Virtual Machine Compatibility Checker Check Compatibility Task

Tests whether or not a virtual machine could be placed on the given host in the given resource pool.

Required privileges: System.View

Request

URI

POST

https://{vcenter-host}/sdk/vim25/{release}/VirtualMachineCompatibilityChecker/{moId}/CheckCompatibility_Task

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 VirtualMachineCompatibilityChecker/{moId}.

string

release

Required

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

Request Body

CheckCompatibilityRequestType of type(s) application/json

Required

{
    "vm": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "type": "string",
        "value": "string"
    },
    "host": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "type": "string",
        "value": "string"
    },
    "pool": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "type": "string",
        "value": "string"
    },
    "testType": [
        "string"
    ]
}

MoRefVirtualMachine

Required

Reference to an instance of the VirtualMachine managed object.

MoRefHostSystem

host

Optional

Reference to an instance of the HostSystem managed object.

MoRefResourcePool

pool

Optional

Reference to an instance of the ResourcePool managed object.

array of string

testType

Optional

The set of tests to run. If this argument is not set, all tests will be run. See CheckTestTypeEnum for possible values.

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

InvalidState: if the operation cannot be performed because of the host or virtual machine's current state. For example, if the host is in maintenance mode or if the virtual machine's configuration information is not available.

InvalidArgument: if the desired host and pool are not associated with the same compute resource, the host parameter is left unset when the specified pool is associated with a non-DRS cluster, or if the specified vm does not exist.

DatacenterMismatch: if the provided host and pool do not belong to the same datacenter.

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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