REST API - summary

vcenter folder: summary

The summary structure contains commonly used information about a folder.

Representations:

JSON
XML

{
    "folder": "obj-103",
    "name": "string",
    "type": "DATACENTER"
}

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<ns0:Summary xmlns:ns0="http://vmware.com/vcenter/folder" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <folder>obj-103</folder>
  <name>string</name>
  <type>DATACENTER</type>
</ns0:Summary>

Attributes:

Name	Type	Description
Required
folder	string	Identifier of the folder. When clients pass a value of this structure as a parameter, the field must be an identifier for the resource type: `Folder`. When operations return a value of this structure as a result, the field will be an identifier for the resource type: `Folder`.
name	string	Name of the vCenter Server folder.
type	string	Type (`DATACENTER`, `DATASTORE`, `HOST`, `NETWORK`, `VIRTUAL_MACHINE`) of the vCenter Server folder. Defines the type of a vCenter Server folder. The type of a folder determines what what kinds of children can be contained in the folder. Value is one of: DATACENTER: A folder that can contain datacenters. DATASTORE: A folder that can contain datastores. HOST: A folder that can contain compute resources (hosts and clusters). NETWORK: A folder that can contain networkds. VIRTUAL_MACHINE: A folder that can contain virtual machines.