Re: Code Sample to create a new vmdk?

Hi,

Can anyone please let me know how to create new-vmdk in a datasore.

I know how attach an existing vmdk. (below is the code snippet). Do i need to tweak anything to create vmdk?

virtualDisk.controllerKey = 1000;

virtualDisk.controllerKeySpecified =true;

virtualDisk.unitNumber = (int)taskSpec.Location;

virtualDisk.unitNumberSpecified =true;

virtualDisk.capacityInKB = 1024 * 1024;

//backing file info

virtualDisk.backing =new VirtualDiskFlatVer2BackingInfo();

((VirtualDiskFlatVer2BackingInfo)virtualDisk.backing).fileName = taskSpec.Path;

((VirtualDiskFlatVer2BackingInfo)virtualDisk.backing).datastore = ds.mor;

((VirtualDiskFlatVer2BackingInfo)virtualDisk.backing).diskMode = "persistent";

//config spec

VirtualDeviceConfigSpec vdConfigSpecEdit = new VirtualDeviceConfigSpec();

vdConfigSpecEdit.device = virtualDisk;

vdConfigSpecEdit.operation =VirtualDeviceConfigSpecOperation.add;

vdConfigSpecEdit.operationSpecified =true;

vdConfigSpecEdit.fileOperationSpecified =false;

VirtualMachineConfigSpec vmConfigSpecEdit = new VirtualMachineConfigSpec();

vmConfigSpecEdit.deviceChange =new VirtualDeviceConfigSpec[1];

vmConfigSpecEdit.deviceChange[0] = vdConfigSpecEdit;

ManagedObjectReference result = this.ServiceUtil.GetConnection().Service.ReconfigVM_Task(

this.m_vmIdMorMap[taskSpec.VmGuid].obj, vmConfigSpecEdit);

TaskInfo reconfigVMTaskInfoEdit = (TaskInfo)this.ServiceUtil.getObjectProperty(result, "info");

while (reconfigVMTaskInfoEdit.state != TaskInfoState.success && reconfigVMTaskInfoEdit.state != TaskInfoState.error)

{

Thread.Sleep(1000);

reconfigVMTaskInfoEdit = (

TaskInfo)this.ServiceUtil.getObjectProperty(result, "info");

//have some timeout here.

}

Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated. I tried to look at the PowerCLI code, but its using interop calls rather than VIMService. So i dont know how to proceed with this problem.

Thanks in Advance,

Regards,

Dreamer