1. Types
2. vcenter
3. datastore

## vcenter datastore: summary

The `summary` structure contains commonly used information about a datastore.

### Representations:

- JSON
- XML

{
"capacity": 1,
"datastore": "obj-103",
"free_space": 1,
"name": "string",
"type": "VMFS"
}
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<ns0:Summary xmlns:ns0="http://vmware.com/vcenter/datastore" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<free_space>1</free_space>
<name>string</name>
<capacity>1</capacity>
<type>VMFS</type>
<datastore>obj-103</datastore>
</ns0:Summary>

#### Attributes:

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
Required
datastore | string | Identifier of the datastore. When clients pass a value of this structure as a parameter, the field must be an identifier for the resource type: `Datastore`. When operations return a value of this structure as a result, the field will be an identifier for the resource type: `Datastore`.
name | string | Name of the datastore.
type | string | Type (`VMFS`, `NFS`, `NFS41`, `CIFS`, `VSAN`, `VFFS`, `VVOL`) of the datatore. Defines the supported types of vCenter datastores. Value is one of: VMFS: VMware File System (ESX Server only). NFS: Network file system v3 (linux & esx servers only). NFS41: Network file system v4.1 (linux & esx servers only). CIFS: Common Internet File System. VSAN: Virtual SAN (ESX Server only). VFFS: Flash Read Cache (ESX Server only). VVOL: vSphere Virtual Volume (ESX Server only).
Optional
free_space | long | Available space of this datastore, in bytes. The server periodically updates this value. Optional. This field will be unset if the available space of this datastore is not known.
capacity | long | Capacity of this datastore, in bytes. The server periodically updates this value. Optional. This field will be unset if the capacity of this datastore is not known.