Vslm V Storage Object Manager Vslm Create Disk From Snapshot Task

Creates a new Disk from given snapshot of a VStorageObject.

Requires Datastore.FileManagement privilege.

VslmSyncFault will set in the task error if the createDiskFromSnapshot completed successfully but the datastore synchronization failed.

Required privileges: System.View

Request

URI

POST

https://{vcenter-host}/sdk/vim25/{release}/vslm/VslmVStorageObjectManager/{moId}/VslmCreateDiskFromSnapshot_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 VslmVStorageObjectManager/{moId}.

string

release

Required

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

Request Body

VslmCreateDiskFromSnapshotRequestType of type(s) application/json

Required

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{
    "id": {
        "id": "string"
    },
    "snapshotId": {
        "id": "string"
    },
    "name": "string"
}

{
    "id": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "id": "string"
    },
    "snapshotId": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "id": "string"
    },
    "name": "string",
    "profile": [
        {
            "_typeName": "string"
        }
    ],
    "crypto": {
        "_typeName": "string"
    },
    "path": "string"
}

Required

This data object type describes an identifier class which is globally unique to identify the associated object.

snapshotId

Required

This data object type describes an identifier class which is globally unique to identify the associated object.

string

name

Required

A user friendly name to be associated with the new disk.

array of VirtualMachineProfileSpec

profile

Optional

SPBM Profile requirement on the new virtual storage object. If not specified datastore default policy would be assigned.

CryptoSpec

crypto

Optional

This data object type encapsulates virtual machine or disk encryption settings.

string

path

Optional

Relative location in the specified datastore where disk needs to be created. If not specified disk gets created at the defualt VStorageObject location on the specified datastore.

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

FileFault: If an error occurs while snapshotting the virtual storage object.

InvalidDatastore: If the operation cannot be performed on the datastore.

InvalidState: If the operation cannot be performed on the disk.

NotFound: If specified virtual storage object cannot be found.

VslmFault: If a VSLM internal server error occurred.

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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