vcenter datastore: info
The
info structure contains information about a datastore.Representation:
{
"accessible" : true,
"multiple_host_access" : true,
"name" : "string",
"type" : "VMFS",
"free_space" : 1,
"thin_provisioning_supported" : true
}
"accessible" : true,
"multiple_host_access" : true,
"name" : "string",
"type" : "VMFS",
"free_space" : 1,
"thin_provisioning_supported" : true
}
Attributes:
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Required | ||
| name | string | Name of the datastore. |
| type | string | Type (VMFS, NFS, NFS41, CIFS, VSAN, VFFS, VVOL) of the datastore. Defines the supported types of vCenter datastores. Value is one of: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). |
| accessible | boolean | Whether or not this datastore is accessible. |
| multiple_host_access | boolean | Whether or not ore than one host in the datacenter has been configured with access to the datastore. |
| thin_provisioning_supported | boolean | Whether or not the datastore supports thin provisioning on a per file basis. When thin provisioning is used, backing storage is lazily allocated. |
| Optional | ||
| free_space | long | Available space of this datastore, in bytes. The server periodically updates this value. Optional. This field will be unset if the available space of this datastore is not known. |