File Manager APIs
This managed object type provides a way to manage and manipulate files and folders on datastores.
The source and the destination names are in the form of a URL or a datastore path.
A URL has the form
scheme://authority/folder/path?dcPath=dcPath&dsName=dsName
where
scheme is
httporhttps.authority specifies the hostname or IP address of the VirtualCenter or ESX server and optionally the port.
dcPath is the inventory path to the Datacenter containing the Datastore.
dsName is the name of the Datastore.
path is a slash-delimited path from the root of the datastore.
A datastore path has the form
[datastore] path
where
datastore is the datastore name.
path is a slash-delimited path from the root of the datastore.
An example datastore path is "[storage] path/to/file.extension". A listing of all the files, disks and folders on a datastore can be obtained from the datastore browser.
See also HostDatastoreBrowser.