VirtualMachineFileLayoutExFileType_enum
File-type constants.
Possible values:
config: Config (vmx) file.extendedConfig: Extended config (vmxf) file.diskDescriptor: Disk descriptor (vmdk) file.diskExtent: Disk extent (-flat/-delta/-s/-rdm/-rdmp.vmdk) file.digestDescriptor: Disk digest descriptor file.digestExtent: Disk digest extent file.diskReplicationState: Host based replicated disk persistent state (psf) file.log: Log (log) file.stat: Virtual machine statistics (stat) file.namespaceData: Namespace data file.dataSetsDiskModeStore: DataSets disk mode store (dsd) file.Since: vSphere API Release 8.0.0.0
dataSetsVmModeStore: DataSets vm mode store (dsv) file.Since: vSphere API Release 8.0.0.0
nvram: Non-volatile RAM (nvram) file.snapshotData: Snapshot data (vmsn) file.snapshotMemory: Snapshot memory (vmem) file.snapshotList: Snapshot metadata (vmsd) file.snapshotManifestList: Snapshot manifest metadata (-aux.xml) file.This file is still being created but is no longer necessary since the manifest metadata is now available in the snapshot metadata (vmsd) file in vSphere 5.0. This type will be deprecated when vSphere 4.1 is no longer supported.
suspend: Suspend (vmss) file.suspendMemory: Suspend (vmem) file.swap: Swap (vswp) file.uwswap: File generated by VMware ESX kernel for a running virtual machine.core: Core (core) file.screenshot: Screenshot file.ftMetadata: Fault Tolerance metadata file.guestCustomization: Guest image customization file.