Vcenter Vm Hardware Boot Device APIs

The Vcenter Vm Hardware Boot Device resource provides operations for configuring the device order used when booting a virtual machine.

The boot order may be specified using a mixture of device classes and device instances, chosen from among the following:

Vcenter Vm Hardware Boot Device Type.CDROM: Boot from a virtual CD-ROM drive; the device instance(s) will be chosen by the BIOS subsystem.
Vcenter Vm Hardware Boot Device Type.FLOPPY: Boot from a virtual floppy drive; the device instance(s) will be chosen by the BIOS subsystem.
Vcenter Vm Hardware Boot Device Type.DISK: Boot from a virtual disk device; the device instance is specified explicitly in Vcenter Vm Hardware Boot Device Entry.disks list, and multiple instances may be specified in the list.
Vcenter Vm Hardware Boot Device Type.ETHERNET: Boot from a virtual Ethernet adapter; the device instance is specified explicitly as Vcenter Vm Hardware Boot Device Entry.nic, and multiple adapters may be specified in the boot order list.

Operations