Data Object Description

DVPortgroupConfigInfo

DistributedVirtualPortgroup

Properties

Name	Type	Description
autoExpand*	xsd:boolean	If set to true, this property ignores the limit on the number of ports in the portgroup. When a Virtual Machine/Host tries to connect to the portgroup and there are no free ports available in the portgroup, new ports will be automatically added to the portgroup. The flag is currently supported only for static portgroups. When this property is set to true, the portgroup becomes a potential candidate for auto-shrink. Once the portgroup has auto-expanded then its disconnected ports are likely to be deleted automatically, as a part of auto-shrink step, if there are more than certain number of free ports. If the portgroup never auto-expanded, then it will never lose any free ports. *Since* vSphere API 5.0
backingType*	xsd:string	Backing type of portgroup. See DistributedVirtualPortgroup.DistributedVirtualPortgroupBackingType for possible values. The default value is "standard" *Since* vSphere API 7.0
configVersion*	xsd:string	Configuration version number.
defaultPortConfig*	DVPortSetting	Common network setting for all the ports in the portgroup.
description*	xsd:string	Description of the portgroup.
distributedVirtualSwitch*	ManagedObjectReference to a DistributedVirtualSwitch	Distributed virtual switch that the portgroup is defined on. This property should always be set unless the user's setting does not have System.Read privilege on the object referred to by this property.
key	xsd:string	Key of the portgroup.
logicalSwitchUuid*	xsd:string	The logical switch UUID, which is used by NSX portgroup *Since* vSphere API 7.0
name	xsd:string	Name of the portgroup.
numPorts	xsd:int	Number of ports in the portgroup.
policy	DVPortgroupPolicy	Portgroup policy.
portNameFormat*	xsd:string	If set, a name will be automatically generated based on this format string for a port when it is created in or moved into the portgroup. The format string can contain meta tags that will be resolved to the corresponding values in generating a name, if applicable for the port at the time of name generation. To insert a meta tag in the format string, enclose the names defined as meta tag names inside angle brackets. See DistributedVirtualPortgroupMetaTagName for a list of currently available meta tags. For example, "redNetwork-<portIndex>" and "<dvsName>-pnic<portIndex>" result in generated port names like "redNetwork-2" and "switch-pnic3". If a meta tag is recognized, but there is no applicable value, the tag will be expanded to empty string. If an arbitrary name appears inside a "<>" pair and is not recognized as one of the defined meta tags, the substring is treated as-is and appear unchanged in the generated name. To prevent a meta tag from being expanded, prefix the meta tag with a '\' (backslash). For example, the format string "abc\<portIndex>def" results in the generated port name "abc<portIndex>def".
scope*	ManagedObjectReference[] to a ManagedEntity[]	Deprecated. as of vSphere API 5.5 Eligible entities that can connect to the portgroup. If unset, there is no restriction on which entity can connect to the portgroup. If set, only the entities in the specified list or their child entities are allowed to connect to the portgroup. If scopes are defined at both port and portgroup level, they are taken as an "AND" relationship. If such a relationship doesn't make sense, the reconfigure operation will raise an exception.
segmentId*	xsd:string	The segment ID of logical switch *Since* vSphere API 7.0
transportZoneName*	xsd:string	The name of transport zone to be associated with a NSX portgroup. *Since* vSphere API 7.0
transportZoneUuid*	xsd:string	The UUID of transport zone to be associated with a NSX portgroup. *Since* vSphere API 7.0
type	xsd:string	Type of portgroup. See DistributedVirtualPortgroup.DistributedVirtualPortgroupPortgroupType for possible values.
uplink*	xsd:boolean	Indicates whether the portgroup is an uplink portroup. *Since* vSphere API 6.5
vendorSpecificConfig*	DistributedVirtualSwitchKeyedOpaqueBlob[]	Opaque binary blob that stores vendor specific configuration.
vmVnicNetworkResourcePoolKey*	xsd:string	The key of virtual NIC network resource pool to be associated with a portgroup. The default value for this property is unset, indicating that this portgroup is not associated with any virtual NIC network resource pool. To clear the value of this property and revert to unset, set the vmVnicNetworkResourcePoolKey to "-1" in an update operation. *Since* vSphere API 6.0
Properties inherited from DynamicData
None

Name

Type

Description

autoExpand*

xsd:boolean

If set to true, this property ignores the limit on the number of ports in the portgroup. When a Virtual Machine/Host tries to connect to the portgroup and there are no free ports available in the portgroup, new ports will be automatically added to the portgroup. The flag is currently supported only for static portgroups.

When this property is set to true, the portgroup becomes a potential candidate for auto-shrink. Once the portgroup has auto-expanded then its disconnected ports are likely to be deleted automatically, as a part of auto-shrink step, if there are more than certain number of free ports. If the portgroup never auto-expanded, then it will never lose any free ports.

Since vSphere API 5.0

backingType*

xsd:string

Backing type of portgroup. See DistributedVirtualPortgroup.DistributedVirtualPortgroupBackingType for possible values. The default value is "standard"

Since vSphere API 7.0

configVersion*

xsd:string

Configuration version number.

defaultPortConfig*

DVPortSetting

Common network setting for all the ports in the portgroup.

description*

xsd:string

Description of the portgroup.

distributedVirtualSwitch*

ManagedObjectReference
to a DistributedVirtualSwitch

Distributed virtual switch that the portgroup is defined on. This property should always be set unless the user's setting does not have System.Read privilege on the object referred to by this property.

key

xsd:string

Key of the portgroup.

logicalSwitchUuid*

xsd:string

The logical switch UUID, which is used by NSX portgroup

Since vSphere API 7.0

name

xsd:string

Name of the portgroup.

numPorts

xsd:int

Number of ports in the portgroup.

policy

DVPortgroupPolicy

Portgroup policy.

portNameFormat*

xsd:string

If set, a name will be automatically generated based on this format string for a port when it is created in or moved into the portgroup. The format string can contain meta tags that will be resolved to the corresponding values in generating a name, if applicable for the port at the time of name generation.

To insert a meta tag in the format string, enclose the names defined as meta tag names inside angle brackets. See DistributedVirtualPortgroupMetaTagName for a list of currently available meta tags. For example, "redNetwork-<portIndex>" and "<dvsName>-pnic<portIndex>" result in generated port names like "redNetwork-2" and "switch-pnic3".

If a meta tag is recognized, but there is no applicable value, the tag will be expanded to empty string. If an arbitrary name appears inside a "<>" pair and is not recognized as one of the defined meta tags, the substring is treated as-is and appear unchanged in the generated name.

To prevent a meta tag from being expanded, prefix the meta tag with a '\' (backslash). For example, the format string "abc\<portIndex>def" results in the generated port name "abc<portIndex>def".

scope*

ManagedObjectReference[]
to a ManagedEntity[]

Deprecated. as of vSphere API 5.5

Eligible entities that can connect to the portgroup. If unset, there is no restriction on which entity can connect to the portgroup. If set, only the entities in the specified list or their child entities are allowed to connect to the portgroup. If scopes are defined at both port and portgroup level, they are taken as an "AND" relationship. If such a relationship doesn't make sense, the reconfigure operation will raise an exception.

segmentId*

xsd:string

The segment ID of logical switch

Since vSphere API 7.0

transportZoneName*

xsd:string

The name of transport zone to be associated with a NSX portgroup.

Since vSphere API 7.0

transportZoneUuid*

xsd:string

The UUID of transport zone to be associated with a NSX portgroup.

Since vSphere API 7.0

type

xsd:string

Type of portgroup. See DistributedVirtualPortgroup.DistributedVirtualPortgroupPortgroupType for possible values.

uplink*

xsd:boolean

Indicates whether the portgroup is an uplink portroup.

Since vSphere API 6.5

vendorSpecificConfig*

DistributedVirtualSwitchKeyedOpaqueBlob[]

Opaque binary blob that stores vendor specific configuration.

vmVnicNetworkResourcePoolKey*

xsd:string

The key of virtual NIC network resource pool to be associated with a portgroup. The default value for this property is unset, indicating that this portgroup is not associated with any virtual NIC network resource pool. To clear the value of this property and revert to unset, set the vmVnicNetworkResourcePoolKey to "-1" in an update operation.

Since vSphere API 6.0

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="DVPortgroupConfigInfo">
            <complexContent>
               <extension base="vim25:DynamicData">
                  <sequence>
                     <element name="key" type="xsd:string"/>
                     <element name="name" type="xsd:string"/>
                     <element name="numPorts" type="xsd:int"/>
                     <element name="distributedVirtualSwitch" type="vim25:ManagedObjectReference" minOccurs="0"/>
                     <element name="defaultPortConfig" type="vim25:DVPortSetting" minOccurs="0"/>
                     <element name="description" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0"/>
                     <element name="type" type="xsd:string"/>
                     <element name="backingType" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0"/>
                     <element name="policy" type="vim25:DVPortgroupPolicy"/>
                     <element name="portNameFormat" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0"/>
                     <element name="scope" type="vim25:ManagedObjectReference" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
                     <element name="vendorSpecificConfig" type="vim25:DistributedVirtualSwitchKeyedOpaqueBlob" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
                     <element name="configVersion" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0"/>
                     <element name="autoExpand" type="xsd:boolean" minOccurs="0"/>
                     <element name="vmVnicNetworkResourcePoolKey" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0"/>
                     <element name="uplink" type="xsd:boolean" minOccurs="0"/>
                     <element name="transportZoneUuid" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0"/>
                     <element name="transportZoneName" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0"/>
                     <element name="logicalSwitchUuid" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0"/>
                     <element name="segmentId" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0"/>
                  </sequence>
               </extension>
            </complexContent>
         </complexType>

Data Object - DVPortgroupConfigInfo(vim.dvs.DistributedVirtualPortgroup.ConfigInfo)

Data Object Description