Virtual Infrastructure Container View APIs

• Virtual Infrastructure

The ContainerView managed object provides a means of monitoring the contents of a single container and, optionally, other containers.

You can use a ContainerView with a PropertyCollector method to retrieve data or receive notification of changes. For information about using views with the PropertyCollector, see the description of ViewManager.

When you invoke the CreateContainerView method, you specify a managed object instance that provides the starting point for object selection. You can use the following managed objects as the basis of a container view:

• Folder
• Datacenter
• ComputeResource
• ResourcePool
• HostSystem

Once you have created the view, the view list always represents the current configuration of the virtual environment and reflects any subsequent changes that occur.

Operations

POST

Container View Destroy View

Destroy this view.

GET

Container View Get Container

The Folder, Datacenter, ComputeResource, ResourcePool, or HostSystem instance that provides the objects that the view presents.

GET

Container View Get Recursive

Whether to include only the immediate children of the container instance, or to include additional objects by following the paths beyond the immediate children.

GET

Container View Get Type

An optional list of types to be applied to the set of objects in the view.

GET

Container View Get View

The list of references to objects mapped by this view.