Data Object - VirtualMachineDefinedProfileSpec(vim.vm.DefinedProfileSpec)

Extends: VirtualMachineProfileSpec
See also: ReplicationSpec, VirtualMachineProfileRawData
Since: vSphere API 5.5

Data Object Description

Policy specification that carries a pre-defined Storage Policy to be associated with a Virtual Machine Home or a Virtual Disk object. Such a pre-defined policy can be either be vSphere Storage Administrator defined or may come from a set of pre-defined policies from Storage Vendor.

Neither the association nor the policy data is persisted in Virtual Machine configuration. This data is managed by the an extension of Virtual Center (Storage Policy Based Management).

Properties

Name	Type	Description
profileData*	VirtualMachineProfileRawData	Profile data sent to the Storage Backend by vSphere. This data is provided by the SPBM component of the vSphere platform. This field should not be set by Virtual Center users.
profileId	xsd:string	Storage Policy Profile identification - Should be pbm.profileId but for implementation reasons, could not be.
replicationSpec*	ReplicationSpec	Specification containing replication related parameters, sent to the Replication Data Service provider. *Since* vSphere API 6.5
Properties inherited from VirtualMachineProfileSpec
None
Properties inherited from DynamicData
None

*Need not be set
Show WSDL type definition

         <complexType xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25" name="VirtualMachineDefinedProfileSpec">
            <complexContent>
               <extension base="vim25:VirtualMachineProfileSpec">
                  <sequence>
                     <element name="profileId" type="xsd:string"/>
                     <element name="replicationSpec" type="vim25:ReplicationSpec" minOccurs="0"/>
                     <element name="profileData" type="vim25:VirtualMachineProfileRawData" minOccurs="0"/>
                  </sequence>
               </extension>
            </complexContent>
         </complexType>