System and method for determining storage resources of a virtual machine in a virtual server environment

摘要

Described herein are systems and methods for determining relationships of storage resources allocated for use to a virtual machine (VM) in a virtual server environment. In some embodiments, a VM storage resource module residing and executing on a server may be configured to determine one or more storage resources (residing on one or more storage systems) of one or more VMs. In these embodiments, the VM storage resource module may determine storage resource information describing the storage resources used by a VM. The storage resource information may then be used to locate and access the storage resources residing on the one or more storage systems for various monitoring, maintenance, or optimizing purposes.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
at least one processor; memory operatively coupled to the at least one processor, the memory comprising a VM storage resource engine for execution by the at least one processor, the VM storage resource engine to
determine at least one virtual storage component allocated to a first virtual machine (VM) identified by a first VM identifier, wherein the VM is hosted on a server, each virtual storage component is associated with virtual storage information comprising a device path or a device identifier, and the virtual storage information is produced by the server for accessing, by the first VM, the at least one virtual storage component;determine at least one storage resource hosted by at least one storage system and is available to the server, each storage resource is associated with an available device identifier and an available device path;determine storage resource information for the at least one storage resource based at least partially on the available device identifier by at least sending a device-access query to the at least one storage resource identified by the available device identifier, the storage resource information for the at least one storage resource comprising information for locating the at least one storage resource on the at least one storage system; andstore the storage resource information for the at least one storage resource in at least one virtual storage component entry of a virtual storage component data structure, after determining that the available device identifier or the available device path for the at least one storage resource matches the virtual storage information for the at least one virtual storage component, the at least one virtual storage component entry comprising the first VM identifier, the virtual storage information, and the storage resource information.