vcenter datastore: summary
The
summary structure contains commonly used information about a datastore.Representation:
{
"capacity": 1,
"datastore": "obj-103",
"free_space": 1,
"name": "string",
"type": "VMFS"
}
"capacity": 1,
"datastore": "obj-103",
"free_space": 1,
"name": "string",
"type": "VMFS"
}
Attributes:
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Required | ||
| datastore | string | Identifier of the datastore. When clients pass a value of this structure as a parameter, the field must be an identifier for the resource type: Datastore. When operations return a value of this structure as a result, the field will be an identifier for the resource type: Datastore. |
| name | string | Name of the datastore. |
| type | string | Type (VMFS, NFS, NFS41, CIFS, VSAN, VFFS, VVOL) of the datatore. Defines the supported types of vCenter datastores. Value is one of:VMFS: VMware File System (ESX Server only). NFS: Network file system v3 (linux & esx servers only). NFS41: Network file system v4.1 (linux & esx servers only). CIFS: Common Internet File System. VSAN: Virtual SAN (ESX Server only). VFFS: Flash Read Cache (ESX Server only). VVOL: vSphere Virtual Volume (ESX Server only). |
| Optional | ||
| free_space | long | Available space of this datastore, in bytes. The server periodically updates this value. Optional. This field will be unset if the available space of this datastore is not known. |
| capacity | long | Capacity of this datastore, in bytes. The server periodically updates this value. Optional. This field will be unset if the capacity of this datastore is not known. |