VirtualDiskSeSparseBackingOption

VirtualDiskSeSparseBackingOption

Backing options for virtual disks that use the space efficient sparse format.

Space for Flex-SE disks is allocated on demand and optimizations are applied to achieve additional space savings.

AllOf

This class requires all of the following:

VirtualDeviceFileBackingOption

JSON Example

{
    "_typeName": "string",
    "type": "string",
    "fileNameExtensions": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "valueIsReadonly": false,
        "choiceInfo": [
            {
                "_typeName": "string",
                "label": "string",
                "summary": "string",
                "key": "string"
            }
        ],
        "defaultIndex": 0
    },
    "diskMode": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "valueIsReadonly": false,
        "choiceInfo": [
            {
                "_typeName": "string",
                "label": "string",
                "summary": "string",
                "key": "string"
            }
        ],
        "defaultIndex": 0
    },
    "writeThrough": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "valueIsReadonly": false,
        "supported": false,
        "defaultValue": false
    },
    "growable": false,
    "hotGrowable": false,
    "uuid": false,
    "deltaDiskFormatsSupported": [
        {
            "_typeName": "string",
            "datastoreType": "string",
            "deltaDiskFormat": {
                "_typeName": "string",
                "valueIsReadonly": false,
                "choiceInfo": [
                    {
                        "_typeName": "string",
                        "label": "string",
                        "summary": "string",
                        "key": "string"
                    }
                ],
                "defaultIndex": 0
            }
        }
    ],
    "virtualDiskFormat": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "valueIsReadonly": false,
        "choiceInfo": [
            {
                "_typeName": "string",
                "label": "string",
                "summary": "string",
                "key": "string"
            }
        ],
        "defaultIndex": 0
    }
}

diskMode

Required

The disk mode.

Valid disk modes are:

• persistent
• independent_persistent
• independent_nonpersistent

See also VirtualDiskModeEnum.

writeThrough

Required

Flag to indicate whether or not the host supports allowing the client to select "writethrough" as a mode for virtual disks.

Typically, this is available only for VMware Server Linux hosts.

boolean

growable

Required

Indicates whether or not this disk backing can be extended to larger sizes through a reconfigure operation.

If set to true, reconfiguring this virtual disk with a capacityInKB value greater than its current value will grow the disk to the newly specified size.

boolean

hotGrowable

Required

Indicates whether or not this disk backing can be extended to larger sizes through a reconfigure operation while the virtual machine is powered on.

If set to true, reconfiguring this virtual disk with a capacityInKB value greater than its current value will grow the disk to the newly specified size while the virtual machine is powered on.

boolean

uuid

Required

Flag to indicate whether this backing supports disk UUID property.

array of VirtualDiskDeltaDiskFormatsSupported

deltaDiskFormatsSupported

Required

Delta disk formats supported for each datastore type.

virtualDiskFormat

Optional

Virtual disk format.

See DatastoreSectorFormatEnum for the list of supported types.

Since: vSphere API Release 9.0.0.0

Property Of

ArrayOfVirtualDiskSeSparseBackingOption