Data Object Description

Space for space efficient sparse disks is allocated on demand and optimizations are applied to achieve additional space savings. The effective space usage of such a disk can be obtained from VirtualMachineFileLayoutEx.

Properties

Name	Type	Description
changeId*	xsd:string	The change ID of the virtual disk for the corresponding snapshot or virtual machine. This can be used to track incremental changes to a virtual disk. See QueryChangedDiskAreas.
contentId*	xsd:string	Content ID of the virtual disk file, if available. A content ID indicates the logical contents of the disk backing and its parents. This property is only guaranteed to be up to date if this disk backing is not currently being written to by any virtual machine. The only supported operation is comparing if two content IDs are equal or not. The guarantee provided by the content ID is that if two disk backings have the same content ID and are not currently being written to, then reads issued from the guest operating system to those disk backings will return the same data.
deltaDiskFormat*	xsd:string	The format of the delta disk. This field is valid only for a delta disk. See DeltaDiskFormat for the supported formats. If not specified, the default value used is redoLogFormat.
digestEnabled*	xsd:boolean	Indicates whether the disk backing has digest file enabled.
diskMode	xsd:string	The disk persistence mode. Valid modes are: vim.vm.device.VirtualDiskOption.DiskMode#persistent vim.vm.device.VirtualDiskOption.DiskMode#independent_persistent vim.vm.device.VirtualDiskOption.DiskMode#independent_nonpersistent vim.vm.device.VirtualDiskOption.DiskMode#nonpersistent vim.vm.device.VirtualDiskOption.DiskMode#undoable vim.vm.device.VirtualDiskOption.DiskMode#append See VirtualDiskMode
grainSize*	xsd:int	Specify the grain size in kB. The default size is 4 kB.
keyId*	CryptoKeyId	Virtual Disk Backing encryption options. On modification operations the value is ignored, use the specification crypto in backing. *Since* vSphere API 6.5
parent*	VirtualDiskSeSparseBackingInfo	The parent of this virtual disk file, if this is a delta disk backing. This will be unset if this is not a delta disk backing. A delta disk backing is a way to preserve a virtual disk backing at some point in time. A delta disk backing is a file backing which in turn points to the original virtual disk backing (the parent). After a delta disk backing is added, all writes go to the delta disk backing. All reads first try the delta disk backing and then try the parent backing if needed. A delta disk backing can be added to a disk either implicitly during snapshot operations, or explicitly during create or reconfigure of the virtual machine. Note that the type of the backing is consistent throughout the chain; any new delta disk backing which is added is of the same type as the original disk . Also note that since the parent backing is not being written to, it is possible that the parent backing may be shared among multiple disks belonging to multiple virtual machines. During virtual machine CreateVM_Task and ReconfigVM_Task this property is only checked if the VirtualDeviceConfigSpec specifies an add operation with a create file operation. In this case, a new delta disk backing is created which points to the parent disk backing. Only the fileName property is important; all other properties will be ignored. The parent backing is assumed to exist and will not be recursively created. This property may only be set if deltaDiskBackingsSupported is true.
uuid*	xsd:string	Disk UUID for the virtual disk, if available.
writeThrough*	xsd:boolean	Flag to indicate whether writes should go directly to the file system or should be buffered.
Properties inherited from VirtualDeviceFileBackingInfo
backingObjectId, datastore, fileName
Properties inherited from VirtualDeviceBackingInfo
None
Properties inherited from DynamicData
None

Name

Type

Description

changeId*

xsd:string

The change ID of the virtual disk for the corresponding snapshot or virtual machine. This can be used to track incremental changes to a virtual disk. See QueryChangedDiskAreas.

contentId*

xsd:string

Content ID of the virtual disk file, if available.

A content ID indicates the logical contents of the disk backing and its parents.

This property is only guaranteed to be up to date if this disk backing is not currently being written to by any virtual machine.

The only supported operation is comparing if two content IDs are equal or not. The guarantee provided by the content ID is that if two disk backings have the same content ID and are not currently being written to, then reads issued from the guest operating system to those disk backings will return the same data.

deltaDiskFormat*

xsd:string

The format of the delta disk.

This field is valid only for a delta disk.

See DeltaDiskFormat for the supported formats. If not specified, the default value used is redoLogFormat.

digestEnabled*

xsd:boolean

Indicates whether the disk backing has digest file enabled.

diskMode

xsd:string

The disk persistence mode. Valid modes are:

vim.vm.device.VirtualDiskOption.DiskMode#persistent
vim.vm.device.VirtualDiskOption.DiskMode#independent_persistent
vim.vm.device.VirtualDiskOption.DiskMode#independent_nonpersistent
vim.vm.device.VirtualDiskOption.DiskMode#nonpersistent
vim.vm.device.VirtualDiskOption.DiskMode#undoable
vim.vm.device.VirtualDiskOption.DiskMode#append

See VirtualDiskMode

grainSize*

xsd:int

Specify the grain size in kB. The default size is 4 kB.

keyId*

CryptoKeyId

Virtual Disk Backing encryption options. On modification operations the value is ignored, use the specification crypto in backing.

Since vSphere API 6.5

parent*

VirtualDiskSeSparseBackingInfo

The parent of this virtual disk file, if this is a delta disk backing. This will be unset if this is not a delta disk backing.

A delta disk backing is a way to preserve a virtual disk backing at some point in time. A delta disk backing is a file backing which in turn points to the original virtual disk backing (the parent). After a delta disk backing is added, all writes go to the delta disk backing. All reads first try the delta disk backing and then try the parent backing if needed.

A delta disk backing can be added to a disk either implicitly during snapshot operations, or explicitly during create or reconfigure of the virtual machine.

Note that the type of the backing is consistent throughout the chain; any new delta disk backing which is added is of the same type as the original disk . Also note that since the parent backing is not being written to, it is possible that the parent backing may be shared among multiple disks belonging to multiple virtual machines.

During virtual machine CreateVM_Task and ReconfigVM_Task this property is only checked if the VirtualDeviceConfigSpec specifies an add operation with a create file operation. In this case, a new delta disk backing is created which points to the parent disk backing. Only the fileName property is important; all other properties will be ignored. The parent backing is assumed to exist and will not be recursively created.

This property may only be set if deltaDiskBackingsSupported is true.

uuid*

xsd:string

Disk UUID for the virtual disk, if available.

writeThrough*

xsd:boolean

Flag to indicate whether writes should go directly to the file system or should be buffered.

Properties inherited from VirtualDeviceFileBackingInfo

backingObjectId, datastore, fileName

Properties inherited from VirtualDeviceBackingInfo

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="VirtualDiskSeSparseBackingInfo">
            <complexContent>
               <extension base="vim25:VirtualDeviceFileBackingInfo">
                  <sequence>
                     <element name="diskMode" type="xsd:string"/>
                     <element name="writeThrough" type="xsd:boolean" minOccurs="0"/>
                     <element name="uuid" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0"/>
                     <element name="contentId" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0"/>
                     <element name="changeId" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0"/>
                     <element name="parent" type="vim25:VirtualDiskSeSparseBackingInfo" minOccurs="0"/>
                     <element name="deltaDiskFormat" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0"/>
                     <element name="digestEnabled" type="xsd:boolean" minOccurs="0"/>
                     <element name="grainSize" type="xsd:int" minOccurs="0"/>
                     <element name="keyId" type="vim25:CryptoKeyId" minOccurs="0"/>
                  </sequence>
               </extension>
            </complexContent>
         </complexType>

Data Object - VirtualDiskSeSparseBackingInfo(vim.vm.device.VirtualDisk.SeSparseBackingInfo)

Data Object Description