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Disk 1 needs to be resized from 1TB to 300GB
Disk 2 needs to be resized from 250GB to 300GB
New Disk 3 of 300GB needs to be added.

Prerequisites

Valid access token.
Access to Virtual Machine
Virtual Machine name.

Step-by-step guide

Get virtual machine UUID ID, either moref or uuid using the search feature in the /vm resource:

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title	Request

http -a $TK GET "https://vss-api.eis.utoronto.ca:8001/v2/vm?name=vm-testing&summarylike,%Frontend2%&short=1" "Authorization: Bearer $TK"

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{
    "_links": {
        "apiself": "https://vss-api-dev.eis.utoronto.ca:8001/v2/vm?filter=name,like,%25Frontend2%25&short=1"
    },
    "data": [
        {
            "hostname": null,
        "self    "ip_address": "https://vss-api.eis.utoronto.ca:8001/v2/vm"
    },",
            "moref": "vm-2183",
            "name": "2004T-Frontend2",
            "power_state": "poweredOff",
            "datauuid": [ "50309a8a-88ca-5291-2ad3-63f2522c3f8e"
        }
    ],
    "meta": {
        "count": 1,
        "_linksfilter": { "name,like,%Frontend2%",
        "pages": {
            "selffirst_url": "https://vss-api-dev.eis.utoronto.ca:8001/v2/vm/<vm_uuid>"?filter=name%2Clike%2C%25Frontend2%25&page=1&per_page=100&expand=True",
             }"last_url": "https://vss-api-dev.eis.utoronto.ca/v2/vm?filter=name%2Clike%2C%25Frontend2%25&page=1&per_page=100&expand=True",
            "namenext_url": null,
"1606D-vm-testing"            "page": 1,
            "uuidpages": "<vm_uuid>"1,
        }     ],"per_page": 100,
            "metaprev_url": {null,
            "counttotal": 1
        },
        "time": "100.13983s00804s",
        "user": "josemjm"
    }
}

Since vSphere does not support disk "shrinking" (unless it's the disk is cloned to a new target disk), we would need to remove Disk 1 and create a new Disk 1 of 300GB. This can be done as follows:

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# HTTP DELETE method to the right disk resource will remove the disk
http -a $TK DELETE "https://vss-api.eis.utoronto.ca:8001/v2/vm/<vm_uuid>-id>/disk/1" "Authorization: Bearer $TK"
 
# HTTP POST to disk 1 resource will create a new 300GB disk as 
# specified in the attribute value
http -a $TK POST "https://vss-api.eis.utoronto.ca:8001/v2/vm/<vm_uuid>-id>/disk/1" "Authorization: Bearer $TK" value:='[300]'

Verifying Disk 1 settings:

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language	bash
title	Request

http -a $TK GET "https://vss-api.eis.utoronto.ca:8001/v2/vm/<vm_uuid>/disk/1" "Authorization: Bearer $TK"

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{
    "_links": {
        "selfdisk": "https://vss-api-dev.eis.utoronto.ca:8001/v2/vm/<vm_uuid>vm-2183/disk/1",
        "vmself": "https://vss-api-dev.eis.utoronto.ca:8001/v2/vm/vm/<vm_uuid>-2183/disk/1"
    },
    "data": [
        {
            "capacityGBcapacity_gb": 300,
            "controller": {
                "type": "LSI Logic",
                "virtualDeviceNodevirtual_device_node": "SCSI controller 0:10"
            },
            "description": "314,572,800 KB",
            "fileNamekey": "[CL-NSTOR47-NFS-vol31] 1606D-vm-testing/1606D-vm-testing_1.vmdk"2000,
            "label": "Hard disk 1",
            "provisioningshares": "Thin", {
                "shareslevel": {"normal",
                "levelshares": "normal",1000
            },
   "shares": 1000             }"unit": 1
        }
    ],
    "meta": {
        "count": 1,
        "time": "0.04656s03733s",
        "user": "jm"
    }
}

Adding Disk 3 is done making a POST request to /vm/<vm_uuid>/disk /3 resource:

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http -a $TK POST "https://vss-api.eis.utoronto.ca:8001/v2/vm/<vm_uuid>-id>/disk/3"" "Authorization: Bearer $TK" value:='[300]'

Verifying new disk layout:

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http -a $TK GET "https://vss-api.eis.utoronto.ca:8001/v2/vm/<vm_uuid>-id>/disk" "Authorization: Bearer $TK"

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title	Response Body
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{
    "_links": {
        "self": "https://vss-api.eis.utoronto.ca:8001/v2/vm/<vm_uuid>-id>/disk",
        "vm": "https://vss-api.eis.utoronto.ca:8001/v2/vm/<vm_uuid>-id>"
    },
    "data": [
        {
            "_links": {
                "self": "https://vss-api.eis.utoronto.ca:8001/v2/vm/<vm_uuid>-id>/disk/1"
            },
            "capacityGB": 300,
            "labelunit": "Hard disk 1"
        },
        {
            "_links": {
                "self": "https://vss-api.eis.utoronto.ca:8001/v2/vm/<vm_uuid>-id>/disk/2"
            },
            "capacityGB": 300,
            "labelunit": "Hard disk 2"
        },
        {
            "_links": {
                "self": "https://vss-api.eis.utoronto.ca:8001/v2/vm/<vm_uuid>-id>/disk/3"
            },
            "capacityGB": 300,
            "labelunit": "Hard disk 3"
        }
    ],
    "meta": {
        "count": 2,
        "time": "0.05709s",
        "user": "jm"
    }
}

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