Q: VDDK licensing
Does one need a license to redistribute VDDK modules on the "Distributable Code List"? http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-19228
View ArticleVDDK 5.1 comes with outdated vmware-mount
Download VDDK 5.1 and try to mount a remote vmdk on ESXi - it will fail.If you have a look at the binary for vmware-mount.exe you will see that it is version VMware DiskMount Utility version 4.2.0...
View ArticleGet datastores names with searchManagedEntity function
hi,I'm trying to locate a specific nas storage Datastore datastore = (Datastore) new InventoryNavigator(rootFolder).searchManagedEntity("DataStore",...
View ArticleVDDK 5.1 and C#.Net
Hello,I try to use the VDDK to access the VMDK of a virtual machine managed by vCenter. Here is the C#.Net code: public enum VixDiskLibCredType: int{VIXDISKLIB_CRED_UID = 1,VIXDISKLIB_CRED_SESSIONID =...
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How to adjust cache size of vixDiskLib?
Hello~ I'm writing a python program which will R/W VMDKfile by using vixDiskLib.dll. I'd like to speed up R/W spped because some files will be read/wrote many times, these file's size might be very...
View ArticleRE: Looking for some advice
Hi folks, We are a Cloud Provider who uses CommVault as the primary backup solution for our virtualized and physical workloads. Out whole backup environment is virtual as well including Media Agents...
View Articlelinux vmware-mount command error
Hi everyone, I want to mount .vmdk file of centos machine. I tried vmware-mount command, but i have a trouble. I could mount partiton 1, but when i tried mount partition 3, I got below error even...
View ArticleVixMntapi_Init returned error code 6
I am using the latest VDDK ver 5.0 on windows 7 64-bit against ESXi host.Prior to this call, I called the VixDiskLib_Init which returned successfully. Here is the code snippet:...
View ArticleQuestions about quiesce flag during snapshot creation when guest OS is Linux
Hi Guys, I got a little confused about quiesce flag during snapshot creation when guest OS is Linux, as I read the VDDK documents. Per "Driver Type and Quiescing Mechanisms Used According to Guest...
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Change Transport mode from NBDSSL to NBD VDDK 1.2.1
Hi All, I'm in real need of help! Going back a month our VM backups were completing in quite good time. We wanted to test adding the SAN to the backup proxy that is using CA ARCserver r15 SP1 and VDDK...
View Articlemount a read-only vmdk
Hi! How can I (read-only) mount a read-only vmdk with vmware-mount? More details:I have a read-only nfs-export, where 40 GB .vmdks are inside. When I try to mount them with vmware-mount from the vddk,...
View ArticleVidDiskLib crash in Multithread environment
I was going crazy over a crash issue with a module which uses VixDiskLib. The module is a DLL and multiple threads creates an instance of the DLL which does, Init, Connect, Open, Read, write, Close,...
View ArticleHow to dismount the volumes if the application crashes.
Hi, I am opening a vmdk file and mounting the volumes by using the below code m_vixError = VixDiskLib_Open( m_vixDiskLibCon, fileName, VIXDISKLIB_FLAG_OPEN_UNBUFFERED,...
View ArticleSAN transport mode issue
When I am trying to use SAN transport mode during restore I get following error.SAN mode works first time correctly but when I am trying 2nd time I always get following error in vixdisklib.logs.I am...
View ArticlevixDiskLibSample failed when running in a VM
Hi All, I'm recently playing the sample code shipped with vixDiskLib 5.1. I made small changes (i.e. switch the srcConnection with dstConnection, and swith the srcPath with diskPath) in doClone()...
View ArticleVDDK and Unicode support
Hi, I saw the documentation which says VDDK supports Unicode characters. The documentation says that I have use iconv library calls to handle random unicode pathnames. When I checked the Iconv examples...
View Articlevmount VDDK 5.0 failed to load libeay32.dll
Hello I got VMware-vix-disklib-5.0.0-427917.i386.exeafter installation I did overwrite files with contents of vddk64.zipI also did edit the Path system environment variablemaybe I forgot to to...
View Articlevixdisklib_open vmdk path eschape chars
I have problem opening a disk when vmdk path contain a ñ or invalid char. I am using a .net wrapper to invoke vddk and i have tried to escape chars from .net but I cant find the solution. Any help on...
View ArticleCBT for eager zero disks
Hey guys i just want to ask maybe a stupid question. is there a prospect that i can in the future only backup the used blocks of a eager zeroed disc in a full backup? (Today i have to backup hole disc...
View Articlevmware vdiskmanager User not authorized for host agent contact.
Hi guys,I've been trying for a couple o' days now to export a vmdk from ESXi to my local machine using vmware vdiskmanager and the command as follows: vmware-vdiskmanager -S -h 192.168.1.9 -u myuser -f...
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