Data Object - VimVsanHostDiskMappingCreationSpec(vim.vsan.host.DiskMappingCreationSpec)

Parameter to
InitializeDiskMappings
Extends
DynamicData
See also
HostScsiDisk, HostSystem
Since
vSphere API 6.0

Data Object Description

Specification for Virtual SAN disk group creation. It is used for semi-automatic disk claim on specific host for Virtual SAN service, both hybrid and all flash disk groups could be created with this specification. It could be used to create new disk group, and append new disks to existing Virtual SAN disk group.

Properties

Name Type Description
cacheDisks*HostScsiDisk[]

Disk(s) to be used as cache tier of disk group. If the specification is used to create new disk group, disk(s) set to this field must not be used by Virtual SAN, and this field is required; if the specification is used to append disk(s) to existing disk group, this field is optional, and cannot accept more than one disk, and disk specified here should be the cache tier of existing disk group.
capacityDisksHostScsiDisk[]

Disk(s) to be used as capacity tier of disk group. All disk(s) specified to this field, must not be used by Virtual SAN.
creationTypexsd:string

Disk group type to create. hybrid: consumes SSD as cache tier, and HDD as capacity tier; allFlash: uses SSD for both cache tier and capacity tier. Virtual SAN optimizes the on-disk format on allFlash disk group, to support more features, such as deduplication and compression, etc.
hostManagedObjectReference
to a HostSystem

Target host to create Virtual SAN disk group.
Properties inherited from DynamicData
None
*Need not be set
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