View storage topology

Perform this task to display storage-centric view of the connection relationships

between physical hosts and storage, as well as between storage and VMs.

Restriction and guidelines

• In the three-person separation mode, only the system administrator and security auditor support this feature.

• The system administrator can view the topology diagram, view cloud resource information, and edit VM status.

• The security auditor only supports viewing the topology diagram.

• If no VM uses local storage, the topology will not be displayed. Other types of storage do not have this restriction.

Procedure

1. On the top navigation bar, click Storage. From the left navigation pane, select Storage Topo.

Parameters

• Toolbar:

○ Select : The mouse defaults to this mode, allowing you to select and drag legends in the topology.

○ Drag : Move the topology by dragging.

○ Export Image : Generate an image of the topology. To save it, right-click the image and select Save Image As.

○ Save : Save the current state of the topology.

○ Reset : Restore the modified topology to its previous state.

○ Legend : Display the names and meanings of icons in the topology.

○ Aerial View : After you click this icon, a thumbnail of the entire topology is displayed in the bottom right corner.

○ Search box: Quickly locate nodes by node name.

• Storage node: Click the icon to view storage node details.

○ Name: Name of the storage node.

○ Type: Type of file system for storage, including local directory, local directory (high-speed), LVM logical storage volume, iSCSI network