VMware defends ending downloads of SDK that helps VM backups – or migrations to rivals
VMware's virtual disk development kit (VDDK) is an SDK that a Broadcom technical document describes as “a set of libraries and utilities that enable software developers to create applications that can access and manipulate virtual disks used” and also “provides APIs for backup and recovery, cloning, and other operations on virtual disks.”
Those qualities mean VDDK is also useful when moving VMs from VMware to another virtualization environment.
“A vendor is entitled to change how it distributes an SDK...Doing it without a word, while the Apache CloudStack administration guide and other projects’ install instructions still tell people to click a link that no longer resolves, is something else.” - ShapeBlue
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