VDS Interfaces
[Beginning with Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, the Virtual Disk Service COM interface is superseded by the Windows Storage Management API.]
Virtual Disk Service (VDS) objects provide interfaces that expose methods for querying, configuring, and maintaining storage devices.
| Interface | Description |
|---|---|
| IEnumVdsObject | Enumerates through a set of VDS objects of a given type. |
| IVdsAdmin | Registers a provider with VDS. |
| IVdsAdvancedDisk | Creates and deletes partitions, and modifies partition attributes. |
| IVdsAdvancedDisk2 | Provides a method to change partition types. |
| IVdsAdviseSink | Receives VDS notifications. |
| IVdsAsync | Manages asynchronous operations. |
| IVdsController | Exposes methods for performing query and configuration operations on a controller. |
| IVdsControllerControllerPort | Provides a method to enumerate controller ports for a class implementing the IVdsController interface. |
| IVdsControllerPort | Provides methods for performing query and configuration operations on a controller port. |
| IVdsCreatePartitionEx | Creates a partition on a basic disk. |
| IVdsDisk | Queries and configures basic and dynamic disks. |
| IVdsDisk2 | Provides a method to set the SAN mode of a disk to offline or online. |
| IVdsDiskPartitionMF | Provides methods to perform file system management operations on partitions. |
| IVdsDiskPartitionMF2 | Provides a method to format a partition with additional formatting options. |
| IVdsDrive | Provides methods for performing query and configuration operations on a drive. |
| IVdsDrive2 | Provides a method for querying the properties of a drive. |
| IVdsHbaPort | Provides methods to query and interact with HBA ports on the local system. |
| IVdsHwProvider | Provides methods for performing query, reenumeration, and refresh operations on a hardware provider. |
| IVdsHwProviderPrivate | Provides a method that enables VDS to determine whether the hardware provider owns a specified LUN. |
| IVdsHwProviderPrivateMpio | Provides a method that sets the status of paths originating from a particular HBA port to the provider. |
| IVdsHwProviderStoragePools | Provides methods to create LUNs in a storage pool and enumerate the storage pools managed by a hardware provider. |
| IVdsHwProviderType | Provides a method to retrieve the type of hardware provider. |
| IVdsHwProviderType2 | This interface is not implemented. Use IVdsHwProviderType instead. |
| IVdsIscsiInitiatorAdapter | Provides methods to query and interact with iSCSI initiator adapters on the local system. |
| IVdsIscsiInitiatorPortal | Provides methods to query and interact with iSCSI initiator portals on the local system. |
| IVdsIscsiPortal | Provides methods for performing query and configuration operations on an iSCSI portal. |
| IVdsIscsiPortalGroup | Provides methods for performing query and configuration services on an iSCSI portal group. |
| IVdsIscsiPortalLocal | Provides methods for setting local-initiator specific IPSEC pre-shared keys on an iSCSI portal. |
| IVdsIscsiTarget | Provides methods for performing query and configuration operations on an iSCSI target. |
| IVdsLun | Provides methods for performing query and configuration operations on a LUN (logical unit number). |
| IVdsLun2 | Provides methods for applying and querying logical unit number (LUN) hints. |
| IVdsLunControllerPorts | Provides methods for performing controller port configuration operations on a LUN. |
| IVdsLunIscsi | Provides methods for performing query and configuration operations on an iSCSI LUN. |
| IVdsLunMpio | Provides methods for performing query and configuration operations on a LUN with MPIO extensions. |
| IVdsLunNaming | Provides a method to name LUNs for a class implementing the IVdsLun interface. |
| IVdsLunNumber | Provides a method to query the LUN number for a LUN. |
| IVdsLunPlex | Provides methods for performing query and configuration operations on a LUN plex. |
| IVdsMaintenance | Provides methods for performing maintenance operations on a subsystem, controller, or drive. |
| IVdsOpenVDisk | Defines methods for managing a virtual disk. |
| IVdsPack | Queries and configures packs containing disks, and creates volumes. |
| IVdsPack2 | Provides a method to create aligned volumes on a pack. |
| IVdsProvider | Returns a hardware or software provider's properties. |
| IVdsProviderPrivate | Provides methods to enable VDS to perform miscellaneous operations on provider objects. |
| IVdsProviderSupport | Provides a method to indicate what versions of the VDS interfaces are supported by the provider. |
| IVdsRemovable | Queries and ejects removable disks, such as CD-ROMs. |
| IVdsService | Provides service-level methods for working with VDS. |
| IVdsServiceHba | Provides a method to query HBA ports on the local system. |
| IVdsServiceIscsi | Provides methods to interface with the local initiator service. |
| IVdsServiceLoader | Launches VDS. |
| IVdsServiceUninstallDisk | Provides methods to uninstall basic and dynamic disks. |
| IVdsStoragePool | Provides methods to query information and enumerate related objects for a storage pool. |
| IVdsSubSystem | Provides methods for performing query and configuration operations on a subsystem. |
| IVdsSubSystem2 | Provides methods for performing query and configuration operations on a subsystem using the VDS_HINTS2 and VDS_SUB_SYSTEM_PROP2 structures. |
| IVdsSubSystemImportTarget | Provides methods to query and configure the default VSS import target for the subsystem. |
| IVdsSubSystemInterconnect | Provides a method to query the interconnect types that are supported by a subsystem. |
| IVdsSubSystemIscsi | Provides methods to query and configure iSCSI targets and portals on a subsystem. |
| IVdsSubSystemNaming | Provides a method to name subsystems for a class implementing the IVdsSubSystem interface. |
| IVdsSwProvider | Performs software-provider operations. |
| IVdsVDisk | Defines methods for managing a virtual disk. |
| IVdsVdProvider | Defines methods for creating and managing virtual disks. |
| IVdsVolume | Creates and deletes volume plexes, and modifies volume attributes. |
| IVdsVolume2 | Provides a method for returning volume property information, including the volume GUIDs. |
| IVdsVolumeMF | Performs access path and file system operations on volume objects. |
| IVdsVolumeMF2 | Provides methods to perform additional file system management operations on the volume object. |
| IVdsVolumeMF3 | Provides methods to perform additional file system management operations on the volume object. |
| IVdsVolumeOnline | Provides a method to bring single volumes online. |
| IVdsVolumePlex | Queries the containing volume and repairs bad extents. |
| IVdsVolumeShrink | Provides methods to support volume shrinking. |