Support for Managed Disk

Some operations are not supported:

For

VixDiskLib_Connect()

to open a managed disk connection, you must provide valid vSphere access credentials. On ESXi hosts,

VixDiskLib_Open()

cannot open a single link in a disk chain.

For

VixDiskLib_Create()

to create a managed disk on an ESXi host, first create a hosted type disk, then use

VixDiskLib_Clone()

to convert the hosted virtual disk to managed virtual disk.

VixDiskLib_Defragment()

can defragment hosted disks only.

VixDiskLib_Grow()

can grow hosted disks only.

VixDiskLib_Unlink()

can delete hosted disks only.

Until ESXi 5.1, the HotAdd transport was available only with vSphere Enterprise Edition and higher.

VMware vSphere SDKs and Tools 8.0