A target port represents an instance of an endpoint in a storage subsystem with associated properties for showing and hiding virtual disks. Fibre Channel, Serial Attached SCSI, or iSCSI ports within a storage subsystem controller are all examples of target ports.
'This field is the node identifier / address. For Fibre Channel networks, this field should be the World-Wide Name (WWN) for the port, formatted as a hexadecimal string (16 characters long), with the most significant byte first. For example, a WWN address of 01:23:45:67:89:AB:CD:EF should be represented as 0123456789ABCDEF. For iSCSI networks, this field should be the IQN.'
NodeAddress property is in 1 class (MSFT_TargetPort) of ROOT\Microsoft\Windows\Storage\ms_409 and in 3 namespaces
'Indicates the specific mode currently enabled for the port. If the port is logged in, this will be the negotiated port type. Otherwise, the configured port type will be reported.'
'Denotes the role of this controller port. For iSCSI, this port must act as either a target or an initiator endpoint. Other transports allow a port to act as both an initiator and a target.'
Values
['Unknown', 'Initiator', 'Target', 'Both Initiator and Target']
Role property is in 1 class (MSFT_TargetPort) of ROOT\Microsoft\Windows\Storage\ms_409 and in 11 namespaces
'The current bandwidth of the port in bits per second. For ports that vary in bandwidth or for those where no accurate estimation can be made, this property should contain the nominal bandwidth for the port.'
Units
'bits/sec'
Speed property is in 1 class (MSFT_TargetPort) of ROOT\Microsoft\Windows\Storage\ms_409 and in 12 namespaces
'In some circumstances, a target port may be identifiable as a front-end or back-end port. For example: a storage array might have back-end ports to communicate with physical disks, and front-end ports to communicate with hosts. If there is no restriction on the use of the port, then the value should be set to 4 - 'Not restricted'.'
'ObjectId is a mandatory property that is used to opaquely and uniquely identify an instance of a class. ObjectIds must be unique within the scope of the management server (which is hosting the provider). The ObjectId is created and maintained for use of the Storage Management Providers and their clients to track instances of objects. If an object is visible through two different paths (for example: there are two separate Storage Management Providers that point to the same storage subsystem) then the same object may appear with two different ObjectIds. For determining if two object instances are the same object, refer to the UniqueId property.'
'PassThroughIds is a comma-separated list of all implementation specific keys. It is used by storage management applications to access the vendor proprietary object model. This field should be in the form: key1='value1',key2='value2'.'
'UniqueId is a mandatory property that is used to uniquely identify a logical instance of a storage subsystem's object. This value must be the same for an object viewed by two or more provider instances (even if they are running on seperate management servers). UniqueId can be any globally unique, opaque value unless otherwise specified by a derived class.'
'A target port represents an instance of an endpoint in a storage subsystem with associated properties for showing and hiding virtual disks. Fibre Channel, Serial Attached SCSI, or iSCSI ports within a storage subsystem controller are all examples of target ports.'