InstantClone APi ??

[balaga32]

Hello,


From http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere/VMware-vSphere-Whats-New.pdf, there is a new feature 'InstantClone'. Will there be any webservices API to perform the Instantclone ?


Thanks,Balu

[martinriley]

All is quiet it seems regarding the Instant Clone tech as I've discovered here:

vMustard.com - Whatever happened to Project Fargo?

Indications are it will initially at least only be made available for leverage via Private API by Horizon View and BDE, hopefully it'll make an appearance soon with a more widely available API as I'm very keen to see what it can do!

[rszymczak]

Anyone yet found that private API calls? Yeah I'm aware it's compleatly unsupported yadeyadeya ...

[kebr]

I have the same question, webservices api would be great, there's already a bunch of other API that's marked experimental

[kebr]

I guess the real question is: what accepts vim.vm.CreateChildSpec?

[kebr]

Great post about this, get's us much further:

https://www.higebu.com/2016-04-27-vmfork-using-mob-en.html

The methods are:

• CreateForkChild_Task
• EnableForkParent_Task
• DisableForkParent_Task
• RetrieveForkChildren_Task
• RetrieveForkParent_Task

However, while these methods seem to work in the mob browser, I can't find them in the wsdl (I could be wrong here)

EDIT: fixed link

[kebr]

For those that are still watching VMFork for pyVmomi‌ More or less documents these internal APIs