Dynamic hierarchical navigation schemes for storage management systems

A non-transitory, machine readable storage medium having stored thereon instructions for performing a method for managing physical and logical elements of a storage system represented by storage objects, comprising machine executable code which when executed by at least one machine, causes the machine to:

• receive a user-defined navigation preference to view an attribute of a second storage object representing a second element of the storage system from a navigation screen defined for a first storage object representing a first element of the storage system;
• update a mapping data structure by storing a hierarchical relationship of the second storage object, based on the user-defined navigation preference;
• associate the hierarchical relationship with a feature link and a tag;
• and
• present the tag at the navigation screen defined for the first storage object, where the tag identifies the feature link and the feature link allows navigation to a second navigation screen defined for the attribute of the second storage object based on the stored hierarchical relationship of the second storage object.

A system comprising:

• a memory containing machine readable medium comprising machine executable code having stored thereon instructions;
• and a processor module coupled to the memory, the processor module configured to execute the machine executable code to:
• receive a user-defined navigation preference to view an attribute of a second storage object representing a second element of a storage system from a navigation screen defined for a first storage object representing a first element of the storage system;
• update a mapping data structure by storing a hierarchical relationship of the second storage object, based on the user-defined navigation preference;
• associate the hierarchical relationship with a feature link and a tag;
• and
• present the tag at the navigation screen defined for the first storage object, where the tag identifies the feature link and the feature link allows navigation to a second navigation screen defined for the attribute of the second storage object based on the stored hierarchical relationship of the second storage object.