The library provides access to virtual disks, enabling a range of use cases for application vendors including:

Back up a particular volume, or all volumes, associated with a virtual machine.

Connect a backup proxy to vSphere and back up all virtual machines on a storage cluster.

Read virtual disk and run off-line anti-virus scanning, or package analysis, of virtual machines.

Write to virtual disk to perform off-line centralized patching of virtual machines.

Manipulate virtual disks to defragment, expand, convert, rename, or shrink the file system image.

Perform data recovery or virus cleaning on corrupt or infected off-line virtual machines.