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Data Object - VirtualDeviceFileBackingInfo(vim.vm.device.VirtualDevice.FileBackingInfo)

Extended by

VirtualCdromIsoBackingInfo, VirtualDiskFlatVer1BackingInfo, VirtualDiskFlatVer2BackingInfo, VirtualDiskLocalPMemBackingInfo, VirtualDiskRawDiskMappingVer1BackingInfo, VirtualDiskSeSparseBackingInfo, VirtualDiskSparseVer1BackingInfo, VirtualDiskSparseVer2BackingInfo, VirtualFloppyImageBackingInfo, VirtualNVDIMMBackingInfo, VirtualParallelPortFileBackingInfo, VirtualSerialPortFileBackingInfo

Extends

VirtualDeviceBackingInfo

See also

Datastore

Since

2.0

Data Object Description

VirtualDeviceFileBackingInfo is a data object type for information about file backing for a device in a virtual machine.

Properties

Name	Type	Description
backingObjectId*	xsd:string	Backing object's durable and unmutable identifier. Each backing object has a unique identifier which is not settable. Since vSphere API Release 5.5
datastore*	ManagedObjectReference to a Datastore	Reference to the datastore managed object where this file is stored. If the file is not located on a datastore, then this reference is null. This is not used for configuration.
fileName	xsd:string	Filename for the host file used in this backing.
Properties inherited from VirtualDeviceBackingInfo
None
Properties inherited from DynamicData
None

*Need not be set
Show WSDL type definition

<complexType xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25" name="VirtualDeviceFileBackingInfo"> <complexContent> <extension base="vim25:VirtualDeviceBackingInfo"> <sequence> <element name="fileName" type="xsd:string"/> <element name="datastore" type="vim25:ManagedObjectReference" minOccurs="0"/> <element name="backingObjectId" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0"/> </sequence> </extension> </complexContent> </complexType>

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