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ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 10.1

Create vVols datastore

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You can create vVols datastore with new volumes or with existing volumes. You can also create vVols datastore with the combination of existing volumes and new volumes.

Note Check to ensure root aggregates are not mapped to SVM.

Generate a JWT token before creating datastores or increase the SAML token expiry by setting 'Maximum Bearer Token Lifetime' to 60m on vCenter.

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

  1. Create vVols datastore with new volume.

Get Aggregate id, storage_id(SVM uuid) using ONTAP REST API. POST /virtualization/api/v1/vcenters/cdded9ad-6bsd-4c9e-b44g-691250bfe2df/vvols/datastores

Use the following URI to check the status:

+

`\https://xx.xx.xx.xxx:8443/virtualization/api/jobmanager/v2/jobs/<JobID>?includeSubJobsAndTasks=true`

+ Request Body for NFS datastore

{ "name":"nfsds1", "protocol":"nfs", "platform_type":"aff", "moref":"domain-c8", "volumes":[ { "is_existing":false, "name":"vol_nfs_pvt", "size_in_mb":2048000, "space_efficiency":"thin", "aggregate":{ "id":"d7078b3c-3827-4ac9-9273-0a32909455c2" }, "qos":{ "min_iops":200, "max_iops":5000 } } ], "storage_backend":{ "storage_id":"654c67bc-0f75-11ee-8a8c-00a09860a3ff" } }

Request body for iSCSI datastore: { "name" : "iscsi_custom", "protocol" : "iscsi", "platform_type": "aff", "moref" : "domain-c8", "volumes" : [ { "is_existing" : false, "name" : "iscsi_custom", "size_in_mb" : 8034, "space_efficiency" : "thin", "aggregate" : { "id" : "54fe5dd4-e461-49c8-bb2d-6d62c5d75af2" } } ], "custom_igroup_name": "igroup1", "storage_backend": { "storage_id": "eb9d33ab-1960-11ee-9506-00a0985c6d9b" } } . Create vVols datastore with existing volumes.

Get aggregate_id and volume_id using ONTAP REST API.

POST /virtualization/api/v1/vcenters/cdded9ad-6bsd-4c9e-b44g-691250bfe2df/vvols/datastores

Request Body

 {
"name" : "nfsds2",
"protocol" : "nfs",
"platform_type": "aff",
"moref" : "domain-c8",
"volumes" : [
    {
          "is_existing": true,
          "id": "e632a632-1412-11ee-8a8c-00a09860a3ff"
        }
],
"storage_backend": {
                    "storage_id": "33a8b6b3-10cd-11ee-8a8c-00a09860a3ff"    }

}