Hi teamassociated, I hope it helps. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w 

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

my %vhosts;
my $host;

#open (LSMAP, "-|", "/usr/ios/cli/ioscli lsmap -all") or die $!;
while (defined(my $lsm = <DATA>)) {
    if ($lsm =~ /^(vhost\d+)/) {
        $host = $1
    }
    if ($lsm =~ /^Backing device\s+([\w\.]+)/) {
        $vhosts{$host} = [] unless defined $vhosts{$host};
        push $vhosts{$host}, $1;
    }
}

print Dumper( \%vhosts ) . "\n";


__DATA__
SVSA            Physloc                                      Client Pa
+rtition ID
--------------- -------------------------------------------- ---------
+---------
vhost0          U9117.MMD.218A8B7-V1-C2                      0x0000000
+b

VTD                   vtscsi0
Status                Available
LUN                   0x8100000000000000
Backing device        l02duapofdev_r1.58ff94782d7c325acc49a8dd9c04bb1e
Physloc
Mirrored              N/A

VTD                   vtscsi1
Status                Available
LUN                   0x8200000000000000
Backing device        l02duapofdev_b1.0ee86903d4951ce38a9b691b322ff1d2
Physloc
Mirrored              N/A

SVSA            Physloc                                      Client Pa
+rtition ID
--------------- -------------------------------------------- ---------
+---------
-------------------------------------------- ------------------
vhost3          U9117.MMD.218A8B7-V1-C14                     0x0000000
+0

VTD                   NO VIRTUAL TARGET DEVICE FOUND

SVSA            Physloc                                      Client Pa
+rtition ID
--------------- -------------------------------------------- ---------
+---------
vhost5          U9117.MMD.218A8B7-V1-C16                     0x0000000
+7

VTD                   vtscsi22
Status                Available
LUN                   0x8100000000000000
Backing device        l02duapofqa_r1.4746343ea4f12fe1092615c8734d9844
Physloc
Mirrored              N/A

VTD                   vtscsi23
Status                Available
LUN                   0x8200000000000000
Backing device        l02duapofqa1_d1.449583501d812f69e6189ea7f4a29e06
Physloc
Mirrored              N/A

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