Broadcom has taken down the public download pages for the VMware Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK). The pages for VDDK 8 and 9, along with the landing page, now return a generic error message.
So far, there has been no formal announcement from Broadcom.
The removal was carried out sometime last month, as people on Reddit and vendor forums started reporting dead links in mid-August. ShapeBlue, an Apache CloudStack services firm, documented the change on August 25. Red Hat followed days later with a support note for its Migration Toolkit for Virtualization.
While existing copies will still be functional, meaning implementations that currently use VDDK will continue working as usual, those who want fresh copies are out of luck.
What’s the fuss about?
The VDDK is a library that lets backup and migration tools read VMware virtual disks from outside the hypervisor. VMware launched it in 2008 as an easily accessible SDK for customers building disk…
