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[Beginning with Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, the Virtual Disk Service COM interface is superseded by the Windows Storage Management API.]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.