How to place vm on datastorecluster

LuckyT · ‎08-18-2015

Hi All,

I'm using below soap call to create VM. I'm looking a solution on how to place a VM on DatastoreCluster instead of Datastore directly. How do i pass DatastoreCluster id to the below soap call.

<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<soap:Header>
    <operationID>9F5D7810-000000D9</operationID>
</soap:Header>
<soap:Body>
    <CloneVM_Task xmlns="urn:internalvim25">
      <_this xsi:type="ManagedObjectReference" type="VirtualMachine" serverGuid="336D9B47-253F-4025-B90F-22808DD3F1CA">vm-43</_this>
      <folder type="Folder" serverGuid="336D9B47-253F-4025-B90F-22808DD3F1CA">group-v22</folder>
      <name>tempWin27</name>
      <spec>
        <location>
          <datastore type="Datastore" serverGuid="336D9B47-253F-4025-B90F-22808DD3F1CA">datastore-30</datastore>
          <pool type="ResourcePool" serverGuid="336D9B47-253F-4025-B90F-22808DD3F1CA">resgroup-27</pool>
          <disk>
            <diskId>2000</diskId>
            <datastore type="Datastore" serverGuid="336D9B47-253F-4025-B90F-22808DD3F1CA">datastore-30</datastore>
            <diskBackingInfo xsi:type="VirtualDiskFlatVer2BackingInfo">
              <fileName></fileName>
              <diskMode></diskMode>
              <thinProvisioned>true</thinProvisioned>
            </diskBackingInfo>
          </disk>
        </location>
        <template>false</template>
        <customization>
          <options xsi:type="CustomizationWinOptions">
            <changeSID>true</changeSID>
            <deleteAccounts>false</deleteAccounts>
          </options>
          <identity xsi:type="CustomizationSysprep">
            <guiUnattended>
              <password>
                <value>/E41SYPa0zwCILBAkEAsvnHBzyqMdUNDYt92OSGDAAC2us6hyWmYwikRENI4XgdXV7zrwMxJVLK1jKX0D8YebHsrCJENlHKxAN/VhnCLGTzgJLbDlYcjy4k5Nw0ievv9dYpVNolZ595x7LumfOWpTy7/60MKKF662WdjT2FEeoLk7DwFM7wswZ/hZ+UaQIISFvxCirsaKCXoqOa3eZQ3bmuvEFu/43uEkOoskOmRc7ItNPwkpWa0C7H4cnXPz1YRQYRW7+anT5eV7AMdQ7GOfqyC4/wsbwzI0HlzDrAvJvpCAewmarS6w1ZaieBxEZMhSDMtbkjWZK3zbedn2ahFZA==</value>
                <plainText>false</plainText>
              </password>
              <timeZone>190</timeZone>
              <autoLogon>false</autoLogon>
              <autoLogonCount>0</autoLogonCount>
            </guiUnattended>
            <userData>
              <fullName>test</fullName>
              <orgName>testorg</orgName>
              <computerName xsi:type="CustomizationFixedName">
                <name>testVM</name>
              </computerName>
              <productId></productId>
            </userData>
            <identification>
              <joinWorkgroup>WORKGROUP</joinWorkgroup>
            </identification>
          </identity>
          <globalIPSettings />
          <nicSettingMap>
            <adapter>
              <ip xsi:type="CustomizationFixedIp">
                <ipAddress>172.16.1.2</ipAddress>
              </ip>
              <subnetMask>255.255.255.0</subnetMask>
              <gateway>172.16.1.1</gateway>
              <gateway></gateway>
              <dnsServerList>202.144.66.6</dnsServerList>
              <dnsServerList>202.144.10.50</dnsServerList>
              <primaryWINS></primaryWINS>
              <secondaryWINS></secondaryWINS>
            </adapter>
          </nicSettingMap>
          </customization>
        </spec>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>