Centralized management center for managing storage services

A non-transitory, machine readable storage medium having stored thereon instructions for performing a method, comprising machine executable code which when executed by at least one machine, causes the machine to:

• obtain network interface information by a processor executable plugin executed by a computing device from a storage system node managing stored information;
• filter logical interface information based on a protocol used by a processor executable application that uses the storage system node to store information;
• obtain aliases for the logical interface information from a domain name server, when available;
• and
• store the filtered logical interface information and associated aliases at a network identifier cache managed by the plugin;
• wherein the network identifier cache is used by the plugin to verify network interface information as associated with a data path for a data container stored at a storage device.

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, configured to execute the machine executable code of a plugin to:
• obtain network interface information from a storage system node managing stored information;
• filter logical interface information based on a protocol used by a processor executable application that uses the storage system node to store information;
• obtain aliases for the logical interface information from a domain name server, when available;
• and
• store the filtered logical interface information and associated aliases at a network identifier cache managed by the plugin;
• wherein the network identifier cache is used by the plugin to verify network interface information as associated with a data path for a data container stored at a storage device.