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
vSphere Client
. 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
|
|---|---|
esxcli storage vvol
daemon unbindall
| Unbinds all Virtual Volume instances from all
storage providers that are known to the
ESXi host.
|
esxcli storage vvol
protocolendpoint list
| Lists the VVol protocol endpoints currently
known to the
ESXi host.
|
esxcli storage vvol
storagecontainer list
| Lists the VVol storage containers currently
known to the
ESXi host.
|
esxcli storage vvol
storagecontainer restore
| Restores storage containers of vendor providers
that are registered on the host.
|
esxcli storage vvol
vasacontext get
| Gets the VASA context (VC UUID).
|
esxcli storage vvol
vendorprovider list
| Lists the vendor providers registered on the
host.
|
esxcli storage vvol
vendorprovider restore
| Restores the vendor providers that are
registered on the host.
|