Failover Cluster Configurator Create Witness Node Task

Creates a Witness node in a degraded VCHA Cluster with node location information and pre-existing VCHA Cluster configuration from the Active node.

Required privileges: Global.VCServer

Request

URI

POST

https://{api_host}/sdk/vim25/{release}/FailoverClusterConfigurator/{moId}/createWitnessNode_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 FailoverClusterConfigurator/{moId}.

string

release

Required

The vSphere release schema. The current specification covers vSphere 9.0.0.0 APIs.

Request Body

createWitnessNodeRequestType of type(s) application/json

Required

"createWitnessNodeRequestType Object"

witnessDeploymentSpec

Required

contains deployment specification for the witness node

sourceVcSpec

Required

contains specification for the source vCenter server that is used to create Witness node

Authentication

This operation uses the following authentication methods.

Session

Responses

200

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

Returns MoRefTask of type(s) application/json

"MoRefTask Object"

Code Samples

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                    curl -X POST -H 'Authorization: <value>' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '[{}]' https://{api_host}/sdk/vim25/{release}/FailoverClusterConfigurator/{moId}/createWitnessNode_Task

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Description

Request

Path Parameters

Request Body

Authentication

Response

200 Response Body

Virtual Infrastructure Operations

POST

Failover Cluster Configurator Configure Vcha Task

POST