Datastore_Summary

The Datastore.Summary structure contains commonly used information about a datastore.

JSON Example

{
    "datastore": "string",
    "name": "string",
    "type": "string",
    "free_space": 0,
    "capacity": 0
}

string

datastore

Required

Identifier of the datastore. When clients pass a value of this structure as a parameter, the field must be an identifier for the resource type: Datastore. When operations return a value of this structure as a result, the field will be an identifier for the resource type: Datastore.

string

name

Required

Name of the datastore.

Datastore_Type

type

Required

The Datastore.Type enumerated type defines the supported types of vCenter datastores.
VMFS : VMware File System (ESX Server only).
NFS : Network file system v3 (linux & esx servers only).
NFS41 : Network file system v4.1 (linux & esx servers only).
CIFS : Common Internet File System.
VSAN : Virtual SAN (ESX Server only).
VFFS : Flash Read Cache (ESX Server only).
VVOL : vSphere Virtual Volume (ESX Server only).

integer As int64

free_space

Optional

Available space of this datastore, in bytes. The server periodically updates this value.

This field will be unset if the available space of this datastore is not known.

integer As int64

capacity

Optional

Capacity of this datastore, in bytes. The server periodically updates this value.

This field will be unset if the capacity of this datastore is not known.