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VDS_STORAGE_POOL_TYPE enumeration (vds.h)

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[Beginning with Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, the Virtual Disk Service COM interface is superseded by the Windows Storage Management API.]

Defines the set of storage pool types. These values are used in the type member of the VDS_STORAGE_POOL_PROP structure.

Syntax

typedef enum _VDS_STORAGE_POOL_TYPE {
  VDS_SPT_UNKNOWN = 0,
  VDS_SPT_PRIMORDIAL = 0x1,
  VDS_SPT_CONCRETE = 0x2
} VDS_STORAGE_POOL_TYPE;

Constants

 
VDS_SPT_UNKNOWN
Value: 0
The storage pool type is unknown.
VDS_SPT_PRIMORDIAL
Value: 0x1
The storage pool type is primordial.
VDS_SPT_CONCRETE
Value: 0x2
The storage pool type is concrete (non-primordial).

Remarks

The terms primordial storage pool and concrete storage pool are defined in section 5.1.3 of the "Part 3: Block Devices" portion of the SMI-S v1.5 specification, which can be downloaded from the SNIA website.

A storage area network (SAN) can contain one primordial pool. You can create multiple concrete pools within the primordial pool. The attributes in the VDS_POOL_ATTRIBUTES structure do not apply to a primordial pool, because it contains all physically available storage on the SAN. For example, suppose you have ten 10-GB SAN drives, five of which are in a concrete pool. In the Disk Management utility, the primordial pool has ten disk drives and a size of 100 GB, because it has a total of 100 GB of storage space available. The concrete pool has only 50 GB of storage space available. But if it is thin-provisioned, the size that the Disk Management utility reports for the concrete pool might be much larger than 50 GB.

Note  Additional constants might be added to the VDS_STORAGE_POOL_TYPE enumeration in future Windows versions. For this reason, your application must be designed to gracefully handle an unrecognized VDS_STORAGE_POOL_TYPE enumeration constant.
 

Requirements

Requirement Value
Minimum supported client Windows 7 [desktop apps only]
Minimum supported server Windows Server 2008 R2 [desktop apps only]
Header vds.h

See also

VDS_STORAGE_POOL_PROP