VirtualMachineFileLayout

Deprecated as of vSphere API 4.0, use VirtualMachineFileLayoutEx instead.

Describes the set of files that makes up a virtual machine on disk.

The file layout is broken into 4 major sections:

Configuration: Files stored in the configuration directory
Log: Files stored in the log directory
Disk: Files stored relative to a disk configuration file
Snapshot: Stored in the snapshot directory

Often the same directory is used for configuration, log, disk and snapshots.

AllOf

This class requires all of the following:

DataObject

JSON Example

{
    "_typeName": "string",
    "configFile": [
        "string"
    ],
    "logFile": [
        "string"
    ],
    "disk": [
        {
            "_typeName": "string",
            "key": 0,
            "diskFile": [
                "string"
            ]
        }
    ],
    "snapshot": [
        {
            "_typeName": "string",
            "key": {
                "_typeName": "string",
                "type": "string",
                "value": "string"
            },
            "snapshotFile": [
                "string"
            ]
        }
    ],
    "swapFile": "string"
}

array of string

configFile

Optional

A list of files that makes up the configuration of the virtual machine (excluding the .vmx file, since that file is represented in the FileInfo).

These are relative paths from the configuration directory. A slash is always used as a separator. This list will typically include the NVRAM file, but could also include other meta-data files.

array of string

logFile

Optional

A list of files stored in the virtual machine's log directory.

These are relative paths from the logDirectory. A slash is always used as a separator.

array of VirtualMachineFileLayoutDiskLayout

disk

Optional

Files making up each virtual disk.

array of VirtualMachineFileLayoutSnapshotLayout

snapshot

Optional