Virtual Disk Manager Import Unmanaged Snapshot

Import an unmanaged-snapshot from Virtual-Volume(VVol) enabled Storage Array.

Storage Array may support users to take snapshots independent of VMware stack. Such copies or snapshots are known as 'Unmanaged-Snapshots'. We are providing an ability to end-users to import such unmanaged-snapshots as Virtual Disks.

End-user needs to know the VVol-Identifier to import unmanaged snapshot as VirtualDisk.

Once VirtualDisk is created, user can use 'Datastore Browser' to use with rest of Virtual Machine provisioning APIs.

Required privileges: System.View

Request

URI

POST

https://{vcenter-host}/sdk/vim25/{release}/VirtualDiskManager/{moId}/ImportUnmanagedSnapshot

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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 9.1.0.0 APIs.

Request Body

ImportUnmanagedSnapshotRequestType of type(s) application/json

Required

Show optional properties

{
    "vdisk": "string",
    "vvolId": "string"
}

{
    "vdisk": "string",
    "datacenter": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "type": "string",
        "value": "string"
    },
    "vvolId": "string"
}

string

vdisk

Required

- The name of the disk to import, either a datastore path or a URL referring to the virtual disk from which to get geometry information.

datacenter

Optional

If vdisk is a datastore path, the datacenter for that datastore path. Not needed when invoked directly on ESX. If not specified on a call to VirtualCenter, vdisk must be a URL.

string

vvolId

Required

- unmanaged snapshot identifier

Authentication

This operation uses the following authentication methods.

Session

Responses

204

No Content

Operation doesn't return any data structure

500

NotFound: if VVol is not found

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": {
        "_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 '{"vdisk":"string","vvolId":"string"}' https://{api_host}/sdk/vim25/{release}/VirtualDiskManager/{moId}/ImportUnmanagedSnapshot

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Request

Path Parameters

Request Body

Authentication

Response

204 Response Body

Errors

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