Provider parameters for VMware

Several Volume Shadow Copy Service and Virtual Disk Service parameters are specific to the VMware guest support feature. The parameters allow the Volume Shadow Copy Service and Virtual Disk Service to communicate with the ESX(i) Server web Services to manipulate the RDM disks during a snapshot.

You must set up the parameters for VMWare in the following two cases
  1. The snapshot disk is discovered by the ESX(i) Server through Fibre Channel and mapped to the virtual machine as the RDM disk.
  2. The snapshot disk is discovered by the ESX(i) Server through software iSCSI and mapped to the virtual machine as the RDM disk.
The following Volume Shadow Copy Service and Virtual Disk Service parameters are available only in the VMware virtual platform:
vmhost
The VMware web Service that is located on the ESX(i) Server or vCenter Server, such as: https://ESX_Server_IP/sdk
vmuser
The user that has the access to the ESX(i) Server or vCenter Server with the authority to perform RDM disk operations.
vmpassword
The password for the vmuser to log on.
vmcredential
The session credential store path for the ESX(i) Server or vCenter Server that is used by Java.
You can use the IBM® VSS configuration tool ibmvcfg to set the parameters. For example, type ibmvcfg set vmhosst https://9.11.110.115/sdk:
C:\Program Files\IBM\Hardware Provider for VSS-VSD>ibmvcfg set vmhosst 
https://9.11.110.115/sdk

The vmcredential path is the full path name of the Java key file. See Generating the Java credential keystore for information about generating the Java keystore.