The present invention provides a system and method for inband management
of a virtual disk. A novel volume information command, which is a
vendor-specific SCSI command, is sent by a client to a storage appliance,
in response, generates a data structure containing various path and
networking data associated with a vdisk. This data structure is then
returned to the requesting client via a SCSI connection. A client may
then utilize the returned information for generating snapshots or other
data integrity/backup features offered by the storage appliance.