vcenter folder: summary

The summary structure contains commonly used information about a folder.

Representations:

{
    "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.