Capability
A particular product may or may not support certain features.
This data object indicates whether or not a service instance implements these features. This data object type indicates the circumstances under which an operation throws a NotSupported fault.
Support for some features is indicated by the presence or absence of the manager object from the service instance. For example, the AlarmManager manager object indicates collecting alarms is supported. Other features indicate whether or not a given operation on an object throws a NotSupported fault.
Some capabilities depend on the host or virtual machine version. These are specified by using the vim.host.Capability and vim.vm.Capability objects.
{
"_typeName": "string",
"provisioningSupported": false,
"multiHostSupported": false,
"userShellAccessSupported": false,
"supportedEVCMode": [
{
"_typeName": "string",
"label": "string",
"summary": "string",
"key": "string",
"guaranteedCPUFeatures": [
{
"_typeName": "string",
"level": 0,
"vendor": "string",
"eax": "string",
"ebx": "string",
"ecx": "string",
"edx": "string"
}
],
"featureCapability": [
{
"_typeName": "string",
"key": "string",
"featureName": "string",
"value": "string"
}
],
"featureMask": [
{
"_typeName": "string",
"key": "string",
"featureName": "string",
"value": "string"
}
],
"featureRequirement": [
{
"_typeName": "string",
"key": "string",
"featureName": "string",
"value": "string"
}
],
"vendor": "string",
"track": [
"string"
],
"vendorTier": 0
}
],
"supportedEVCGraphicsMode": [
{
"_typeName": "string",
"label": "string",
"summary": "string",
"key": "string",
"mask": [
{
"_typeName": "string",
"key": "string",
"featureName": "string",
"value": "string"
}
],
"capability": [
{
"_typeName": "string",
"key": "string",
"featureName": "string",
"value": "string"
}
],
"requirement": [
{
"_typeName": "string",
"key": "string",
"featureName": "string",
"value": "string"
}
]
}
],
"networkBackupAndRestoreSupported": false,
"ftDrsWithoutEvcSupported": false,
"hciWorkflowSupported": false,
"computePolicyVersion": 0,
"clusterPlacementSupported": false,
"lifecycleManagementSupported": false,
"hostSeedingSupported": false,
"scalableSharesSupported": false,
"hadcsSupported": false,
"configMgmtSupported": false
}
Indicates whether or not the service instance supports provisioning.
For example, the CloneVM operation.
Indicates whether or not the service instance supports multiple hosts.
Flag indicating whether host user accounts should have the option to be granted shell access
All supported Enhanced VMotion Compatibility Graphics modes.
Since: vSphere API Release 7.0.1.0
Indicates whether network backup and restore feature is supported.
Is DRS supported for Fault Tolerance VMs without enabling EVC.
Specifies if the workflow for setting up a HCI cluster is supported.
Specifies the supported compute policy version.
clusterPlacementSupported
Specifies if lifecycle management of a Cluster is supported.
Specifies if host seeding for a cluster is supported.
Since: vSphere API Release 7.0.2.0
Specifies if scalable shares for resource pools is supported.
Specifies if highly available distributed clustering service is supported.
Since: vSphere API Release 7.0.1.1
Specifies if desired configuration management platform is supported on the cluster.
Since: vSphere API Release 7.0.3.1