ESXi - 6.7 storage

VMKernel system properties and commands for configuring properties of the kernel core system and related system services.

core

adapter

• list

List all the SCSI Host Bus Adapters on the system.

• rescan

Rescan SCSI HBAs to search for new Devices, remove DEAD paths and update path state. This operation will also run an claim operation equivalent to the claimrule run command and a filesystem rescan.

capabilities

• list

List the capabilities of the SCSI HBAs in the system.

device

• list

List the devices associated with HBAs.

stats

• get

List the SCSI stats for the SCSI Host Bus Adapters in the system.

claiming

• autoclaim

Control the automatic PSA (path/device) claiming code allowing the disabling of the automatic claiming process or re-enabling of the claiming process if it was previously disabled. By default the automatic PSA claiming process is on and should not be disabled by users unless specifically instructed to do so.

• reclaim

Attempt to unclaim all paths to a device and then run the loaded claimrules on each of the paths unclaimed to attempt to reclaim them.

• unclaim

1) Unclaim a path or set of paths, disassociating them from a PSA plugin. NOTES: It is normal for path claiming to fail especially when unclaiming by plugin or adapter. Only inactive paths with no I/O will be able to be unclaimed. Typically the ESXi USB partition and devices with VMFS volumes on them will not be unclaimable. Also NOTE unclaiming will not persist and periodic path claiming will reclaim these paths in the near future unless claim rules are configured to mask the path.

2) Detach a (set of) filter(s) from one or more devices.

claimrule

• list

List all the claimrules on the system.

• add

Add a claimrule to the set of claimrules on the system.

• convert

Convert ESX 3.x style /adv/Disk/MaskLUNs LUN masks to Claim Rule format.
WARNING: This conversion will not work for all input MaskLUNs variations! Please inspect the list of generated claim rules carefuly, then if the suggested LUN mask claim rules are correct use the --commit parameter to write the list to the config file.

• load

Load path claiming rules from config file into the VMkernel.

• move

Move a claimrule from one rule id to another

• remove

Delete a claimrule to the set of claimrules on the system.

• run

Execute path claiming rules.

device

• list

List the devices currently registered with the PSA.

• purge

Removes storage devices which have not been seen in some time interval.

• set

Provide control to allow a user to modify a SCSI device's state.

• setconfig

Set device configuration

capacity

• list

List capacity information for the known storage devices.

detached

• list

Lists all devices that were detached manually by changing their state on the system.

• remove

Provide control to allow a user to remove Detached devices from the persistent detached device list.

inquirycache

• list

List inquiry cache information for the known storage devices.

• set

Manipulate inquiry cache settings of storage devices.

latencythreshold

• list

List latency sensitive threshold for the known storage devices.

• set

Set device's latency sensitive threshold (in milliseconds). If IO latency exceeds the threshold, new IOs will use default IO scheduler.

partition

• list

For a given device list all of the partitions

• showguid

For a given device list the GUID for GPT partitions

physical

• get

Get information about a physical storage device.

raid

• list

List the physical devices that compose a given logical device.

smart

• get

List Smart device parameters.

stats

• get

List the SCSI stats for SCSI Devices in the system.

uidmap

• list

Get a mapping between a device's primary UID and the alternative UIDs for that device on the system.

vaai

ats

• list

List the ATS VAAI attributes (as per SCSI standard) for the devices.

clone

• list

List the Clone VAAI attributes (as per SCSI standard) for the devices.

delete

• list

List the Delete VAAI attributes (as per SCSI standard) for the devices.

status

• get

List VAAI properties for devices currently registered with the PSA.

• set

Enable/Disable VAAI operations on local SCSI disks. (NOTE: A request to enable an operation will take effect only if the underlying device supports the VAAI operation.)

zero

• list

List the Zero VAAI attributes (as per SCSI standard) for the devices.

world

• list

Get a list of the worlds that are currently using devices on the ESX host.

path

• list

List all the SCSI paths on the system.

• set

Provide control to allow a user to modify a single path's state. This efffectively allows a user to enable or disable SCSI paths. The user is not able to change the full range of path states, but can toggle between 'active' and 'off'. Please NOTE changing the Path state on any path that is the only path to a given device is likely to fail. The VMkernel will not change the path's state if changing the state would cause an 'All paths down' state or the device is currently in use.

stats

• get

List the SCSI stats for the SCSI Paths in the system.

plugin

• list

List loaded PSA plugins on the system.

registration

• list

List modules currently registered with PSA.

• add

Register a plugin module with PSA.

• remove

UnRegister a plugin module with PSA.

filesystem

• list

List the volumes available to the host. This includes VMFS, NAS, VFAT and UFS partitions.

• automount

Request mounting of known datastores not explicitly unmounted.

• rescan

Scan storage devices for new mountable filesystems.

• mount

Connect to and mount an unmounted volume on the ESX host.

• unmount

Disconnect and unmount and existing VMFS or NAS volume. This will not delete the configuration for the volume, but will remove the volume from the list of mounted volumes.

hpp

device

• list

List the devices currently controlled by the VMware High Performance Plugin.

• set

Configure settings for an HPP device.

usermarkedssd

• list

List the devices that were marked as SSD by user.

path

• list

List the paths currently claimed by the VMware High Performance Plugin

iofilter

• list

List the iofilters installed on this host.

• enable

Enable an iofilter.

nfs

• list

List the NAS volumes currently known to the ESX host.

• add

Add a new NAS volume to the ESX Host and mount it with the given volume name.

• remove

Remove an existing NAS volume from the ESX host.

param

• get

Get the volume parameters of the NAS volumes.

• set

Set the volume parameters of the NAS volumes.

nfs41

• list

List the NFS v4.1 volumes currently known to the ESX host.

• add

Add a new NFS v4.1 volume to the ESX Host and mount it with the given volume name.

• remove

Remove an existing NFS v4.1 volume from the ESX host.

param

• get

Get the volume parameters of the NFS v4.1 volumes.

• set

Set the volume parameters of the NFS v4.1 volumes.

nmp

device

• list

List the devices currently controlled by the VMware NMP Multipath Plugin and show the SATP and PSP information associated with that device.

• set

Allow setting of the Path Selection Policy (PSP) for the given device to one of the loaded policies on the system.

path

• list

List the paths currently claimed by the VMware NMP Multipath Plugin and show the SATP and PSP information associated with that path.

psp

• list

List the Path Selection Plugins (PSP) that are currently loaded into the NMP system and display information about those PSPs

fixed

deviceconfig

• get

Allow retrieving of Fixed Path Selection Policy settings for a given device.

• set

Allow setting of the perferred path on a given device controlled by the Fixed Path Selection Policy.

generic

deviceconfig

• get

Allow retrieving of per device PSP configuration parameters.

• set

Allow setting of per device PSP configuration parameters. This command will set the configuration for the given device with whichever PSP it is currently configurated with.

pathconfig

• get

Allow retrieving of per path PSP configuration parameters.

• set

Allow setting of per path PSP configuration parameters. This command will set the configuration for the given path with whichever PSP it is currently configurated with.

roundrobin

deviceconfig

• get

Allow retrieving of Round Robin Path Selection Policy settings for a given device.

• set

Allow setting of the Round Robin path options on a given device controlled by the Round Robin Selection Policy.

satp

• list

List the Storage Array Type Plugins (SATP) that are currently loaded into the NMP system and display information about those SATPs

• set

Set the default Path Selection Policy for a given Storage Array Type Plugin (SATP).

generic

deviceconfig

• get

Allow retrieving of per device SATP configuration parameters.

• set

Allow setting of per device SATP configuration parameters. This command will set the configuration for the given device with whichever SATP it is currently configurated with.

pathconfig

• get

Allow retrieving of per path SATP configuration parameters.

• set

Allow setting of per path SATP configuration parameters. This command will set the configuration for the given path with whichever SATP it is currently configurated with.

rule

• list

List the claiming rules for Storage Array Type Plugins (SATP)

• add

Add a rule to the list of claim rules for the given SATP.

• remove

Delete a rule from the list of claim rules for the given SATP.

san

fc

• list

List attributes of all FC adapters on the system.

• reset

Perform LIP (Loop Initiation Primitive) Reset to a given FC adapter on the system.

events

• clear

Clear events for a given FC adapter on the system.

• get

Get Events for FC Devices

stats

• get

Get statistics for a given FC adapter, or all FC adapters on the system.

fcoe

• list

List attributes of all FCoE adapters on the system.

• reset

Perform LIP (Loop Initiation Primitive) Reset to a given FCoE adapter on the system.

stats

• get

Get statistics for a given FCoE adapter, or all FCoE adapters on the system.

iscsi

• list

List attributes of all Software iSCSI adapters on the system.

stats

• get

Get statistics for Software iSCSI adapter.

sas

• list

List all SAS IO Device Management devices.

• reset

Perform SAS Reset

stats

• get

List Stats for given device, or all devices.

vflash

cache

• list

List individual vflash caches.

• get

Get individual vflash cache info.

stats

• get

Get vflash cache statistics.

• reset

Reset vflash cache statistics.

device

• list

List vflash SSD devices.

module

• list

List vflash modules.

• get

Get vflash module info.

stats

• get

Get vflash module statistics

vmfs

• unmap

Reclaim the space by unmapping free blocks from VMFS Volume

• upgrade

Upgrade a VMFS3 volume to VMFS5.

extent

• list

List the VMFS extents available on the host.

host

• list

List hosts accessing a particular VMFS Volume.

lockmode

• list

List the on-disk critical section locking mode for VMFS volumes available on this host.

• set

Update the on-disk critical section locking mode for a particular VMFS Volume.

pbcache

• get

Get VMFS Pointer Block cache statistics.

• reset

Reset the VMFS Pointer Block cache statistics.

reclaim

config

• get

Get space reclamation configuration parameters

• set

Set space reclamation configuration parameters

snapshot

• list

List unresolved snapshots/replicas of VMFS volume.

• mount

Mount a snapshot/replica of a VMFS volume.

• resignature

Resignature a snapshot/replica of a VMFS volume.

extent

• list

List extents of unresolved snapshots/replicas of VMFS volume.

vvol

daemon

• unbindall

Unbind all Virtual Volumes from all VASA Providers known to this host.

protocolendpoint

• list

List the VVol Protocol EndPoints currently known to this host.

storagecontainer

• list

List VVol storage containers known to this host.

abandonedvvol

• scan

Scans the specified storage container for abandoned VVols.

vasacontext

• get

Get the VVol VASA Context (vCenter UUID).

vasaprovider

• list

List the VASA Providers registered on this host.