastructure Operations

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