VMware Storage Policy API


Enum - VirtualMachineFileLayoutExFileType(vim.vm.FileLayoutEx.FileType)

Since
vSphere API Release 4.0


Enum Description

File-type constants.

Enum Constants

NameDescription
config Config (vmx) file.
core Core (core) file.
dataSetsDiskModeStore DataSets disk mode store (dsd) file.

Since vSphere API Release 8.0.0.0
dataSetsVmModeStore DataSets vm mode store (dsv) file.

Since vSphere API Release 8.0.0.0
digestDescriptor Disk digest descriptor file.

Since vSphere API Release 5.0
digestExtent Disk digest extent file.

Since vSphere API Release 5.0
diskDescriptor Disk descriptor (vmdk) file.
diskExtent Disk extent (-flat/-delta/-s/-rdm/-rdmp.vmdk) file.
diskReplicationState Host based replicated disk persistent state (psf) file.

Since vSphere API Release 5.0
extendedConfig Extended config (vmxf) file.
ftMetadata Fault Tolerance metadata file.

Since vSphere API Release 6.0
guestCustomization Guest image customization file.

Since vSphere API Release 6.0
log Log (log) file.
namespaceData Namespace data file.

Since vSphere API Release 5.1
nvram Non-volatile RAM (nvram) file.
screenshot Screenshot file.
snapshotData Snapshot data (vmsn) file.
snapshotList Snapshot metadata (vmsd) file.
snapshotManifestList Snapshot manifest metadata (-aux.xml) file.

This file is still being created but is no longer necessary since the manifest metadata is now available in the snapshot metadata (vmsd) file in vSphere 5.0. This type will be deprecated when vSphere 4.1 is no longer supported.

Since vSphere API Release 5.0
snapshotMemory Snapshot memory (vmem) file.

Since vSphere API Release 6.0
stat Virtual machine statistics (stat) file.
suspend Suspend (vmss) file.
suspendMemory Suspend (vmem) file.

Since vSphere API Release 6.0
swap Swap (vswp) file.
uwswap File generated by VMware ESX kernel for a running virtual machine.

Since vSphere API Release 5.0

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