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ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 10.1

Mount and unmount vVols datastore

Contributors netapp-jani

You can mount a VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols) datastore to one or more additional hosts to provide storage access to additional hosts. You can unmount vVols datastore using APIs.

Use the following API to mount or unmount a vVols datastore. You need to pass x-auth for the API. You can generate this x-auth from the new API added under Auth in Swagger.

/virtualization/api/v1/auth/vcenter-login
PATCH
/virtualization/api/v1/vcenters/{vcguid}/vvols/datastores/{moref}/hosts

Get vVol datastore moref from vCenter.

Request Body

{
  "operation": "mount",
  "morefs": [
    "host-7044"
  ],
}

Examples: * Mount on additional host

Use the following API to mount on additional host:

/api/v1/vcenters/cdded9ad-6bsd-4c9e-b44g-691250bfe2df/vvols/datastores/datastore-24/hosts

     Request Body
     {
      "operation": "mount",
      "morefs": ["host-13"],
     }

  • Unmount on additional host

Use the following API to unmount on additional host:

/api/v1/vcenters/cdded9ad-6bsd-4c9e-b44g-691250bfe2df/vvols/datastores/datastore-24/hosts

     Request Body
     {
      "operation": "unmount",
      "morefs": ["host-13"],
     }