Create a New Hosted Disk

VixDiskLib_Create() locally creates a new virtual disk, after being connected to the host. In createParams, you must specify the disk type, adapter, hardware version, and capacity as a number of sectors. This function supports hosted disk. For managed disk, first create a hosted type virtual disk, then use VixDiskLib_Clone() to convert the virtual disk to managed disk.

vixError =
VixDiskLib_Create(appGlobals.connection, appGlobals.diskPath, &createParams, NULL, NULL);

Currently VixDiskLib_Create() enforces a 4GB limit for virtual disks on FAT32 and FAT file systems, a 16TB - 54KB (hex FFFFFFF0000) limit on NTFS file systems, and a 2^64 - 1 limit (more than an exabyte) on ReFS and exFAT file systems. Hosted virtual disk > 2TB is not supported.

POSIX based file systems including NFS version 3 no longer have a 2GB file size limit. Although various checks are done to avoid creating impossibly large files, it becomes the customer’s responsibility to cope with 2GB limits on NFS version 2 or Linux kernel 2.4 (EFS).