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Data Object - VirtualMachineFileLayoutEx(vim.vm.FileLayoutEx)

Property of

VirtualMachine

Extends

DynamicData

See also

VirtualMachineFileLayoutExDiskLayout, VirtualMachineFileLayoutExFileInfo, VirtualMachineFileLayoutExSnapshotLayout

Since

vSphere API Release 4.0

Data Object Description

Detailed description of files that make up a virtual machine on disk. The file layout is broken into 4 major sections:

• Configuration: Files stored in the configuration directory
• Log: Files stored in the log directory
• Disk: Files stored relative to a disk configuration file
• Snapshot: Stored in the snapshot directory

Often the same directory is used for configuration, log, disk and snapshots.

Properties

Name	Type	Description
disk*	VirtualMachineFileLayoutExDiskLayout[]	Layout of each virtual disk attached to the virtual machine. For a virtual machine with snaphots, this property gives only those disks that are attached to it at the current point of running.
file*	VirtualMachineFileLayoutExFileInfo[]	Information about all the files that constitute the virtual machine including configuration files, disks, swap file, suspend file, log files, core files, memory file etc. VirtualMachineFileLayoutExFileType lists the different file-types that make a virtual machine.
snapshot*	VirtualMachineFileLayoutExSnapshotLayout[]	Layout of each snapshot of the virtual machine.
timestamp	xsd:dateTime	Time when values in this structure were last updated.
Properties inherited from DynamicData
None

*Need not be set
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