virtualization
Says license was never about moving VMs
VMware has defended its decision to end public downloads of its Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK).
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 qualiies mean VDDK is also useful when moving VMs from VMware to another virtualization environment.
VMware’s rivals spotted that and made VDDK part of their migration tools. Nutanix’s Move, for example, requires a VDDK library to do the job. Red Hat also recommends using VDDK for migrations.
ShapeBlue, an integrator that specializes in Apache CloudStack, an alternative to VMware, rates VDDK as an…
