deb-python-pyvmomi/docs/vim/vm/device/VirtualDiskOption/SeSparseBackingOption.rst

vim.vm.device.VirtualDiskOption.SeSparseBackingOption

Backing options for virtual disks that use the space efficient sparse format.Space for Flex-SE disks is allocated on demand and optimizations are applied to achieve additional space savings.

extends

vim.vm.device.VirtualDeviceOption.FileBackingOption

since

vSphere API 5.1

Attributes:

diskMode (vim.option.ChoiceOption):

The disk mode. Valid disk modes are:

• persistent
• independent_persistent
• independent_nonpersistent
• See
• VirtualDiskMode

writeThrough (vim.option.BoolOption):

Flag to indicate whether or not the host supports allowing the client to select "writethrough" as a mode for virtual disks. Typically, this is available only for VMware Server Linux hosts.

growable (bool):

Indicates whether or not this disk backing can be extended to larger sizes through a reconfigure operation.If set to true, reconfiguring this virtual disk with a capacityInKB value greater than its current value will grow the disk to the newly specified size.

hotGrowable (bool):

Indicates whether or not this disk backing can be extended to larger sizes through a reconfigure operation while the virtual machine is powered on.If set to true, reconfiguring this virtual disk with a capacityInKB value greater than its current value will grow the disk to the newly specified size while the virtual machine is powered on.

uuid (bool):

Flag to indicate whether this backing supports disk UUID property.

deltaDiskFormatsSupported ([vim.vm.device.VirtualDiskOption.DeltaDiskFormatsSupported]):

Delta disk formats supported for each datastore type.