Host Virtual Nic Manager Select Vnic For Nic Type

Select the NicType of the VirtualNic.

Selecting a device automatically deselects the previous selection if multiSelectAllowed is false for the specified nicType. Else, the device is added to the list of selected nics.

Required privileges: Host.Config.Network

Request

URI

POST

https://{vcenter-host}/sdk/vim25/{release}/HostVirtualNicManager/{moId}/SelectVnicForNicType

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 HostVirtualNicManager/{moId}.

string

release

Required

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

Request Body

SelectVnicForNicTypeRequestType of type(s) application/json

Required

{
    "nicType": "string",
    "device": "string"
}

string

nicType

Required

The type of VirtualNic that would be selected

string

device

Required

The device that uniquely identifies the VirtualNic.

Authentication

This operation uses the following authentication methods.

Session

Responses

204

No Content

Operation doesn't return any data structure

500

InvalidArgument: if nicType is invalid, or device represents a nonexistent or invalid VirtualNic

HostConfigFault: for any other failure.

Returns MethodFault of type(s) application/json

This response body class contains all of the following: Any

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

MethodFault

faultCause

Optional

The base data object type for all the object model faults that an application might handle.

array of LocalizableMessage

faultMessage

Optional

Message which has details about the error Message can also contain a key to message catalog which can be used to generate better localized messages.

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