How to retrieve partition layout information (drive layout) of virtual disk VMDK.

[gangan2000]

Is there any VDDK or vSphere API method to retrieve partition information (partition table layout) of specified VMDK? something like IOCTL_DISK_GET_DRIVE_LAYOUT for physical drives. I would like to know the following information.

1. Partition number

2. Starting offset

3. partition length

4. partition type.

[admin]

Unfortunately, there is nothing like that in VDDK.

You can of course read the partition table (i.e. MBR) and parse the table yourself.

Thanks

Sudarsan

[gangan2000]

Thanks Sudharsan.