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irene_zimmerman
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Grow disk in VMO

Hi,

I'm using VMO to clone and sysprep VMs.

The workflow works fine but now customers requested larger os disks.

The clone from template task will create a 20GB Disk (Harddisk 1) and sysprep.inf is customized to extend os partition (ExtendOEMPartition=1). When I pause the workflow and grow the disk manually using vmkfstools -X or the vCenter API and then restart the workflow I end up with a larger os disk, just as I wanted.

How can I do the disk resizing part in vmo to automate the whole workflow again?

Here's the code I was working on, the replace and edit operations throw errors in VC (the workflow ends successfully):

var devices=vm.config.hardware.device;

//getting OS disk

for (i in devices){

var device=devices;

if (device.deviceInfo.label == "Hard Disk 1" && System.getObjectClassName(device)=="VimVirtualDisk") {

var disk=device;

+System.log("Disk: " + disk);+

break;

}

}

+

//create spec

if (device != null) {+

var configSpec = new VimVirtualMachineConfigSpec();

var deviceConfigSpecs = new Array();

+var deviceConfigSpec;

var capacityInKb = parseInt( "" + (capacityInGB10241024) );+

disk.capacityInKB = capacityInKb;

+System.log(disk.capacityInKB);

deviceConfigSpec = new VimVirtualDeviceConfigSpec();+

deviceConfigSpec.device = disk;

deviceConfigSpec.fileOperation = VimVirtualDeviceConfigSpecFileOperation.replace;

deviceConfigSpec.operation = VimVirtualDeviceConfigSpecOperation.edit;

+deviceConfigSpecs[0] = deviceConfigSpec;

// List of devices+

+configSpec.deviceChange = deviceConfigSpecs;

// Launch the reconfigVM task+

+task = vm.reconfigVM_Task( configSpec );

}

Error in VC either "Invalid operation for device '0' " or "Invalid configuration for device '0' ".

Thanks for help.+

+Irene

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admin
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Hi,

Maybe you could a simple clone operation, reconfig the virtual machine and then call the "customize vm without clone" workflow.

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irene_zimmerman
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Hi Cédric,

I don't see where I could configure a bigger hard disk. Could you specify your idea a bit more?

Thanks.

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admin
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I think you can use the ReconfigVM_Task equivalent to reconfigure a VM.

I will try to see if I can come up with a workflow that allows you to do that.

Sia

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irene_zimmerman
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Hi all,

I found a solution to my problem! Quite simple actually.

I used the line

deviceConfigSpec.fileOperation = VimVirtualDeviceConfigSpecFileOperation.replace;

because I thougt it is a file operation im doing here, but it is not needed. So I simply skiped this line and used only this:

deviceConfigSpec.operation = VimVirtualDeviceConfigSpecOperation.edit;

and voilà it worked.

Thanks for your suggestions,

Irene

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