Use Cases for the Virtual Disk Library
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.