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Virtual Disk Programming Guide RDM Disks and Virtual BIOS 53 Restoring RDM Disks 53 Restoring the Virtual BIOS or UEFI 54 Interfacing With VMware vSphere 54 The VIX API 54 Virus Scan all Hosted Disk 54 The vSphere Web Services API 55 Virus Scan All Managed Disk 55 Read and Write VMDK with vSphere WS API 56 7 Designing vSphere Backup Solutions 57 Design and Implementation Overview 57 The Backup Process 57 Communicating With the Server 58 Information Containers as Managed Objects 58 More About Managed Objects 58 Managed Object References 59 Unique ID for a Different vCenter 59 Gathering Status and Configuration Information 59 PropertyCollector Data 59 Useful Property Information 60 Doing a Backup Operation 60 Prerequisites 60 Create a Temporary Snapshot on the Target Virtual Machine 60 Changed Block Tracking 61 Extract Backup Data from the Target Virtual Machine 61 Delete the Temporary Snapshot 61 The Restore Process 61 Doing a Restore Operation 62 Prerequisites 62 Restoring an Existing Virtual Machine to a Previous State 62 Creating a New Virtual Machine 62 Accessing Files on Virtual Disks 63 Summary 63 Low Level Backup Procedures 64 Communicating with the Server 64 The PropertyCollector 64 PropertyCollector Arguments 64 Getting the Data from the PropertyCollector 67 Identifying Virtual Disks for Backup and Restore 68 Creating a Snapshot 68 Backing Up a Virtual Disk 69 Deleting a Snapshot 69 Changed Block Tracking on Virtual Disks 70 Enabling Changed Block Tracking 70 Gathering Changed Block Information 71 Troubleshooting 72 Limitations on Changed Block Tracking 72 Checking for Namespace 73 Low Level Restore Procedures 73 Restoring a Virtual Machine and Disk 73 Creating a Virtual Machine 73 Using the VirtualMachineConfigInfo 79 Editing or Deleting a Device 80 6 VMware, Inc.
Restoring Virtual Disk Data 80 Raw Device Mapping (RDM) Disks 80 Restore of Incremental Backup Data 80 Restore Fails with Direct Connection to ESXi Host 81 Tips and Best Practices 81 Best Practices for SAN Transport 81 Best Practices for HotAdd Transport 81 Best Practices for NBDSSL Transport 82 General Backup and Restore 82 Backup and Restore of Thin‐Provisioned Disk 82 Virtual Machine Configuration 83 About Changed Block Tracking 83 Windows and Linux Implementations 83 The VMware VSS Implementation 83 Working with Microsoft Shadow Copy 84 Linux HotAdd and SCSI Controller ID 85 A Virtual Disk Mount API 87 The VixMntapi Library 87 Types and Structures 87 Operating System Information 87 Disk Volume Information 88 Function Calls 88 VixMntapi_Init() 88 VixMntapi_Exit() 88 VixMntapi_OpenDiskSet() 89 VixMntapi_OpenDisks() 89 VixMntapi_GetDiskSetInfo() 89 VixMntapi_FreeDiskSetInfo() 90 VixMntapi_CloseDiskSet() 90 VixMntapi_GetVolumeHandles() 90 VixMntapi_FreeVolumeHandles() 90 VixMntapi_GetOsInfo() 90 VixMntapi_FreeOsInfo() 91 VixMntapi_MountVolume() 91 VixMntapi_DismountVolume() 91 VixMntapi_GetVolumeInfo() 91 VixMntapi_FreeVolumeInfo() 91 Programming with VixMntapi 92 File System Support 92 Read‐Only Mount on Linux 92 VMware Product Platforms 92 Sample VixMntapi Code 93 Restrictions on Virtual Disk Mount 93 B Errors Codes and Open Source 95 Finding Error Code Documentation 95 Association With VIX API Errors 95 Interpreting Errors Codes 95 Troubleshooting Dynamic Libraries 95 Open Source Components 96 Contents VMware, Inc. 7
Page 1 and 2: Virtual Disk Programming Guide Virt
Page 3 and 4: Contents About This Book 9 1 Introd
Page 5: Algorithm for vSphere Backup 39 Bes
Page 9 and 10: About This Book The VMware ® Virtu
Page 11 and 12: 1 Introduction to the Virtual Disk
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Page 15 and 16: 2 Installing the Development Kit 2
Page 17 and 18: To enable VDDK binaries on Windows
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Page 29 and 30: Initialize the Library Virtual Disk
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Page 37 and 38: Location of Log Files Virtual Disk
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Page 41 and 42: Virtual Disk API Functions IMPORTAN
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Index Numerics 32-bit and 64-bit 12
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