Snapservice.TargetEntities

The Snapservice.TargetEntities schema contains properties specifying the target entities to be protected. The initial release will only support virtual machines.

This schema was added in vSphere API 8.0.3.0.

JSON Example

{
    "vm_name_patterns": [
        "string"
    ],
    "vms": [
        "string"
    ]
}

array of string

vm_name_patterns

Optional

One or more match patterns for virtual machines to be protected.

Uses standard POSIX Shell globbing pattern. See also, the POSIX Shell language: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_13_01

This property was added in vSphere API 8.0.3.0.

If missing or null, Snapservice.TargetEntities.vms must be specified.

array of string

vms

Optional

List of virtual machines to be protected.

This property was added in vSphere API 8.0.3.0.

If missing or null, the virtual machines to be protected will be determined based on the Snapservice.TargetEntities.vm_name_patterns.

When clients pass a value of this schema as a parameter, the property must contain identifiers for the resource type: VirtualMachine. When operations return a value of this schema as a response, the property will contain identifiers for the resource type: VirtualMachine.