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Sample Request: Add new Thin Provisioned disk to VM

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#87 opened on Jul 16, 2014

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Description

Based on the datastores available to a VM by virtue of the VM being a part of a cluster, choose an optimal datastore (space available?) and thin provision a disk of a specific size.

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Research direction
Study pyVmomi's ReconfigVM Task method and datastore query to implement selecting the datastore with most free space and adding a thin provisioned disk.
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python
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backend
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2
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1-3 hours
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75