We are attempting to create a vmdk that points to an iSCSI target via a RDM. Our goal is to have this process be 100% automated via the SOAP API, but cannot find the necessary function calls within the API to create the vmdk. We can do so manually by connecting to the ESX host and using the vmkfstools command, but this requires that SSH be enabled on the host and we would definitely prefer not to have to do that. Our hope is that the API would allow us to do the same commands, but does not appear to have support for this use case.
Is this possible using the API, or is there a different path we could take that would result in the same goal?