HostPlugStoreTopology
This data object represents the plug-store topology on a host system.
Through this data object, the storage structure of a system that utilizes the plug-store architecture can be presented.
The object entity-relationship diagram is modeled below:
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| 0..N 0..N 0..N |
| Plugin -----> Device ------> Path <------ Adapter |
| <------ | ------> |
| 0,1 | 1 |
| | |
| | 0,1 |
| \|/ |
| Target |
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Description and reasoning behind the relationships:
When a storage device driver is loaded, it claims a PCI device as a host bus adapter. This host bus adapter is represented as an Adapter. The PCI device identifier is a property on the HostBusAdapter in the Adapter.
Once the host bus adapter is on the system, the hardware bus is scanned. If a storage Device is found on the bus, the communication path to the Device from the the host bus adapter is represented by a Path. A Device may have more than one Path. How those Paths are composed to create a Device is determined by a storage Plugin.
When a storage Plugin is loaded, it claims a set of Paths. It groups these Paths into a set of Devices. Devices are hence associated with a set of Paths that might be used to provide a single logical device such as in the case of multipathing. Devices may be also composed of zero Paths meaning that they do not directly use a host bus adapter for communication with underlying storage.
The purpose of this data object is to represent the topology of storage as seen by the base plug-store system. There is some overlap with information in other objects such as ScsiTopology which is only applicable when a particular "native multipathing" plugin is used. This data object provides the complete inventory of Devices and Paths. Hence it provides a superset of Device mappings over data object such as ScsiTopology and Multipa
The use cases that this data object accommodates includes the following non-exhaustive list:
- Enumerate paths on a host bus adapter.
- Enumerate paths on a storage device.
- Conveniently access the devices a host bus adapter is associated with by traversing the path.
- Determine which plugin a device belongs.
- Determine which paths are claimed by a plugin by accumulating the paths of all device of the plugin.
- Determine which plugin a path belongs to by accessing its device and finding that device in the Plugin list.
{
"_typeName": "string",
"adapter": [
{
"_typeName": "string",
"key": "string",
"adapter": {
"_typeName": "string",
"key": "string",
"device": "string",
"bus": 0,
"status": "string",
"model": "string",
"driver": "string",
"pci": "string",
"storageProtocol": "string"
},
"path": [
"HostPlugStoreTopologyPath Object"
]
}
],
"path": [
{
"_typeName": "string",
"key": "string",
"name": "string",
"channelNumber": 0,
"targetNumber": 0,
"lunNumber": 0,
"adapter": "HostPlugStoreTopologyAdapter Object",
"target": {
"_typeName": "string",
"key": "string",
"transport": {
"_typeName": "string"
}
},
"device": "HostPlugStoreTopologyDevice Object"
}
],
"target": [
{
"_typeName": "string",
"key": "string",
"transport": {
"_typeName": "string"
}
}
],
"device": [
{
"_typeName": "string",
"key": "string",
"lun": {
"_typeName": "string",
"deviceName": "string",
"deviceType": "string",
"key": "string",
"uuid": "string",
"descriptor": [
{
"_typeName": "string",
"quality": "string",
"id": "string"
}
],
"canonicalName": "string",
"displayName": "string",
"lunType": "string",
"vendor": "string",
"model": "string",
"revision": "string",
"scsiLevel": 0,
"serialNumber": "string",
"durableName": {
"_typeName": "string",
"namespace": "string",
"namespaceId": 0,
"data": [
0
]
},
"alternateName": [
{
"_typeName": "string",
"namespace": "string",
"namespaceId": 0,
"data": [
0
]
}
],
"standardInquiry": [
0
],
"queueDepth": 0,
"operationalState": [
"string"
],
"capabilities": {
"_typeName": "string",
"updateDisplayNameSupported": false
},
"vStorageSupport": "string",
"protocolEndpoint": false,
"perenniallyReserved": false,
"clusteredVmdkSupported": false,
"applicationProtocol": "string",
"dispersedNs": false,
"deviceReservation": "string"
},
"path": [
"HostPlugStoreTopologyPath Object"
]
}
],
"plugin": [
{
"_typeName": "string",
"key": "string",
"name": "string",
"device": [
{
"_typeName": "string",
"key": "string",
"lun": {
"_typeName": "string",
"deviceName": "string",
"deviceType": "string",
"key": "string",
"uuid": "string",
"descriptor": [
{
"_typeName": "string",
"quality": "string",
"id": "string"
}
],
"canonicalName": "string",
"displayName": "string",
"lunType": "string",
"vendor": "string",
"model": "string",
"revision": "string",
"scsiLevel": 0,
"serialNumber": "string",
"durableName": {
"_typeName": "string",
"namespace": "string",
"namespaceId": 0,
"data": [
0
]
},
"alternateName": [
{
"_typeName": "string",
"namespace": "string",
"namespaceId": 0,
"data": [
0
]
}
],
"standardInquiry": [
0
],
"queueDepth": 0,
"operationalState": [
"string"
],
"capabilities": {
"_typeName": "string",
"updateDisplayNameSupported": false
},
"vStorageSupport": "string",
"protocolEndpoint": false,
"perenniallyReserved": false,
"clusteredVmdkSupported": false,
"applicationProtocol": "string",
"dispersedNs": false,
"deviceReservation": "string"
},
"path": [
"HostPlugStoreTopologyPath Object"
]
}
],
"claimedPath": [
{
"_typeName": "string",
"key": "string",
"name": "string",
"channelNumber": 0,
"targetNumber": 0,
"lunNumber": 0,
"adapter": "HostPlugStoreTopologyAdapter Object",
"target": {
"_typeName": "string",
"key": "string",
"transport": {
"_typeName": "string"
}
},
"device": "HostPlugStoreTopologyDevice Object"
}
]
}
]
}List of host bus adapters in the plug store inventory.
Partial list of targets as seen by the host.
The list of targets may not be exhaustive on the host.