Create a First Class Disk

To create a First Class Disk (FCD), you make a POST request using the block device specification. The request body includes a project ID, disk capacity, persistence setting, and constraints from the vSphere Storage Profile for an FCD creation.

Prerequisites

• Verify that all general prerequisites and prerequisites for the Automation Assembler Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) service have been satisfied. See Prerequisites for API Use Case Examples.
• Verify that you have added a project and you have the project ID. See Create a Project to use in Automation Assembler.
• Know the capacity of the disk and the persistence of the disk that you are creating.
• Verify that you have created a storage profile for an FCD and that you have the defaultItem and the tags from the response. See Create a vSphere Storage Profile for a First Class Disk.

Procedure

1. Assign the project ID variable.

   project_id='<your_project_id>'

2. Set the capacity and persistence for the disk.

   capacity_in_gb=<integer>
   persistence=<true|false>
   

3. Deploy the FCD.
   • With mandatory set to true, all tags in the expression must match a storage profile, otherwise provisioning fails.
   • The expression is the key:value tag pair used to create the storage profile. See Create a vSphere Storage Profile for a First Class Disk.

   curl -X POST \
     $url/iaas/api/block-devices?apiVersion=$api_version \
     -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" \
     -d '{
       "projectId": "'$project_id'",
       "name": "FCD-example",
       "capacityInGB": "'$capacity_in_gb'",
       "persistent" : "'$persistent'",
       "constraints": [
           {
               "mandatory": "true",
               "expression": "type:fcd"
           }
       ]
   }' | jq "."

   The response includes a selfLink value.

   {
     "progress": 0,
     "status": "INPROGRESS",
     "name": "Provisioning",
     "id": "example-selfLink-alphanumeric-string",
     "selfLink": "/iaas/api/request-tracker/example-selfLink-alphanumeric-string"
   }

4. Assign the selfLink variable.

   selfLink_id='example-selfLink-alphanumeric-string'

5. Use the selfLink variable to track the progress of the FCD creation.

   curl -X GET -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" $url/iaas/api/request-tracker/$selfLink_id?apiVersion=$api_version | jq "."
   

   In the list of resources, the response includes block devices with the block device ID in the path.

   {
     "progress": 100,
     "message": "success",
     "status": "FINISHED",
     "resources": [
       "/iaas/api/block-devices/example-blockdevice-alphanumeric-string"
     ],
     ...
   }

6. Assign the block device ID variable.

   block_device_id='example-blockdevice-alphanumeric-string'

7. (Optional) Retrieve the created block device object.

   curl -X GET -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" $url/iaas/api/block-devices/$block_device_id?apiVersion=$api_version | jq "."
   

8. (Optional) Retrieve all the FCD block device types.

   curl -X GET -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" "$url/iaas/api/block-devices?%24filter=customProperties.diskType%20eq%20firstClass&apiVersion=$api_version" | jq "."
   

9. (Optional) Delete the FCD block device.

   curl -X DELETE -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" $url/iaas/api/block-devices/$block_device_id?apiVersion=$api_version | jq "."
   

Example: Create a First Class Disk

With constraints from a vSphere Storage Profile for FCD storage, use the block device specification to deploy a First Class Disk for a project ID with a two GB capacity and persistence set to false.

Note: If your organization uses an API service that is hosted outside of the United States, your URL variable must include a country abbreviation. See Regional Endpoints for VMware Aria Automation APIs.

$ url='https://api.mgmt.cloud.vmware.com'
$ api_version='2021-07-15'
$ project_id='f5357a28-df59-47e0-b983-8a562910d0be'
$ capacity_in_gb=2
$ persistent=false

Deploy the FCD.

$ curl -X POST \
  $url/iaas/api/block-devices?apiVersion=$api_version \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" \
  -d '{
    "projectId": "'$project_id'",
    "name": "FCD-example",
    "capacityInGB": "'$capacity_in_gb'",
    "persistent" : "'$persistent'",
    "constraints": [
        {
            "mandatory": "true",
            "expression": "type:fcd"
        }
    ]
}' | jq "."

The response provides a selfLink to the request.

{
  "progress": 0,
  "status": "INPROGRESS",
  "name": "Provisioning",
  "id": "86707da6-d5d6-4ebc-94a2-0a22f3fcb794",
  "selfLink": "/iaas/api/request-tracker/86707da6-d5d6-4ebc-94a2-0a22f3fcb794"
}

Assign the selfLink ID variable.

$ selfLink_id='86707da6-d5d6-4ebc-94a2-0a22f3fcb794'

Track the progress of the request.

$ curl -X GET -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" $url/iaas/api/request-tracker/$selfLink_id?apiVersion=$api_version | jq "."

After the request completes successfully, the response provides the block device ID.

{
  "progress": 100,
  "message": "success",
  "status": "FINISHED",
  "resources": [
    "/iaas/api/block-devices/e1cbc8e1-76bb-4bef-8e51-a582437266c2"
  ],
  "name": "Provisioning",
  "id": "86707da6-d5d6-4ebc-94a2-0a22f3fcb794",
  "selfLink": "/iaas/api/request-tracker/86707da6-d5d6-4ebc-94a2-0a22f3fcb794"
}

Assign the block device ID variable.

$ block_device_id='e1cbc8e1-76bb-4bef-8e51-a582437266c2'

What to do next

Use the block device ID to attach your FCD to a VM and manage your FCD snapshots. See Attach a First Class Disk and Manage First Class Disk Snapshots.