To obtain information about the virtual infrastructure, you retrieve managed object properties. Managed object properties can be simple data types, such as integer or string data, or they can be complex types such as data objects that contain sets of properties.
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Obtaining Information from a Server Working with Data Structures Accessing Property Values Nested Properties and Property Paths in Composite Data Structures xsd:anyType Arrays xsd:anyType unconstrained type declarations. A vSphere client must map values of xsd:anyType to explicit data types. An xsd:anyType value can represent a single data value or it can represent an array. The WSDL for the vSphere Web Services API defines array types for all of the data values that a vSphere client can send or receive as arrays. The array types use the prefix “ArrayOf”. An example of an array type is ArrayOfString for string values. Indexed Array and Key-Based Array Properties Unset Optional Properties Escape Character in Name and Path Properties ServiceContent.rootFolder property), denoted by the slash character.
