Virtual Disk API Functions

This chapter provides an overview of functions in the Virtual Disk API and includes the following sections:

■	Virtual Disk Library Functions

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Start Up

■	Disk Operations

■	Metadata Handling

■	Cloning a Virtual Disk

■	Disk Chaining and Redo Logs

■	Error Handling

■	Administrative Disk Operations

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Shut Down

■	Advanced Transport APIs

■	Updating Applications for Advanced Transport

■	Multithreading Considerations

■	Capabilities of Library Calls

After a presentation of Virtual Disk API functions in alphabetic order, sections focus on what the functions do, in the normal order they would appear in a program, except advanced transport functions (SAN and HotAdd) appear after the shutdown functions.