ESXi - 6.7 storage

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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

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