A basic deejay angel is a book on a concrete disk, which has a well-defined, appear or proprietary, architecture and is interpreted by a Basic Machine Adviser as a adamantine disk. IT administrators andcomputer application developers administrate them through offline operations application congenital or third-party tools. In agreement of naming, a basic deejay angel for a assertive Basic Machine adviser has a specific book blazon extension, e.g., .vmdk for VMware VMDK, .vhd for Xen and Microsoft Hyper-V, .vdi for Oracle VM VirtualBox, etc.
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Raw disk mapping
There are two modes in which a raw deejay can be mapped for use by a basic machine
Basic mode
The mapped deejay is presented as if it is a analytic volume, or a basic deejay file, to the bedfellow operating arrangement and its absolute accouterments characteristics are hidden. In this mode, book locking provides abstracts aegis through abreast for circumstantial updates; the archetype on address operation enables snapshots. Basic approach additionally offers portability beyond accumulator accouterments because it presents the constant behavior as a basic deejay file.Concrete mode
In this mode, additionally alleged the canyon through mode, the Basic Machine Monitor bypasses the I/O virtualization band and passes all I/O commands anon to the device. All concrete characteristics of the basal accouterments are apparent to the bedfellow operating system. There is no book locking to accommodate abstracts protection.
Basic mode
The mapped deejay is presented as if it is a analytic volume, or a basic deejay file, to the bedfellow operating arrangement and its absolute accouterments characteristics are hidden. In this mode, book locking provides abstracts aegis through abreast for circumstantial updates; the archetype on address operation enables snapshots. Basic approach additionally offers portability beyond accumulator accouterments because it presents the constant behavior as a basic deejay file.Concrete mode
In this mode, additionally alleged the canyon through mode, the Basic Machine Monitor bypasses the I/O virtualization band and passes all I/O commands anon to the device. All concrete characteristics of the basal accouterments are apparent to the bedfellow operating system. There is no book locking to accommodate abstracts protection.
Virtual disk formats
The afterward table provides a affinity cast that shows which accurate basic deejay architecture is accurate by a Basic Machine Monitor. The appellation Native represents that the Basic Machine Monitor inherently supports a accurate basic deejay format, whereas, the appellation Import indicates that a about-face apparatus should be acclimated to catechumen that architecture to addition natively accurate format.
Offline virtual image operations and tools
This area surveys the accoutrement offered by Basic Apparatus Monitor and third-party vendors for some of the accepted operations performed on basic deejay images. The accoutrement are offered either as,
A packaged apartment for a accustomed artefact line, e.g. vmkfstools1 for VMware ESX, vmware-vdiskmanager 14 for VMware Workstation, Fusion and Server; vboxmanage 9 for VirtualBox, or,
Discrete accoutrement acknowledging one or added operations on basic deejay files of a accustomed format, e.g., VHD Tool15, or beyond one or added artefact lines, e.g., SCVMM 16, or,
Built-in card items in the user interface of the product, e.g., actualize (new) basic disk, in VMware Workstation, Fusion, and Server; VirtualBox; Parallels Dekstop and Workstation.
Each apparatus requires that the basic deejay angel should be offline, i.e., no basic apparatus that uses this basic deejay angel should be active back the operation is performed.
Note that the addendum / amplification / amplification is allusive alone for those basic deejay images that accept pre-allocated storage. The compress and defragment operations are accurate alone for basic deejay images that abound dynamically by allocating accumulator on demand. The closing operations are performed on the deejay blocks acceptance to the basic deejay image; a consecutive OS-level defragmentation is all-important to acknowledgment blocks freed by them to the unallocated list.
The table beneath lists the basic deejay angel operations and the accoutrement accessible for assuming them per bartering product
A packaged apartment for a accustomed artefact line, e.g. vmkfstools1 for VMware ESX, vmware-vdiskmanager 14 for VMware Workstation, Fusion and Server; vboxmanage 9 for VirtualBox, or,
Discrete accoutrement acknowledging one or added operations on basic deejay files of a accustomed format, e.g., VHD Tool15, or beyond one or added artefact lines, e.g., SCVMM 16, or,
Built-in card items in the user interface of the product, e.g., actualize (new) basic disk, in VMware Workstation, Fusion, and Server; VirtualBox; Parallels Dekstop and Workstation.
Each apparatus requires that the basic deejay angel should be offline, i.e., no basic apparatus that uses this basic deejay angel should be active back the operation is performed.
Note that the addendum / amplification / amplification is allusive alone for those basic deejay images that accept pre-allocated storage. The compress and defragment operations are accurate alone for basic deejay images that abound dynamically by allocating accumulator on demand. The closing operations are performed on the deejay blocks acceptance to the basic deejay image; a consecutive OS-level defragmentation is all-important to acknowledgment blocks freed by them to the unallocated list.
The table beneath lists the basic deejay angel operations and the accoutrement accessible for assuming them per bartering product
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