Storage Monitoring Service APIs

API Categories

Provider interface for Storage Monitoring Service (SMS).

Service interface for the Storage Monitoring Service.

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.

sms-task

A task is used to monitor long running operations.

vasa-provider

VASA(vStorage APIs for Storage Awareness) provider definition.