Storage Monitoring Service APIs
API Categories
Sms Storage Manager
The SmsStorageManager managed object (SMS) provides methods to retrieve information about available storage topology, capabilities, and state.
SMS establishes and maintains connections with VASA providers. SMS retrieves information about storage availability from the providers, and clients can use the SMS API to perform the following operations.
- Identify VASA providers.
- Retrieve information about storage arrays.
- Identify vSphere inventory entities (hosts and datastores) which are associated with external storage entities on the storage arrays.