GUID Partition Table (GPT) support on UEFI and BIOS systems when using VMware Virtual Disk Development Kit’s (VDDK) VixMntapi
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GUID Partition Table (GPT) support on UEFI and BIOS systems when using VMware Virtual Disk Development Kit’s (VDDK) VixMntapi

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Article ID: 342094

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Products

VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

This article provides information regarding the GUID Partition Table (GPT) support on UEFI and BIOS systems when using VMware Virtual Disk Development Kit’s (VDDK) VixMntapi.

Note: The support of GPT enables file-level restore on Windows Server 2012. For more information, see the VDDK 5.5.1 Release Notes.


Environment

VMware Virtual Disk Development 1.2
Virtual Disk Development Kit 5.5

Resolution

VMware Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK) 5.5.1, specifically VixMntapi, supports GUID Partition Tables (GPT) on both BIOS and Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) systems.

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