The
vSphere Web
Client UI uses user-friendly names for the default types of
vSphere managed objects. However, the service APIs, extension points, and
libraries in the SDK refer to vSphere objects by using the naming convention
established by the vSphere API.
vSphere Entity Names
in the User Interface and SDK Code
vSphere Entity Name in the
vSphere Web
Client User Interface
|
Entity Name in the SDK Code
|
|
Cluster
|
ClusterComputeResource
|
|
Data Center
|
Datacenter
|
|
Datastore
|
Datastore
|
|
Distributed Port Group
|
DistributedVirtualPortgroup
|
|
Distributed Switch
|
DistributedVirtualSwitch
|
|
Folder
|
Folder
|
|
Host
|
HostSystem
|
|
Standard Network
|
Network
|
|
Resource Pool
|
ResourcePool
|
|
Storage Pod
|
StoragePod
|
|
vApp
|
VirtualApp
|
|
Virtual Machine
|
VirtualMachine
|