VirtualMachine Management
Objects and Methods
Virtual machines
are the central elements of your vSphere environment.
You create a virtual machine by calling
Folder.CreateVM_Task
, and
configure the virtual machine by using properties and methods of the
VirtualMachine
managed object.
Most of the properties point to data objects that the methods use as input.
Figure 1
shows some of the properties and methods.
Client applications commonly access and
manipulate the following virtual machine related objects:
- VirtualMachine– Managed object used for most virtual machine manipulation. Includes methods that create templates, clones, or snapshots of a virtual machine, perform power operations and guest OS management, and install VMware Tools.
- VirtualMachineConfigInfo– Data object which allows you to retrieve configuration-specific information from a virtual machine.
- VirtualMachineCloneSpec– Data object which allows you to specify virtual machine properties for a clone operation. Argument toVirtualMachine.CloneVM_Task.VirtualMachine Managed Object with Some Properties and Methods
