Find Datastore Deprecated

Returns datastore information for the specified datastores. The key in the result map is the datastore identifier and the value in the map is the datastore information. if you do not have all of the privileges described as follows: - Operation execution requires System.Read. - The resource Datastore referenced by the parameter datastores requires System.Read.

Request

URL

POST

https://{api_host}/rest/com/vmware/vcenter/inventory/datastore?~action=find

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Header Parameters

string

vmware-api-session-id Required

Required session ID, acquired from Create Session API under CIS product

vmware-api-session-id example

"b00db39f948d13ea1e59b4d6fce56389"

Request Body

InventoryDatastoreFindRequestBody of mimetype application/json Required

This is a request body class for an operation.

(The request body parameter is missing description)

{
	"datastores": [
		"string"
	]
}

array of string

datastores Required

Identifiers of the datastores for which information will be returned. The parameter must contain identifiers for the resource type: Datastore.

Authentication

This operation uses the following authentication methods.

api_key

Response

Response Body

200 OK returns InventoryDatastoreFindResponseBody of type application/json

Datastore information for the specified datastores. The key in the result map is the datastore identifier and the value in the map is the datastore information. The key in the result map will be an identifier for the resource type: Datastore.

{
	"value": {}
}

array of object

value Optional

Errors

ErrorRest

404

com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.not_found : if no datastore can be found for one or more of the datastore identifiers in datastores

ErrorRest

default

‘Default’ means this response is used for all HTTP codes that are not covered individually for this operation.

Code Samples

cURL Command

curl -X POST -H "vmware-api-session-id: b00db39f948d13ea1e59b4d6fce56389" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"datastores":["string"]}' https://{api_host}/rest/com/vmware/vcenter/inventory/datastore?~action=find

Vendor Extensions

This operation contains the following vendor extensions defined in the spec:

x-vmw-doc-new-method: get
x-vmw-doc-new-path: /api/vcenter/inventory/datastore
x-vmw-doc-operation: find