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9、IONAL ELECTROTECHNICAL COMMISSION W ICS 35.200 PRICE CODE ISBN 2-8318-9908-7 2 11002 ISO/IEC:2008(E) CONTENTS FOREWORD.6 INTRODUCTION.7 1 Scope.8 2 Normative references .8 3 Terms, definitions and abbreviations 8 3.1 Terms and definitions 8 3.2 Abbreviations 10 4 Document conventions .11 5 Backgroun
10、d technical information.12 5.1 Overview.12 5.2 Target port groups.12 5.3 Relationship between target port groups in SCSI and in this API .13 5.3.1 General .13 5.3.2 Symmetric and asymmetric multipath access.14 5.3.3 Logical unit affinity groups.15 5.3.4 Load balancing15 5.3.5 Model overview .16 5.4
11、Client discovery of optional behavior .18 5.4.1 General .18 5.4.2 Discovery of load balancing behavior.18 5.4.3 Client discovery of failover/failback capabilities .20 5.4.4 Client discovery of a drivers OS device file name behavior .20 5.4.5 Client discovery of auto-failback capabilities20 5.4.6 Cli
12、ent discovery of auto-probing capabilities21 5.4.7 Client discovery of support for LU assignment to target port groups.21 5.5 Events.21 5.6 API concepts.22 5.6.1 Library and plugins 22 5.6.2 OS-independent implementation22 5.6.3 Object ID .22 5.6.4 Object ID list23 6 Constants and structures23 6.1 M
13、P_WCHAR23 6.2 MP_CHAR.23 6.3 MP_BYTE .23 6.4 MP_BOOL.24 6.5 MP_XBOOL.24 6.6 MP_UINT32.24 6.7 MP_UINT64.24 6.8 MP_STATUS.24 6.9 MP_PATH_STATE 25 6.10 MP_OBJECT_VISIBILITY_FN .26 6.11 MP_OBJECT_PROPERTY_FN26 6.12 MP_OBJECT_TYPE 27 6.13 MP_OID 27 6.14 MP_OID_LIST .28 11002 ISO/IEC:2008(E) 3 6.15 MP_POR
14、T_TRANSPORT_TYPE .28 6.16 MP_ACCESS_STATE_TYPE.29 6.17 MP_LOAD_BALANCE_TYPE.29 6.18 MP_PROPRIETARY_PROPERTY .30 6.19 MP_PROPRIETARY_LOAD_BALANCE_PROPERTIES .31 6.20 MP_LOGICAL_UNIT_NAME_TYPE .31 6.21 MP_LIBRARY_PROPERTIES32 6.22 MP_AUTOFAILBACK_SUPPORT 32 6.23 MP_AUTOPROBING_SUPPORT.33 6.24 MP_PLUGI
15、N_PROPERTIES33 6.25 MP_DEVICE_PRODUCT_PROPERTIES .35 6.26 MP_MULTIPATH_LOGICAL_UNIT_PROPERTIES.36 6.27 MP_PATH_LOGICAL_UNIT_PROPERTIES.38 6.28 MP_INITIATOR_PORT_PROPERTIES 39 6.29 MP_TARGET_PORT_PROPERTIES .39 6.30 MP_TARGET_PORT_GROUP_PROPERTIES .40 6.31 MP_TPG_STATE_PAIR.40 7 APIs .41 7.1 API over
16、view .41 7.2 MP_AssignLogicalUnitToTPG42 7.3 MP_CancelOverridePath .43 7.4 MP_CompareOIDs 44 7.5 MP_DeregisterForObjectPropertyChanges 44 7.6 MP_DeregisterForObjectVisibilityChanges 45 7.7 MP_DeregisterPlugin.46 7.8 MP_DisableAutoFailback.47 7.9 MP_DisableAutoProbing47 7.10 MP_DisablePath48 7.11 MP_
17、EnableAutoFailback49 7.12 MP_EnableAutoProbing.49 7.13 MP_EnablePath 50 7.14 MP_FreeOidList 51 7.15 MP_GetAssociatedPathOidList51 7.16 MP_GetAssociatedPluginOid.52 7.17 MP_GetAssociatedTPGOidList 52 7.18 MP_GetDeviceProductOidList .53 7.19 MP_GetDeviceProductProperties 54 7.20 MP_GetInitiatorPortOid
18、List55 7.21 MP_GetInitiatorPortProperties.56 7.22 MP_GetLibraryProperties 56 7.23 MP_GetMPLuOidListFromTPG 57 7.24 MP_GetMPLogicalUnitProperties.57 7.25 MP_GetMultipathLus .58 7.26 MP_GetObjectType .59 7.27 MP_GetPathLogicalUnitProperties.60 7.28 MP_GetPluginOidList 60 7.29 MP_GetPluginProperties .6
19、1 7.30 MP_GetProprietaryLoadBalanceOidList.62 7.31 MP_GetProprietaryLoadBalanceProperties62 4 11002 ISO/IEC:2008(E) 7.32 MP_GetTargetPortGroupProperties.63 7.33 MP_GetTargetPortOidList64 7.34 MP_GetTargetPortProperties 64 7.35 MP_RegisterForObjectPropertyChanges .65 7.36 MP_RegisterForObjectVisibili
20、tyChanges66 7.37 MP_RegisterPlugin67 7.38 MP_SetLogicalUnitLoadBalanceType 68 7.39 MP_SetOverridePath.69 7.40 MP_SetPathWeight .70 7.41 MP_SetPluginLoadBalanceType70 7.42 MP_SetFailbackPollingRate 71 7.43 MP_SetProbingPollingRate .72 7.44 MP_SetProprietaryProperties 72 7.45 MP_SetTPGAccess .73 8 Imp
21、lementation compliance 74 9 Implementations .75 9.1 Backwards compatibility 75 9.2 Client usage notes 75 9.2.1 Reserved fields75 9.2.2 Event notification within a single client 75 9.2.3 Event notification and multi-threading75 9.3 Library implementation notes.75 9.3.1 Multi-threading support75 9.3.2
22、 Event notification and multi-threading75 9.3.3 Structure packing 75 9.3.4 Calling conventions .76 9.4 Plugin implementation notes76 9.4.1 Reserved fields76 9.4.2 Multi-threading support76 9.4.3 Event notification to different clients 76 9.4.4 Event notification and multi-threading76 9.4.5 Event ove
23、rhead conservation.76 9.4.6 Function names.76 Annex A (informative) Device names .77 A.1 General 77 A.2 Initiator port osDeviceName .77 A.3 Logical unit osDeviceName 77 Annex B (informative) Synthesizing target port groups.79 Annex C (informative) Transport layer multipathing80 Annex D (informative)
24、 Coding examples 81 D.1 General 81 D.2 Example of getting library properties 81 D.3 Example of getting plugin properties.81 D.4 Example of discovering path LUs associated with an MP LU 82 Annex E (informative) Library/plugin API84 Bibliography85 11002 ISO/IEC:2008(E) 5 Figure 1 Asymmetric array exam
25、ple .13 Figure 2 API Instances corresponding to asymmetric array example14 Figure 3 Relationship between various objects in the multipath model .17 Figure 4 Driver representation of a logical unit with multiple paths .18 Figure 5 APIs relative to the objects from Figure 1.42 Figure B.1 Synthetic tar
26、get port groups79 Table A.1 Names for the osDeviceName field 77 Table A.2 Names for the osDeviceName78 6 11002 ISO/IEC:2008(E) INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MULTIPATH MANAGEMENT (API) FOREWORD 1) ISO (International Organization for Standardization) and IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) form t
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38、by vote of the member bodies, and the voting results may be obtained from the address given on the second title page. This publication has been drafted in accordance with the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2. 11002 ISO/IEC:2008(E) 7 INTRODUCTION The Multipath Management application programming interface (
39、API) provides management interfaces to standard capabilities defined in ISO/IEC 14776-453 (SPC-3) and common vendor-specific extensions to the standard capabilities. The intended audience is vendors that deliver drivers that provide these capabilities. This standard relates to SCSI multipathing feat
40、ures and excludes multipathing between interconnect devices (such as Fibre Channel switches) and transport specific multipathing (such as iSCSI multiple connections per session). 8 11002 ISO/IEC:2008(E) INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MULTIPATH MANAGEMENT API 1 Scope This International Standard provides mana
41、gement interfaces to standard capabilities defined in ISO/IEC 14776-453 (SPC-3) and common vendor-specific extensions to the standard capabilities. The intended audience is vendors that deliver drivers that provide these capabilities. This standard relates to SCSI multipathing features and excludes
42、multipathing between interconnect devices (such as Fibre Channel switches) and transport specific multipathing (such as iSCSI multiple connections per session). 2 Normative references The following referenced documents are indispensable for the application of this document. For dated references, onl
43、y the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies. The provisions of the referenced specifications other than ISO/IEC, IEC, ISO and ITU documents, as identified in this clause, are valid within the context of this In
44、ternational Standard. The reference to such a specification within this International Standard does not give it any further status within ISO or IEC. In particular, it does not give the referenced specification the status of an International Standard. ISO/IEC 9899:1999, Programming languages C ISO/I
45、EC 14165-133, Information technology Fibre channel Part 133: Switch fabric-3 (FC-SW-3) ISO/IEC 14165-251, Information technology Fibre channel Part 251: Framing and signalling (FC-FS) ISO/IEC 14776-115, Information technology Small computer system interface (SCSI) Part 115: Parallel interface-5 (SPI
46、5) ISO/IEC 14776-150, Information technology Small computer system interface (SCSI) Part 150: Serial attached SCSI (SAS) ISO/IEC 14776-413, Information technology Small computer system interface (SCSI) Part 413: Architecture model-3 (SAM-3) ISO/IEC 14776-453, Information technology Small computer s
47、ystem interface (SCSI) Part 453: Primary commands-3 (SPC-3) RFC 3720, Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) NOTE Copies of IETF standards such as RFC 3720 may be obtained through the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) at http:/www.ietf.org. 3 Terms, definitions and abbreviations 3.1
48、Terms and definitions For the purposes of this document the following terms and definitions apply. 3.1.1 auto-failback capability of some multipath drivers to resume use of a path when the path transitions from unavailable to available 11002 ISO/IEC:2008(E) 9 3.1.2 auto-probing capability of some mu
49、ltipath drivers to validate operational paths that are not currently being used 3.1.3 available paths set of paths for a logical unit that may be considered for routing I/O requests NOTE For symmetric access devices, all paths are considered available. For asymmetric access devices, all paths in active target port groups are considered available. 3.1.4 device file operating system files (for instance UNIX, Linux etc.,) that facilitate communication with the systems hardware
