What are the ViPR naming conventions?

The current naming conventions for masking view, port group, storage group, initiator group & zoning are as follows:

Masking Views
ViPR creates masking views with names that look like one of the following depending on the export operation attempted.

_ _ => Cluster Per-Host Exclusive Storage
_ => Cluster Shared Storage
_ => Host (non-Cluster) storage

_ => Special cases like RP/VPLEX storage back-end storage

Storage group

_CSG: parent storage group (CSG: cascaded storage group) – Fixed in 2.0
_SG_NonFast: child storage group with no fast policies
_SG_ : child storage group with specific fast policy

Initiator group

_CIG: parent cascaded initiator group
_IG: child initiator group. Prefixed with hostname as there can be multiple child IGs for different hosts.

Port group

_PG: port group

: if you are exporting UI this will be automatically generated in this format: “ - ”

Zoning

The name is composed of the following fields separated by underscores:

1. The prefix "SDS"
2. Hostname (maximum 32 characters)
3. The last twelve characters of the WWPN of the Initiator (without colons, upper case)
4. The last four digits of the storage array serial number.
5. The storage array port name (maximum 9 characters) (nothing but alphanumeric characters).