Monitoring and Managing
Virtual Volumes
The Virtual
Volumes functionality changes the storage management paradigm from managing
space inside datastores to managing abstract storage objects handled by storage
arrays.
With Virtual Volumes, an
individual virtual machine, not the datastore, becomes a unit of storage
management, while storage hardware gains complete control over virtual disk
content, layout, and management. The
vSphere Storage
documentation discusses Virtual Volumes in some detail and explains how to
manage them by using the
.
The following ESXCLI commands
are available for managing display information about virtual volumes and for
unbinding all Virtual Volumes from all vendor providers. See the
vSphere Storage
documentation for information on creating Virtual Volumes and configuring
multipathing and SCSI-based endpoints.
Command
| Description
|
|---|---|
storage vvol daemon
unbindall
| Unbinds all Virtual Volume instances from all
storage providers that are known to the
host.
|
storage vvol protocolendpoint
list
| Lists the VVol protocol endpoints currently
known to the
host.
|
storage vvol storagecontainer
list
| Lists the VVol storage containers currently
known to the
host.
|
storage vvol storagecontainer
restore
| Restores storage containers of vendor providers
that are registered on the host.
|
storage vvol vasacontext
get
| Gets the VASA context (VC UUID).
|
storage vvol vendorprovider
list
| Lists the vendor providers registered on the
host.
|
storage vvol vendorprovider
restore
| Restores the vendor providers that are
registered on the host.
|