Data Object - VirtualMachineFileLayoutEx

Property of: VirtualMachine
Extends: DynamicData
See also: VirtualMachineFileLayoutExDiskLayout, VirtualMachineFileLayoutExFileInfo, VirtualMachineFileLayoutExSnapshotLayout
Since: vSphere API 4.0

Data Object Description

Detailed description of files that make up a virtual machine on disk. The file layout is broken into 4 major sections:

Configuration: Files stored in the configuration directory
Log: Files stored in the log directory
Disk: Files stored relative to a disk configuration file
Snapshot: Stored in the snapshot directory

Often the same directory is used for configuration, log, disk and snapshots.

Properties

Name	Type	Description
disk*	VirtualMachineFileLayoutExDiskLayout[]	Layout of each virtual disk attached to the virtual machine. For a virtual machine with snaphots, this property gives only those disks that are attached to it at the current point of running.
file*	VirtualMachineFileLayoutExFileInfo[]	Information about all the files that constitute the virtual machine including configuration files, disks, swap file, suspend file, log files, core files, memory file etc. VirtualMachineFileLayoutExFileType lists the different file-types that make a virtual machine.
snapshot*	VirtualMachineFileLayoutExSnapshotLayout[]	Layout of each snapshot of the virtual machine.
timestamp	xsd:dateTime	Time when values in this structure were last updated.
Properties inherited from DynamicData
dynamicProperty, dynamicType

*Need not be set
Show WSDL type definition

         <complexType xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25" name="VirtualMachineFileLayoutEx">
            <complexContent>
               <extension base="vim25:DynamicData">
                  <sequence>
                     <element name="file" type="vim25:VirtualMachineFileLayoutExFileInfo" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
                     <element name="disk" type="vim25:VirtualMachineFileLayoutExDiskLayout" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
                     <element name="snapshot" type="vim25:VirtualMachineFileLayoutExSnapshotLayout" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
                     <element name="timestamp" type="xsd:dateTime"/>
                  </sequence>
               </extension>
            </complexContent>
         </complexType>