Vslm V Storage Object Manager Vslm Inflate Disk Task

Inflate a sparse or thin-provisioned virtual disk up to the full size.

Additional space allocated to the disk as a result of this operation will be filled with zeros.

Currently inflateDisk API only supports the following combinations: Valid provisioning type: THIN; Valid Datastore: VMFS, NFS. Inflating a disk is not applicable for VVol/VSAN datastore.

Requires Datastore.FileManagement privilege on the datastore where the virtual storage object is located.

Request

URI

POST

https://{vcenter-host}/sdk/vim25/{release}/vslm/VslmVStorageObjectManager/{moId}/VslmInflateDisk_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 9.1.0.0 APIs.

Request Body

VslmInflateDiskRequestType of type(s) application/json

Required

Show optional properties

{
    "id": {}
}

{
    "id": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "id": "string"
    }
}

Required

The ID of the virtual disk to be inflated.

Authentication

This operation uses the following authentication methods.

Session

Responses

200

This method returns a Task object with which to monitor the operation.

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 inflating the virtual disk.

NotFound: If the specified virtual storage object cannot be found.

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

InvalidState: If the operation cannot be performed on the disk. The disk may be consumed and cannot be extended.

TaskInProgress: If the virtual storage object is busy.

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": {
        "_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>' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"id":"{}"}' https://{api_host}/sdk/vim25/{release}/vslm/VslmVStorageObjectManager/{moId}/VslmInflateDisk_Task

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Request

Path Parameters

Request Body

Authentication

Response

200 Response Body

Errors

Storage Lifecycle Management Operations