1. Types
2. vcenter
3. folder

## vcenter folder: summary

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

### Representations:

- JSON
- XML

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

#### Attributes:

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
Required
folder | string | Identifier of the folder. When clients pass a value of this structure as a parameter, the field must be an identifier for the resource type: `Folder`. When operations return a value of this structure as a result, the field will be an identifier for the resource type: `Folder`.
name | string | Name of the vCenter Server folder.
type | string | Type (`DATACENTER`, `DATASTORE`, `HOST`, `NETWORK`, `VIRTUAL_MACHINE`) of the vCenter Server folder. Defines the type of a vCenter Server folder. The type of a folder determines what what kinds of children can be contained in the folder. Value is one of: DATACENTER: A folder that can contain datacenters. DATASTORE: A folder that can contain datastores. HOST: A folder that can contain compute resources (hosts and clusters). NETWORK: A folder that can contain networkds. VIRTUAL_MACHINE: A folder that can contain virtual machines.