Search Index Find By Datastore Path

Finds a virtual machine by its location on a datastore.

Required privileges: System.View

Request

URI

POST

https://{vcenter-host}/sdk/vim25/{release}/SearchIndex/{moId}/FindByDatastorePath

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 SearchIndex/{moId}.

string

release

Required

The vSphere release schema. The current specification covers vSphere 8.0.3.0 APIs.

Request Body

FindByDatastorePathRequestType of type(s) application/json

Required

Show optional properties

{
    "datacenter": {},
    "path": "string"
}

{
    "datacenter": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "type": "string",
        "value": "string"
    },
    "path": "string"
}

MoRefDatacenter

datacenter

Required

Reference to an instance of the Datacenter managed object.

string

path

Required

A datastore path to the .vmx file for the virtual machine.

Authentication

This operation uses the following authentication methods.

Session

Responses

200

The virtual machine that is found. If no virtual machine is found, null is returned. Only a single entity is returned, even if there are multiple matches.

Returns MoRefVirtualMachine of type(s) application/json

This response body class contains all of the following: MoRefManagedEntity

{
    "_typeName": "string",
    "type": "string",
    "value": "string"
}

500

InvalidDatastore: if a datastore has not been specified in the path or if the specified datastore does not exist on the specified datacenter.

Returns InvalidDatastore of type(s) application/json

This response body class contains all of the following: VimFault

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

MoRefDatastore

datastore

Optional

Reference to an instance of the Datastore managed object.

string

name

Optional

The name of the datastore that is invalid.

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