vcenter vm hardware disk: backing info

The backing_info structure contains information about the physical resource backing a virtual disk.

Representations:

{
    "type""VMDK_FILE",
    "vmdk_file""string"
}
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<ns0:BackingInfo xmlns:ns0="http://vmware.com/vcenter/vm/hardware/disk" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <vmdk_file>string</vmdk_file>
  <type>VMDK_FILE</type>
</ns0:BackingInfo>

Attributes:

Name Type Description
Required
type string Backing type for the virtual disk.

Defines the valid backing types for a virtual disk. Value is one of:
VMDK_FILE: Virtual disk is backed by a VMDK file.

Optional
vmdk_file string Path of the VMDK file backing the virtual disk.

Optional. It is only relevant when type has value VMDK_FILE. This field is optional and it is only relevant when the value of type is VMDK_FILE.