VMware: Increase Hard Disk Size

VMware: Increase Disk plugin step increases the hard disk size of a virtual machine on the specified vCenter server.

Configurations

No.	Field Name	Description
1	Step Name	Name of the step. This name has to be unique in a single workflow.
	Configuration:
1	vCenter Server Base URL	Specify the vCenter Server Base URL to connect to vCenter. (e.g.: https://vmware.example.com) Note: • If vCenter IP is given instead of vCenter server name, it may throw certificate error, because the certificate mostly contains entry of vCenter server in FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) format. In such a case vCenter IP entry must be present in the Subject Alternative Name field of the certificate. • Two or more virtual machines with the same name appear in the vCenter Server inventory. In this scenario, at the run time, the correct virtual machine object may not be used among duplicate virtual machine names. To resolve this issue, rename the duplicate virtual machine to a unique name for each entity.
2	Port	Specify the vCenter server port. (Default port is 443). This field should be an integer and value should be less than 65536.
3	Username	Specify a Username to authenticate vCenter server.
	Password:	The password to authenticate vCenter server.
4	Accept value as variable/static	Leave checkbox unchecked to accept Password value from a field in the previous steps of the stream using a drop down list. Else enable checkbox for Password field to appear as Text box.
5	Password	Password is entered using a widget. The widget handles both Text (static value or environment variable) and Combo (drop down containing values from previous steps). This field is mandatory. If checkbox above is enabled Password field appears as Text box and accepts static or variable values. Else if checkbox above is disabled Password field appears as a drop down to select fields from previous steps. Please Note: that Field values can only be accessed when workflow is in running state.
6	Button: Test Connection	Verifies whether the connection is available or not. For the purpose of verification fields coming from previous steps are not allowed since field values can only be accessed when workflow is in running state. Static values and environment variables are allowed.

Input Tab:

No.	Field Name	Description
1	Virtual Machine Name/UUID	Specify the Name/UUID of the virtual machine to which hard disk is attached to increase hard disk size. The data type is String. This field is mandatory. Note: • Refer Get VM UUID in the VMWare Plugin introduction for steps to fetch the VM UUID. • If two or more virtual machines with the same name appear in the vCenter Server inventory, then you may provide the UUID which is unique to each VM. • If VM name contains ‘%’ special character then to execute the plugin step, provide VM name by replacing ‘%’ character with ‘%25’.
2	Button: Get	On click of this button, if the connection is successfully established it populates the list of Virtual Machine Names on the vCenter server.
3	Hard Disk Name	Specify the name of the Hard Disk to increase size; attached to the specified VM. The data type is String. This field is mandatory.
4	Button: Get	On click of this button, if the connection is successfully established it populates the list of hard disk names attached with a virtual machine.
5	New Hard Disk Size	Specify the New Hard Disk Size to be given. ‘New Hard Disk Size’ should be greater than original size. ‘New Hard Disk Size’ should only be an integer. This field is mandatory.
6	Increase Size By Unit	Specify ‘Increase Size By Unit’, as ‘MB’ or ‘GB’ or ‘TB’. Hard disk size is modified by the given size unit. The data type is String. This field is mandatory.

Common Buttons:

No.	Field Name	Description
1	OK	Click this button to check and save the field values. If any required field values are missing then it will display a validation error message else if all the required field values are provided then it will save the field values.
2	Cancel	Click this button, to cancel the window and does not save any values.