Managed Object - HostVsanInternalSystem(vim.host.VsanInternalSystem)

Property of: HostConfigManager
See also: HostVsanInternalSystemCmmdsQuery, HostVsanInternalSystemDeleteVsanObjectsResult, HostVsanInternalSystemVsanObjectOperationResult, HostVsanInternalSystemVsanPhysicalDiskDiagnosticsResult, VsanNewPolicyBatch, VsanPolicyChangeBatch, VsanPolicySatisfiability
Since: vSphere API 5.5

Managed Object Description

The VsanInternalSystem exposes low level access to CMMDS, as well as draft versions of VSAN object and disk management APIs that are subject to change in future releases. No compatibility is guaranteed on any of the APIs, including their prototype, behavior or result encoding.

Properties

Name	Type	Description
None

Methods

Methods defined in this Managed Object
AbdicateDomOwnership, CanProvisionObjects, DeleteVsanObjects, GetVsanObjExtAttrs, QueryCmmds, QueryObjectsOnPhysicalVsanDisk, QueryPhysicalVsanDisks, QuerySyncingVsanObjects, QueryVsanObjects, QueryVsanObjectUuidsByFilter, QueryVsanStatistics, ReconfigurationSatisfiable, ReconfigureDomObject, RunVsanPhysicalDiskDiagnostics, UpgradeVsanObjects

AbdicateDomOwnership(abdicateDomOwnership)

Abdicate ownership of DOM objects. The objects must be currently owned by this host. Which host has ownership of an object at a given point in time can be queried from QueryVsanObjects() or QueryCmmds() APIs. Abidcating ownership tears down DOM owner in-memory state. Hosts in the cluster will then compete to become the new owner of the object, similar to a host failure event. There is a short interuption of IO flow while the owner re-election is going on, but it is transparent to any consumers of the object. This API is meant as a troubleshooting and debugging tool. It is internal at this point and can be used to resolve issues where DOM owner gets "stuck".

Required Privileges: Host.Config.Storage
Since: vSphere API 6.0

Parameters

Name

Type

Description

_this

ManagedObjectReference

A reference to the HostVsanInternalSystem used to make the method call.

uuids P

xsd:string[]

List of VSAN/DOM object UUIDs.

Since vSphere API 5.5

P Required privilege: uuids

Return Value

Type	Description
xsd:string[]	List of UUIDs successfully abdicated.

Faults

Type	Description
RuntimeFault	Thrown if any type of runtime fault is thrown that is not covered by the other faults; for example, a communication error.

Events

Type
None

Show WSDL type definition

         <element xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25" name="AbdicateDomOwnership" type="vim25:AbdicateDomOwnershipRequestType"/>
         <element xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25" name="AbdicateDomOwnershipResponse">
                  <complexType>
                     <sequence>
                        <element name="returnval" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
                     </sequence>
                  </complexType>
               </element>

CanProvisionObjects(canProvisionObjects)

Determine if given objects can be provisioned. Determines if the objects of the given size can be provisioned with the given policies. The API is intended to answer the question: can these objects be provisioned with the given policy using the current cluster topology (#hosts and #disks) and does NOT take into account free space on the disk, size of disks, etc. If the objects cannot be provisioned, the API returns the reason for not being able to satisfy the policy. If the objects can be provisioned, the API returns the cost of provisioning objects with this policy. Please note: This API ignores forceProvisioning.

Required Privileges: System.Read
Since: vSphere API 6.0

Parameters

Name

Type

Description

_this

ManagedObjectReference

A reference to the HostVsanInternalSystem used to make the method call.

npbs P

VsanNewPolicyBatch[]

List of NewPolicyBatch structure with sizes and policies.

Since vSphere API 5.5

ignoreSatisfiability* P

xsd:boolean

Optionally populate PolicyCost even though object cannot be provisioned in the current cluster topology.

Since vSphere API 5.5

*Need not be set PRequired privilege - see tooltip for details

Return Value

Type	Description
VsanPolicySatisfiability[]	List of PolicySatisfiability objects, one for each specified size.

Faults

Type	Description
RuntimeFault	Thrown if any type of runtime fault is thrown that is not covered by the other faults; for example, a communication error.
VimFault

Events

Type
None

Show WSDL type definition

         <element xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25" name="CanProvisionObjects" type="vim25:CanProvisionObjectsRequestType"/>
         <element xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25" name="CanProvisionObjectsResponse">
                  <complexType>
                     <sequence>
                        <element name="returnval" type="vim25:VsanPolicySatisfiability" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
                     </sequence>
                  </complexType>
               </element>

DeleteVsanObjects(deleteVsanObjects)

Delete VSAN objects. This API is internal and intended for troubleshooting/debugging only. WARNING: This API can be slow because we do IOs to all the objects. This API can be used to delete VSAN objects. DOM won't allow access to objects which have lost quorum. Such objects can be deleted with the optional "force" flag. These objects may however re-appear with quorum if the absent components come back (network partition gets resolved, etc.)

Required Privileges: Host.Config.Storage
Since: vSphere API 6.0

Parameters

Name

Type

Description

_this

ManagedObjectReference

A reference to the HostVsanInternalSystem used to make the method call.

uuids P

xsd:string[]

List of object UUIDs to be deleted.

Since vSphere API 5.5

force* P

xsd:boolean

Optional force delete.

Since vSphere API 5.5

*Need not be set PRequired privilege - see tooltip for details

Return Value

Type	Description
HostVsanInternalSystemDeleteVsanObjectsResult[]	List of DeleteVsanObjectsResult.

Faults

Type	Description
RuntimeFault	Thrown if any type of runtime fault is thrown that is not covered by the other faults; for example, a communication error.
VimFault

Events

Type
None

Show WSDL type definition

         <element xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25" name="DeleteVsanObjects" type="vim25:DeleteVsanObjectsRequestType"/>
         <element xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25" name="DeleteVsanObjectsResponse">
                  <complexType>
                     <sequence>
                        <element name="returnval" type="vim25:HostVsanInternalSystemDeleteVsanObjectsResult" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
                     </sequence>
                  </complexType>
               </element>

GetVsanObjExtAttrs(getVsanObjExtAttrs)

Get VSAN object extended attributes. This API is internal and intended for troubleshooting/debugging situations in the field. WARNING: This API can be slow because we do IOs (reads) to all the objects. This API can be used to get extended attributes of any object in the VSAN cluster from any host provided the object is accessible from that host. In case of an error, we return a dict with key "Error" for that object.

Required Privileges: System.Read
Since: vSphere API 6.0

Parameters

Name

Type

Description

_this

ManagedObjectReference

A reference to the HostVsanInternalSystem used to make the method call.

uuids P

xsd:string[]

List of object UUIDs.

Since vSphere API 5.5

P Required privilege: uuids

Return Value

Type	Description
xsd:string	JSON string with the extended attributes.

Faults

Type	Description
RuntimeFault	Thrown if any type of runtime fault is thrown that is not covered by the other faults; for example, a communication error.
VimFault

Events

Type
None

Show WSDL type definition

         <element xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25" name="GetVsanObjExtAttrs" type="vim25:GetVsanObjExtAttrsRequestType"/>
         <element xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25" name="GetVsanObjExtAttrsResponse">
                  <complexType>
                     <sequence>
                        <element name="returnval" type="xsd:string"/>
                     </sequence>
                  </complexType>
               </element>

QueryCmmds(queryCmmds)

Query CMMDS directly. The list of given queries is executed and all results are returned in a flat list. No attempt is made to de-dupe results in the case of overlapping query results.

Required Privileges: System.Read

Parameters

Name

Type

Description

_this

ManagedObjectReference

A reference to the HostVsanInternalSystem used to make the method call.

queries P

HostVsanInternalSystemCmmdsQuery[]

List of CMMDS query specs.

Since vSphere API 5.5

P Required privilege: queries

Return Value

Type	Description
xsd:string	JSON string with the results

Faults

Type	Description
RuntimeFault	Thrown if any type of runtime fault is thrown that is not covered by the other faults; for example, a communication error.

Events

Type
None

Show WSDL type definition

         <element xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25" name="QueryCmmds" type="vim25:QueryCmmdsRequestType"/>
         <element xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25" name="QueryCmmdsResponse">
                  <complexType>
                     <sequence>
                        <element name="returnval" type="xsd:string"/>
                     </sequence>
                  </complexType>
               </element>

QueryObjectsOnPhysicalVsanDisk(queryObjectsOnPhysicalVsanDisk)

Query DOM objects on a given set of physical disks. Finds all DOM objects that have at least one component on the given physical disks. In order to make this API efficient, the output of this API contains the found DOM_OBJECT, and referenced LSOM_OBJECT and DISK entries.

Required Privileges: System.Read

Parameters

Name

Type

Description

_this

ManagedObjectReference

A reference to the HostVsanInternalSystem used to make the method call.

disks P

xsd:string[]

List of VSAN disk UUIDs.

Since vSphere API 5.5

P Required privilege: disks

Return Value

Type	Description
xsd:string	JSON string with the results

Faults

Type	Description
RuntimeFault	Thrown if any type of runtime fault is thrown that is not covered by the other faults; for example, a communication error.

Events

Type
None

Show WSDL type definition

         <element xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25" name="QueryObjectsOnPhysicalVsanDisk" type="vim25:QueryObjectsOnPhysicalVsanDiskRequestType"/>
         <element xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25" name="QueryObjectsOnPhysicalVsanDiskResponse">
                  <complexType>
                     <sequence>
                        <element name="returnval" type="xsd:string"/>
                     </sequence>
                  </complexType>
               </element>

QueryPhysicalVsanDisks(queryPhysicalVsanDisks)

Query statistics about physical VSAN disks. Using the props parameter the caller can control which properties are returned. Requesting only the required properties is encouraged to reduce server load, response time and client load.

Required Privileges: System.Read

Parameters

Name

Type

Description

_this

ManagedObjectReference

A reference to the HostVsanInternalSystem used to make the method call.

props* P

xsd:string[]

List of properties to gather. Not specifying a list will fetch all properties.

Since vSphere API 5.5

*Need not be set P Required privilege: props

Return Value

Type	Description
xsd:string	JSON string with the results

Faults

Type	Description
RuntimeFault	Thrown if any type of runtime fault is thrown that is not covered by the other faults; for example, a communication error.

Events

Type
None

Show WSDL type definition

         <element xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25" name="QueryPhysicalVsanDisks" type="vim25:QueryPhysicalVsanDisksRequestType"/>
         <element xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25" name="QueryPhysicalVsanDisksResponse">
                  <complexType>
                     <sequence>
                        <element name="returnval" type="xsd:string"/>
                     </sequence>
                  </complexType>
               </element>

QuerySyncingVsanObjects(querySyncingVsanObjects)

Query information about VSAN DOM objects that are currently syncing data. Instead of returning all objects, only such objects are returned that are currently resyncing any stale components or syncing fresh replicas. The API returns the same output format as queryVsanObjects(). It retrieves information about syncing all objects, or retricts the search for syncing objects to the UUID list provided. In order to make this API efficient, the output of this API contains the found DOM_OBJECT, and referenced LSOM_OBJECT and DISK entries.

Required Privileges: System.Read
Since: vSphere API 6.0

Parameters

Name

Type

Description

_this

ManagedObjectReference

A reference to the HostVsanInternalSystem used to make the method call.

uuids* P

xsd:string[]

List of VSAN/DOM object UUIDs to restrict search to.

Since vSphere API 5.5

*Need not be set P Required privilege: uuids

Return Value

Type	Description
xsd:string	JSON string with the results

Faults

Type	Description
RuntimeFault	Thrown if any type of runtime fault is thrown that is not covered by the other faults; for example, a communication error.

Events

Type
None

Show WSDL type definition

         <element xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25" name="QuerySyncingVsanObjects" type="vim25:QuerySyncingVsanObjectsRequestType"/>
         <element xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25" name="QuerySyncingVsanObjectsResponse">
                  <complexType>
                     <sequence>
                        <element name="returnval" type="xsd:string"/>
                     </sequence>
                  </complexType>
               </element>

QueryVsanObjects(queryVsanObjects)

Query information about VSAN DOM objects. Retrieves information about the given set of DOM object UUIDs. In order to make this API efficient, the output of this API contains the found DOM_OBJECT, and referenced LSOM_OBJECT and DISK entries.

Required Privileges: System.Read

Parameters

Name

Type

Description

_this

ManagedObjectReference

A reference to the HostVsanInternalSystem used to make the method call.

uuids* P

xsd:string[]

List of VSAN/DOM object UUIDs.

Since vSphere API 5.5

*Need not be set P Required privilege: uuids

Return Value

Type	Description
xsd:string	JSON string with the results

Faults

Type	Description
RuntimeFault	Thrown if any type of runtime fault is thrown that is not covered by the other faults; for example, a communication error.

Events

Type
None

Show WSDL type definition

         <element xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25" name="QueryVsanObjects" type="vim25:QueryVsanObjectsRequestType"/>
         <element xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25" name="QueryVsanObjectsResponse">
                  <complexType>
                     <sequence>
                        <element name="returnval" type="xsd:string"/>
                     </sequence>
                  </complexType>
               </element>

QueryVsanObjectUuidsByFilter(queryVsanObjectUuidsByFilter)

Query VSAN object UUIDs by filtering conditions. The API queries CMMDS by given filtering conditions (initially only for object version) and return object UUID in an array with limited elements count. If caller specified the inputs objects UUID, then only these objects will be checked for the filtering conditions, and return ones which satisfy the filtering condition. In this case, the 'limit' parameter will be ignored.

Required Privileges: System.Read
Since: vSphere API 6.0

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
_this	ManagedObjectReference	A reference to the HostVsanInternalSystem used to make the method call.
uuids* P	xsd:string[]	Objects UUID will be checked against the filtering conditions. *Since* vSphere API 6.0
limit* P	xsd:int	To limit the size of the result set. *Since* vSphere API 6.0
version* P	xsd:int	Filtering condition 1: object version. *Since* vSphere API 6.0

*Need not be set PRequired privilege - see tooltip for details

Return Value

Type	Description
xsd:string[]	String array of object uuids which satisfy the filtering conditions.

Faults

Type	Description
RuntimeFault	Thrown if any type of runtime fault is thrown that is not covered by the other faults; for example, a communication error.
VsanFault	Thrown for any unexpected failures.

Events

Type
None

Show WSDL type definition

         <element xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25" name="QueryVsanObjectUuidsByFilter" type="vim25:QueryVsanObjectUuidsByFilterRequestType"/>
         <element xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25" name="QueryVsanObjectUuidsByFilterResponse">
                  <complexType>
                     <sequence>
                        <element name="returnval" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
                     </sequence>
                  </complexType>
               </element>

QueryVsanStatistics(queryVsanStatistics)

Query VSAN system statistics. This is a low level API that gathers low level statistic counters from the system. The details of the counters remain undocumented and unsupported at this point, and this API remains internal. The data for this API call mostly comes from VSI, but also other tools like memstats. The caller can control which counters are being retrieved by providing a list of labels. The following labels are current supported: - TBD

Required Privileges: System.Read
Since: vSphere API 6.0

Parameters

Name

Type

Description

_this

ManagedObjectReference

A reference to the HostVsanInternalSystem used to make the method call.

labels P

xsd:string[]

List of labels of counters to retrieve.

Since vSphere API 5.5

P Required privilege: labels

Return Value

Type	Description
xsd:string	JSON string with the results

Faults

Type	Description
RuntimeFault	Thrown if any type of runtime fault is thrown that is not covered by the other faults; for example, a communication error.

Events

Type
None

Show WSDL type definition

         <element xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25" name="QueryVsanStatistics" type="vim25:QueryVsanStatisticsRequestType"/>
         <element xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25" name="QueryVsanStatisticsResponse">
                  <complexType>
                     <sequence>
                        <element name="returnval" type="xsd:string"/>
                     </sequence>
                  </complexType>
               </element>

ReconfigurationSatisfiable(reconfigurationSatisfiable)

Determine if the given objects can be reconfigured with the given policies. The what-if determination only takes into account the total number of hosts and total number of disks per host. The API is intended to answer the question: is this reconfiguration possible using the current cluster topology (#hosts and #disks) and does NOT take into account free space on the disk, size of disks, etc. If policy is not satisfiable, the API returns the reason for not being able to satisfy the policy. If the policy is satisfiable, the API returns the cost of provisioning objects with the new policy. This cost can be combined with current available free disk space to compute if a particular operation is expected to succeed or fail. Please note: This API ignores forceProvisioning.

Required Privileges: System.Read
Since: vSphere API 6.0

Parameters

Name

Type

Description

_this

ManagedObjectReference

A reference to the HostVsanInternalSystem used to make the method call.

pcbs P

VsanPolicyChangeBatch[]

List of PolicyChangeBatch structure with uuids and policies.

Since vSphere API 5.5

ignoreSatisfiability* P

xsd:boolean

Optionally populate PolicyCost even though object cannot be reconfigured in the current cluster topology.

Since vSphere API 5.5

*Need not be set PRequired privilege - see tooltip for details

Return Value

Type	Description
VsanPolicySatisfiability[]	List of PolicySatisfiability objects, one for each specified UUID.

Faults

Type	Description
RuntimeFault	Thrown if any type of runtime fault is thrown that is not covered by the other faults; for example, a communication error.
VimFault

Events

Type
None

Show WSDL type definition

         <element xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25" name="ReconfigurationSatisfiable" type="vim25:ReconfigurationSatisfiableRequestType"/>
         <element xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25" name="ReconfigurationSatisfiableResponse">
                  <complexType>
                     <sequence>
                        <element name="returnval" type="vim25:VsanPolicySatisfiability" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
                     </sequence>
                  </complexType>
               </element>

ReconfigureDomObject(reconfigureDomObject)

Reconfigure DOM object. Typically we expect VM centric APIs to be used for setting storage policies, i.e. to use ReconfigVM() to change the policy/profile of a namespace directory or virtual disk. This is a low level API to reconfigure any object known by UUID. This API is internal and intended for troubleshooting/debugging situations in the field.

Required Privileges: Host.Config.Storage
Since: vSphere API 6.0

Parameters

Name

Type

Description

_this

ManagedObjectReference

A reference to the HostVsanInternalSystem used to make the method call.

uuid P

xsd:string

DOM object UUID.

Since vSphere API 5.5

policy P

xsd:string

VSAN expression formatted policy string.

Since vSphere API 5.5

PRequired privilege - see tooltip for details

Return Value

Type	Description
None

Faults

Type	Description
RuntimeFault	Thrown if any type of runtime fault is thrown that is not covered by the other faults; for example, a communication error.

Events

Type
None

Show WSDL type definition

         <element xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25" name="ReconfigureDomObject" type="vim25:ReconfigureDomObjectRequestType"/>
         <element xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25" name="ReconfigureDomObjectResponse">
                  <complexType/>
               </element>

RunVsanPhysicalDiskDiagnostics(runVsanPhysicalDiskDiagnostics)

Runs diagnostics on VSAN physical disks. This method takes an active approach and creates a minimal and temporary object on each physical MD disk consumed by VSAN across the entire VSAN cluster. The temporary objects are deleted right away upon completion of creation. The result returns a list of all checked MDs, indicating wheather or not there was a problem creating an object on that MD at the given point in time.

Required Privileges: System.Read
Since: vSphere API 6.0

Parameters

Name

Type

Description

_this

ManagedObjectReference

A reference to the HostVsanInternalSystem used to make the method call.

disks* P

xsd:string[]

List of VSAN disk UUIDs. If specified restricts the diagnostics run to VSAN disks present in the provided list.

Since vSphere API 5.5

*Need not be set P Required privilege: disks

Return Value

Type	Description
HostVsanInternalSystemVsanPhysicalDiskDiagnosticsResult[]	A list of result structures. One per checked disk.

Faults

Type	Description
RuntimeFault	Thrown if any type of runtime fault is thrown that is not covered by the other faults; for example, a communication error.

Events

Type
None

Show WSDL type definition

         <element xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25" name="RunVsanPhysicalDiskDiagnostics" type="vim25:RunVsanPhysicalDiskDiagnosticsRequestType"/>
         <element xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25" name="RunVsanPhysicalDiskDiagnosticsResponse">
                  <complexType>
                     <sequence>
                        <element name="returnval" type="vim25:HostVsanInternalSystemVsanPhysicalDiskDiagnosticsResult" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
                     </sequence>
                  </complexType>
               </element>

UpgradeVsanObjects(upgradeVsanObjects)

Upgrade VSAN objects version. Upgrade a set of objects' version to new one in batch mode. API caller should limit the size of the inputs array, and suggested array size is 500 ~ 1000 initially. (The API will give more realistic suggestion after more experiments, then will apply hard limits in future)

Required Privileges: Host.Config.Storage
Since: vSphere API 6.0

Parameters

Name

Type

Description

_this

ManagedObjectReference

A reference to the HostVsanInternalSystem used to make the method call.

uuids P

xsd:string[]

The array of objects' UUID which will be upgraded.

Since vSphere API 6.0

newVersion P

xsd:int

The new version will be applied to objects.

Since vSphere API 6.0

PRequired privilege - see tooltip for details

Return Value

Type	Description
HostVsanInternalSystemVsanObjectOperationResult[]	Array of VsanObjectOperationResult, the array only contains result for failed objects, such as invalid or not existing UUID, upgrade failure, etc.

Faults

Type	Description
RuntimeFault	Thrown if any type of runtime fault is thrown that is not covered by the other faults; for example, a communication error.
VsanFault	Thrown for any unexpected failures.

Events

Type
None

Show WSDL type definition

         <element xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25" name="UpgradeVsanObjects" type="vim25:UpgradeVsanObjectsRequestType"/>
         <element xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25" name="UpgradeVsanObjectsResponse">
                  <complexType>
                     <sequence>
                        <element name="returnval" type="vim25:HostVsanInternalSystemVsanObjectOperationResult" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
                     </sequence>
                  </complexType>
               </element>