Virtual Machine Repair Vm Disk Chains Task

Repair the broken disk chains in the VM while the VM is powered off.

Requires Datastore.FileManagement privilege on the datastore where each virtual disk resides.

Since: vSphere API Release 9.1.0.0

Request

URI

POST

https://{vcenter-host}/sdk/vim25/{release}/VirtualMachine/{moId}/RepairVmDiskChains_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 VirtualMachine/{moId}.

string

release

Required

The vSphere release schema. The current specification covers vSphere 9.1.0.0 APIs.

Authentication

This operation uses the following authentication methods.

Session

Responses

200

Returns MoRefTask of type(s) application/json

This response body class contains all of the following: MoRefExtensibleManagedObject

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

500

InvalidPowerState: if the virtual machine is powered on or suspended.

VmConfigFault: if a virtual machine configuration issue prevents repairing. Typically, a more specific fault is thrown such as InvalidDiskFormat if a disk cannot be read.

InsufficientResourcesFault: if this operation would violate a resource usage policy. This is typically due to too many open files causing disk files cannot open.

FileFault: if there is a problem accessing the virtual machine's disk files for this operation. Typically a more specific fault for example NoDiskSpace or FileLocked is thrown.

TaskInProgress: if the virtual machine is busy.

NotSupported: if the ESX server doesn't support repair of the VM

SystemError: if failure due to any other reason.

Returns MethodFault of type(s) application/json

This response body class contains all of the following: Any

{
    "_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"
        }
    ]
}

faultCause

Optional

Fault which is the cause of this fault.

array of object

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.

Code Samples

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                    curl -X POST -H 'Authorization: <value>' https://{api_host}/sdk/vim25/{release}/VirtualMachine/{moId}/RepairVmDiskChains_Task

Availability

Added in vSphere API Release 9.1.0.0

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Description

Request

Path Parameters

Authentication

Response

200 Response Body

Errors

Virtual Infrastructure Operations