Returns the inventory path for the specified managed entity, for example,

Folder

,

Datacenter

,

HostSystem

,

VirtualMachine

,

ComputeResource

, ClusterComputeResource, or

ResourcePool

. The resulting inventory path can later be passed to the SOAP operation

FindByInventory

path to retrieve the

ManagedObjectReference

for a managed entity (from which a view can be created).