Capabilities of Library Calls

This section describes limitations, if any.

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.

Support for Hosted Disk

Most everything (except advanced transport) is supported, except:

■	The VixDiskLib_ConnectEx() extended connect function.

■	SAN and HotAdd advanced transports.

■	VixDiskLib_PrepareForAccess() and VixDiskLib_EndAccess() to delay Storage VMotion.