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Chapter 12 vSphere Platform Extensions Reference
VMWProviderVdc
AVMWProviderVdcobjectrepresentsaprovidervDC.
Content-Type application/vnd.vmware.admin.vmwprovidervdc+xml
Object href prototype API‐URL/admin/extension/providervdc/id
Schema
Name Min Max Type Description
name 11 xs:string Commonobjectnameattribute
anyattributename 0 n any Includestype,href,XMLNamespace
Identifiers
status 0 1 xs:int ThecreationstatusoftheProviderVdc:
‐1– Creationfailed
0– Notready
1– Ready
2– Unknown
3 – Unrecognized
Description 0 1 xs:string Optionaldescription
Tasks 0 1 TasksInProgressType Read‐onlycontainerforTaskelements.Each
elementinthecontainerrepresentsa
queued,running,orrecentlycompletedTask
ownedbythisorganization.
ComputeCapacity 0 1 RootComputeCapacityType Definesthecomputecapacityavailablein
thisprovidervDC
StorageCapacity 0 1 ProviderVdcCapacityType Definesthestoragecapacityavailableinthis
providervDC
AvailableNetworks 0 1 AvailableNetworksType Read‐onlycontainerforNetworkelements
thatreferenceexternalnetworkscontained
bytheprovidervDC
Vdcs 01 VdcsType Read‐onlycontainerforreferencestoVdc
objectsthatareprovisionedfromthis
providervDC.
IsEnabled 0 1 xs:boolean TrueifthisprovidervDCisenabled
NetworkPoolReferences 0 1 NetworkPoolReferencesType ContainerforNetworkPoolReference
elements
DataStoreRefs 1 1 VimObjectRefsType ContainerforVimObjectRefelementsof
typeDATASTORE
ResourcePoolRef 1 1 VimObjectRefType Referencetotheresourcepoolbackingthis
providervDC(VimObjectRef
elementof
typeRESOURCE_POOL)
VimServer 11 ReferenceType ReferencetothevCenterserverhostingthe
datastorescontainedinDataStoreRefsand
theresourcepoolcontainedin
ResourcePoolRef
HostReferences 0 1 HostsType Read‐onlycontainerforHostobjects