Virtual Disk Manager Shrink Virtual Disk Task
Deprecated as of vSphere 6.5, use ShrinkDisk_Task instead.
Shrink a sparse virtual disk.
The datacenter parameter may be omitted if a URL is used to name the disk.
The optional parameter copy specifies whether to shrink the
disk in copy-shrink mode or in-place mode. In copy-shrink mode,
additional space is required, but will result in a shrunk disk that is
also defragmented. In-place shrink does not require additional space,
but will increase fragmentation. The default behavior is to perform
copy-shrink if the parameter is not specified.
Requires Datastore.FileManagement privilege on the datastore where the virtual disk resides.
Required privileges: System.View
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}.
The vSphere release schema. The current specification covers vSphere 9.0.0.0 APIs.
"ShrinkVirtualDiskRequestType Object"The name of the disk, either a datastore path or a URL referring to the virtual disk that should be shrink.
If name 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,
name must be a URL.
If true or omitted, performs shrink in copy-shrink mode, otherwise shrink in in-place mode.
This method returns a Task object with which to monitor the operation.
"MoRefTask Object"FileFault: if an error occurs shrinking the virtual disk.
InvalidDatastore: if the operation cannot be performed on the datastore.
"VimFault Object" curl -X POST -H 'Authorization: <value>' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '[{}]' https://{api_host}/sdk/vim25/{release}/VirtualDiskManager/{moId}/ShrinkVirtualDisk_Task