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Outline of the talk 2 Introduction A bit about physical disks Disk terminology (Geometry, MBR, Partition Table, Boot Sector) Dynamic disks Virtual disk basics Parent, Child disks, Disk geometry, VMDK format Why VDDK VixDiskLib – API Local and Remote disks Transport methods and how they work Snapshots VixMntapi – API Mounting on Windows and Linux Pre-requisites on Linux References and Links Q&A
Hard Disk terminology – A brief recap 3 Disk is made of many platters and heads Sector – Smallest addressable unit on the disk (512 bytes) Geometry – CHS - Cylinders/Heads/Sectors (per track) Cylinder/Head/Sector used to be enough to address any data item on the disk – not any more Master Boot Record – first sector of the disk Contains partition table and boot code Holds disk signature on Windows MBR based partitioning Legacy, GPT based partitioning is modern Boot sector - first sector of the partition
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Page 7 and 8: Parent and Child Disks 7 VI client
Page 9 and 10: Why VDDK 9 VMDK format public but w
Page 11 and 12: VixDiskLib API descriptions 11 Prog
Page 13 and 14: VDDK - Transports 13 VDDK App
Page 15 and 16: VDDK - HotAdd transport (new in 1.1
Page 17 and 18: VDDK - SAN transport 17 ESX server
Page 19 and 20: VixMntapi (new in 1.1) 19 VixMntapi
Page 21 and 22: VixMntapi Internals - Windows 21 Vi
Page 23 and 24: VixMntapi internals - Windows 23 Af
Page 25 and 26: References and Links 25 VDDK main l
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