I'm not aware there is a RDM v2? afaik, the various version of a disk backing are documented here in the vSphere API reference guide
It's not unheard of that this data object could exists, there are lots that isn't publicly documented but within the API themselves. I've updated this script: to also printout the specific disk backing and it's version for all VMs, you could use the modified script to see what version your RDMs are (unfortunately I don't have any setup right now to test) .. though from what I remember, I've only seen version 1 ...
Here's a quick example of what the output would look like:
[vi-admin@scofield ~][http://reflex.primp-industries.com|http://reflex.primp-industries.com]$ ./getVMDiskInfo.pl --server reflex.primp-industries.com
test-pvscsi
Hard disk 1 = [http://himalaya-local-SAS.Savvio|http://himalaya-local-SAS.Savvio] test-pvscsi/test-pvscsi.vmdk
Hard disk 1 = isThinProvsioned
Hard disk 1 = persistent
Hard disk 1 = VirtualDiskFlatVer2BackingInfo
Hard disk 2 = [http://himalaya-local-SAS.Constellation|http://himalaya-local-SAS.Constellation] test-pvscsi/test-pvscsi.vmdk
Hard disk 2 = isNotThinProvisioned
Hard disk 2 = persistent
Hard disk 2 = VirtualDiskFlatVer2BackingInfo
Hard disk 3 = [http://himalaya-local-SAS.Savvio|http://himalaya-local-SAS.Savvio] test-pvscsi/test-pvscsi_2.vmdk
Hard disk 3 = isNotThinProvisioned
Hard disk 3 = persistent
Hard disk 3 = VirtualDiskFlatVer2BackingInfo
Hard disk 4 = [http://dlgCore-iSCSI.test|http://dlgCore-iSCSI.test] test-pvscsi/test-pvscsi.vmdk
Hard disk 4 = isNotThinProvisioned
Hard disk 4 = persistent
Hard disk 4 = VirtualDiskFlatVer2BackingInfo
Hard disk 5 = [http://himalaya-local-SAS.Savvio|http://himalaya-local-SAS.Savvio] test-pvscsi/test-pvscsi_1.vmdk
Hard disk 5 = isThinProvsioned
Hard disk 5 = persistent
Hard disk 5 = VirtualDiskFlatVer2BackingInfo
vMA-2
Hard disk 1 = [http://himalaya-local-SAS.Constellation|http://himalaya-local-SAS.Constellation] vMA-2/vMA-2.vmdk
Hard disk 1 = isNotThinProvisioned
Hard disk 1 = persistent
Hard disk 1 = VirtualDiskFlatVer2BackingInfo
vm-1
Hard disk 1 = [esxi40-1-local-storage] vm-1/vm-1.vmdk
Hard disk 1 = isThinProvsioned
Hard disk 1 = persistent
Hard disk 1 = VirtualDiskFlatVer2BackingInfo
vm-2
Hard disk 1 = [esxi40-1-local-storage] vm-2/vm-2.vmdk
Hard disk 1 = isThinProvsioned
Hard disk 1 = persistent
Hard disk 1 = VirtualDiskFlatVer2BackingInfo
Hopefully this helps you out
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William Lam
VMware vExpert 2009
VMware ESX/ESXi scripts and resources at:
VMware Code Central - Scripts/Sample code for Developers and Administrators
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Actually while poking around the API documents, I just found what Veeam was referring to as vRDM v2: VirtualDiskRawDiskVer2BackingInfo, it looks like it has further information which is used for change block tracking.
Again, I'm not exactly sure how one would setup a vRDM to be either v1 or v2? Perhaps this is standard from vSphere? I'm not 100% sure, but hopefully the script provided should display the version and maybe you can let me know if you have any v2 and if that is specific to creating vRDMs on vSphere with ESX(i) 4.
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William Lam
VMware vExpert 2009
VMware ESX/ESXi scripts and resources at:
VMware Code Central - Scripts/Sample code for Developers and Administrators
If you find this information useful, please award points for "correct" or "helpful".
The requirements on noted on the document, you do not run this on Service Console, this uses the VMware SDK and specifically the vSphere SDK for Perl. Please download the vCLI on either Windows or Linux ( I prefer Linux, since the script was developed on vmA ). You can also just download the vMA which is a VMware RHEL virtual appliance which contains the vCLI and other useful tools and you can just deploy as a new VM and upload the script and connect.
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William Lam
VMware vExpert 2009
VMware ESX/ESXi scripts and resources at:
VMware Code Central - Scripts/Sample code for Developers and Administrators
If you find this information useful, please award points for "correct" or "helpful".