vSAN Management API

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Data Object - VsanObjectIdentity(vim.cluster.VsanObjectIdentity)

Property of

VsanObjectIdentityAndHealth

Extends

DynamicData

See also

VirtualMachine

Since

vSphere API 5.5

Data Object Description

Contains various information about the identity of a single vSAN object, including which type it is and any related objects, e.g. a VM.

Properties

Name	Type	Description
description*	xsd:string	Description
type	xsd:string	Can be one of: 'vmswap', 'vdisk', 'namespace', 'vmem', 'stats', 'other', 'iscsiHome', 'iscsiLun', 'iscsiTarget' and 'fileShare'.
uuid	xsd:string	vSAN UUID of the object
vm*	ManagedObjectReference to a VirtualMachine	Reference to VM this object belongs to. If the API was executed against a host (even if proxied through vCenter) the VM reference will use the MoRef of the host, not that of vCenter. The vmInstanceUuid should be used instead to match to the vCenter MoRef in such cases.
vmInstanceUuid*	xsd:string	Instance UUID of the VM this object belongs to
vmNsObjectUuid*	xsd:string	Name space object UUID of the VM this object belongs to
Properties inherited from DynamicData
None

*Need not be set
Show WSDL type definition

<complexType xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vsan="urn:vsan" name="VsanObjectIdentity"> <complexContent> <extension base="vsan:DynamicData"> <sequence> <element name="uuid" type="xsd:string"/> <element name="type" type="xsd:string"/> <element name="vmInstanceUuid" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0"/> <element name="vmNsObjectUuid" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0"/> <element name="vm" type="vsan:ManagedObjectReference" minOccurs="0"/> <element name="description" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0"/> </sequence> </extension> </complexContent> </complexType>

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