Datastore Get Capability

Capabilities of this datastore.

Request

URI

GET

https://{vcenter-host}/sdk/vim25/{release}/Datastore/{moId}/capability

COPY

Path Parameters

string

moId

Required

The unique identifier for the managed object to which the property attaches; the serialized managed object reference for a request has the form moType/moId, in this case Datastore/{moId}.

string

release

Required

The vSphere release schema. The current specification covers vSphere 8.0.3.0 APIs.

Authentication

This operation uses the following authentication methods.

Session

Responses

200

Returns DatastoreCapability of type(s) application/json

This response body class contains all of the following: DataObject

{
    "_typeName": "string",
    "directoryHierarchySupported": false,
    "rawDiskMappingsSupported": false,
    "perFileThinProvisioningSupported": false,
    "storageIORMSupported": false,
    "nativeSnapshotSupported": false,
    "topLevelDirectoryCreateSupported": false,
    "seSparseSupported": false,
    "vmfsSparseSupported": false,
    "vsanSparseSupported": false,
    "upitSupported": false,
    "vmdkExpandSupported": false,
    "clusteredVmdkSupported": false
}

boolean

directoryHierarchySupported

Required

Indicates whether or not directories can be created on this datastore.

boolean

rawDiskMappingsSupported

Required

Indicates whether or not raw disk mappings can be created on this datastore.

boolean

perFileThinProvisioningSupported

Required

Indicates whether or not the datastore supports thin provisioning on a per file basis.

When thin provisioning is used, backing storage is lazily allocated.

This is supported by VMFS3. VMFS2 always allocates storage eagerly. Thus, this value is false for VMFS2. Most NAS systems always use thin provisioning. They do not support configuring this on a per file basis, so for NAS systems this value is also false.

boolean

storageIORMSupported

Required

Deprecated as of vSphere8.0 U3, and there is no replacement for it.

Indicates whether the datastore supports Storage I/O Resource Management.

boolean

nativeSnapshotSupported

Required

Indicates whether the datastore supports native snapshot feature which is based on Copy-On-Write.

boolean

topLevelDirectoryCreateSupported

Optional

Indicates whether the datastore supports traditional top-level directory creation.