How to Identify the Virtual Volume name with VPD ID?

It sounds like you trying to correlate the VPD ID's presented by VPLEX through the Storage Views back to the virtual volume name.

If so, there might be a few ways to do this via CLI. Here are some commands you can look at to help you do this:

1. "export storage-view find" - This will allow you to specify a VPD ID as part of the command and it will spit out the storage view details with the volume being one of them)

VPlexcli:/clusters/cluster-1/exports> export storage-view find --volume dd_03_vol
Views exporting volume dd_03_vol: View LicoJ009 exports (4,dd_03_vol,VPD83T3:6000144000000010a0014760d64cb225,128G).

2. "export storage-view map" - You can run this command against each storage view and then aggregate the outputs to correlate the VPD IDs with the virtual volumes in the view.

VPlexcli:/> export storage-view map LicoJ013
VPD83T3:6000144000000010a0014760d64cb32c dev_sym1723_1FC_vol

3. You could probably take an output of the cluster_configdump XML file and dump it into Excel to create a table to perform lookups against - haven't done this in a while but I think all of the info is in there.

There might be a few other ways to get it and people might chime in with what they have done for either scripts or other commands. You could likely look at the virtual volumes context of the CLI since it now lists the VPD ID's and play with the wildcards in a listing to spit out both.

HTH

Choice three is probably the best. One excel macro and you could pull a list of all VPDs and their corresponding names.

Steve

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