Data Object - DatastoreCapability

Property of: Datastore, VirtualMachineDatastoreInfo
Extends: DynamicData

Data Object Description

Information about the capabilities of this datastore.

Properties

Name	Type	Description
directoryHierarchySupported	xsd:boolean	Indicates whether or not directories can be created on this datastore.
perFileThinProvisioningSupported	xsd:boolean	Indicates whether or not the datastore supports thin provisioning on a per file basis. When thin provisioning is used, backing storage is lazily allocated. This is supported by VMFS3. VMFS2 always allocates storage eagerly. Thus, this value is false for VMFS2. Most NAS systems always use thin provisioning. They do not support configuring this on a per file basis, so for NAS systems this value is also false.
rawDiskMappingsSupported	xsd:boolean	Indicates whether or not raw disk mappings can be created on this datastore.
storageIORMSupported	xsd:boolean	Indicates whether the datastore supports Storage I/O Resource Management. *Since* vSphere API 4.1
Properties inherited from DynamicData
dynamicProperty, dynamicType

Show WSDL type definition

         <complexType xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25" name="DatastoreCapability">
            <complexContent>
               <extension base="vim25:DynamicData">
                  <sequence>
                     <element name="directoryHierarchySupported" type="xsd:boolean"/>
                     <element name="rawDiskMappingsSupported" type="xsd:boolean"/>
                     <element name="perFileThinProvisioningSupported" type="xsd:boolean"/>
                     <element name="storageIORMSupported" type="xsd:boolean" minOccurs="0"/>
                  </sequence>
               </extension>
            </complexContent>
         </complexType>