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Services Utility: Virtual Disk Service Service | Display Name (?): | Virtual Disk Service | | Short Name (?): | vds | | Executable (?): | vds.exe | | Library (?): | None. | | Depends On (?): | None. | | Supports (?): | None. | | Description (?): | Provides software volume and hardware volume management service. | | OS (?): | Server 2003, Vista Server | | Startup (?): | | Default | Home | Workstation | Server | Minimal | Tweaked | Automatic | | Disabled | Disabled | Manual | Manual | Disabled | Disabled | Disabled | |
Explanation (?): |
The virtual disk service service provides a native implementation for advanced mass storage device configuration and maintenance. This allows multiple vendors to interact with hardware in a standard way that reduces overhead and complexity for a server administrator. In more common terms this service provides a simple interface for all server storage devices, such as RAID controllers. The vendors need to write software to take advantage of this, but from the user's perspective all storage devices can be maintained through VDS.
If you are running a server then you should enable this service if you have known devices that take advantage of it. Otherwise this service should be left to manual, as it is only started if something attempts to use it. |
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"Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for 'the universal brotherhood of man' - with his mouth". --Mark Twain
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