<div class="content" name="Introduction" uuid="9d7eb523-cd06-46a2-8280-db0c449aa8a2"><p>The Virtual Disk Service (VDS) Remote Protocol is a set of
Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) interfaces for managing the
configuration of disk storage on a computer. The Virtual Disk Service Remote
Protocol deals with detailed low-level operating system and storage concepts.</p><p>The Virtual Disk Service Remote Protocol is used to
programmatically enumerate and configure disks, volumes, host bus adapter (HBA)
ports, and iSCSI initiators on remote computers. This protocol supersedes the
Disk Management Remote Protocol, specified in <a href="../ms-dmrp/19a16e20-072f-4d74-a245-ce4df2f1ecdd" data-linktype="relative-path">[MS-DMRP]</a>.</p><p>Sections 1.5, 1.8, 1.9, 2, and 3 of this specification are
normative. All other sections and examples in this specification are
informative.</p></div>