VirtualDiskFlatVer1BackingInfo

This data object type contains information about backing a virtual disk by using a virtual disk file on the host, in the flat file format used by GSX Server 2.x.

Flat disks are allocated when created, unlike sparse disks, which grow as needed.

AllOf

This class requires all of the following:

VirtualDeviceFileBackingInfo

JSON Example

{
    "_typeName": "string",
    "fileName": "string",
    "datastore": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "type": "string",
        "value": "string"
    },
    "backingObjectId": "string",
    "diskMode": "string",
    "split": false,
    "writeThrough": false,
    "contentId": "string",
    "parent": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "fileName": "string",
        "datastore": {
            "_typeName": "string",
            "type": "string",
            "value": "string"
        },
        "backingObjectId": "string",
        "diskMode": "string",
        "split": false,
        "writeThrough": false,
        "contentId": "string",
        "parent": "VirtualDiskFlatVer1BackingInfo Object"
    }
}

string

diskMode

Required

The disk persistence mode.

Valid modes are:

See also VirtualDiskModeEnum.

boolean

split

Optional

Flag to indicate the type of virtual disk file: split or monolithic.

If true, the virtual disk is stored in multiple files, each 2GB.

boolean

writeThrough

Optional

Flag to indicate whether writes should go directly to the file system or should be buffered.

string

contentId

Optional

Content ID of the virtual disk file, if available.

A content ID indicates the logical contents of the disk backing and its parents.

This property is only guaranteed to be up to date if this disk backing is not currently being written to by any virtual machine.

The only supported operation is comparing if two content IDs are equal or not. The guarantee provided by the content ID is that if two disk backings have the same content ID and are not currently being written to, then reads issued from the guest operating system to those disk backings will return the same data.

VirtualDiskFlatVer1BackingInfo

parent

Optional

This data object type contains information about backing a virtual disk by using a virtual disk file on the host, in the flat file format used by GSX Server 2.x.

Flat disks are allocated when created, unlike sparse disks, which grow as needed.

Property Of

ArrayOfVirtualDiskFlatVer1BackingInfo

VirtualDiskFlatVer1BackingInfo