VMware vSphere SDKs and Tools 8.0

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Content Library Storage

When you create a local library, you can store its contents on a datastore managed by the
vCenter Server
 instance or on a remote file system.
Depending on the type of storage that you have, you can use Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) or Network File System (NFS) for storing content on a datastore.
For storing content on a remote file system, you can enter the path to the NFS storage that is mounted on the Linux file system of the
vCenter Server
 instance. For example, you can use the following URI formats:
nfs://<server>/<path>?version=4
and
nfs://<server>/<path>
. If you have a
vCenter Server
 instance that runs on a Windows machine, you can specify the Server Massage Block (SMB) URI to the Windows shared folders that store the library content. For example, you can use the following URI format:
smb://<unc-server>/<path>
.
Java
This example is based on the code in the
LibraryCrud.java
 sample file and shows how to store library content on a datastore.
For more information about storing the contents of a local library, see Content Library Storage.
For a complete and up-to-date version of the Java sample code, see the
vsphere-automation-sdk-java
 VMware repository at GitHub. 
...

// Create a StorageBacking instance for storing the library content on a datastore. 

     StorageBacking libraryBacking = new StorageBacking();
     libraryBacking.setType(Type.DATASTORE);

/* 
 * Pass the value of the datastore 
ManagedObjectReference
. 
 * See the 
vSphere Web Services SDK Programming Guide
 
 * and the vSphere Web Services SDK samples. In addition, the 
 vSphere
						Automation SDK for Java
 provides  
 * the 
VimUtil
 utility class in the 
vmware.samples.vim.helpers
 package. 
 * You can use the utility to retrieve the 
ManagedObjectReference

 * of the datastore entity.
 */
     libraryBacking.setDatastoreId("datastore-123");

// Create a LibraryModel that represents a local library backed on a datastore.

      LibraryModel libraryModel = new LibraryModel();
      libraryModel.setName("AcmeLibrary");
      libraryModel.setDescription("Local library backed by VC datastore");
      libraryModel.setType(LibraryType.LOCAL);
      libraryModel.setStorageBackings(Collections.singletonList(libraryBacking));
Python
This example is based on the code in the
library_crud.py
 sample file and shows how to store library content on a datastore.
For more information about storing the contents of a local library, see Content Library Storage.
For a complete and up-to-date version of the sample code, see the
vsphere-automation-sdk-python
 VMware repository at GitHub. 
...

# Create a StorageBacking instance of datastore type.
library_backing = library_client.StorageBacking()
library_backing.type = library_client.StorageBacking.Type.DATASTORE

# Pass the value of the datastore managed object reference. 
# The 

						vSphere Automation SDK for Python
 contains
# the GetDatastoreByName class, which sample resource is located in the 
# 
/client/samples/src/com/vmware/vcloud/suite/sample/vim/helpers/
 directory. 
# You can use the utility to retrieve the managed object reference of the datastore entity.
library_backing.datastore_id = ‘datastore-123’

# Create a LibraryModel that represents a local library backed on a datastore.
library_model = content_client.LibraryModel()
library_model.name = ‘AcmeLibrary’
library_model.storage_backings = [library_backing]

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