Data Object Description

Space for Flex-SE disks is allocated on demand and optimizations are applied to achieve additional space savings.

Properties

Name	Type	Description
deltaDiskFormatsSupported	VirtualDiskDeltaDiskFormatsSupported[]	Delta disk formats supported for each datastore type.
diskMode	ChoiceOption	The disk mode. Valid disk modes are: persistent independent_persistent independent_nonpersistent See VirtualDiskMode
growable	xsd:boolean	Indicates whether or not this disk backing can be extended to larger sizes through a reconfigure operation. If set to true, reconfiguring this virtual disk with a capacityInKB value greater than its current value will grow the disk to the newly specified size.
hotGrowable	xsd:boolean	Indicates whether or not this disk backing can be extended to larger sizes through a reconfigure operation while the virtual machine is powered on. If set to true, reconfiguring this virtual disk with a capacityInKB value greater than its current value will grow the disk to the newly specified size while the virtual machine is powered on.
uuid	xsd:boolean	Flag to indicate whether this backing supports disk UUID property.
writeThrough	BoolOption	Flag to indicate whether or not the host supports allowing the client to select "writethrough" as a mode for virtual disks. Typically, this is available only for VMware Server Linux hosts.
Properties inherited from VirtualDeviceFileBackingOption
fileNameExtensions
Properties inherited from VirtualDeviceBackingOption
type
Properties inherited from DynamicData
dynamicProperty, dynamicType

Name

Type

Description

deltaDiskFormatsSupported

VirtualDiskDeltaDiskFormatsSupported[]

Delta disk formats supported for each datastore type.

diskMode

ChoiceOption

The disk mode. Valid disk modes are:

See VirtualDiskMode

growable

xsd:boolean

Indicates whether or not this disk backing can be extended to larger sizes through a reconfigure operation.

If set to true, reconfiguring this virtual disk with a capacityInKB value greater than its current value will grow the disk to the newly specified size.

hotGrowable

xsd:boolean

Indicates whether or not this disk backing can be extended to larger sizes through a reconfigure operation while the virtual machine is powered on.

If set to true, reconfiguring this virtual disk with a capacityInKB value greater than its current value will grow the disk to the newly specified size while the virtual machine is powered on.

uuid

xsd:boolean

Flag to indicate whether this backing supports disk UUID property.

writeThrough

BoolOption

Flag to indicate whether or not the host supports allowing the client to select "writethrough" as a mode for virtual disks. Typically, this is available only for VMware Server Linux hosts.

Properties inherited from VirtualDeviceFileBackingOption

fileNameExtensions

Properties inherited from VirtualDeviceBackingOption

type

Properties inherited from DynamicData

dynamicProperty, dynamicType

Show WSDL type definition

         <complexType xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25" name="VirtualDiskSeSparseBackingOption">
            <complexContent>
               <extension base="vim25:VirtualDeviceFileBackingOption">
                  <sequence>
                     <element name="diskMode" type="vim25:ChoiceOption"/>
                     <element name="writeThrough" type="vim25:BoolOption"/>
                     <element name="growable" type="xsd:boolean"/>
                     <element name="hotGrowable" type="xsd:boolean"/>
                     <element name="uuid" type="xsd:boolean"/>
                     <element name="deltaDiskFormatsSupported" type="vim25:VirtualDiskDeltaDiskFormatsSupported" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
                  </sequence>
               </extension>
            </complexContent>
         </complexType>

Data Object - VirtualDiskSeSparseBackingOption

Data Object Description