Concept of VDDK and way to determine VDDK version used by Veritas NBU

Products

• VMware vSphere ESX 8.x

Issue/Introduction

This article provides concept of VDDK and the way to determine VDDK version used by Veritas NBU(NetBackup).

Environment

VMware vSphere 8

Resolution

The Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK) is a collection of C libraries, code samples, utilities, and documentation to help you create and access VMware virtual disk storage. The kit includes sets of C function calls to manipulate virtual disk files, C++ code samples that you can build with either Visual Studio or the GNU C compiler, and documentation about VDDK and vSphere libraries.

VDDK is used with vSphere Storage APIs for Data Protection (VADP) to develop backup and restore software.

Veritas NetBackup use VDDK and has version mapping as per document below (page 96):

https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/doc/NB_10_OSSCL

User can use way below to get VDDK version in Veritas NetBackup

1. Go to NetBackup Administration Console

2. Search "vixdisklib.dll"

3. Select Properties --->Details

4. Check "Product version"

 

Additional Information

VDDK 

https://developer.broadcom.com/sdks/vmware-virtual-disk-development-kit-vddk/8.0

 

Veritas NetBackup Administration Console

https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/doc/18716246-165970620-0/v41641614-165970620