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SnapCenter: add-smresource cmdlet syntax for LUNs in Qtrees for the storage plugin

Matthias_Dietermann — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:04:42 GMT

Hi there,

I am looking for help with the add-smresource cmdlet for the Storage community plugin:

We want to add resources of type "StorageResource" (coming from the "Storage" custom plugin) to SnapCenter.
We want to use the add-smresource plugin. We succeeded with a LUN (UN-Path svm:/vol/lun) that is NOT in a qtree:
:>add-smresource -hostname 'host' -resourcename 'test' -plugincode Storage -resourcetype StorageResource
-StorageFootPrint (@{"LunName"="lun";"VolumeName"="vol";"StorageSystem"="svm"})

Does anybody know the correct syntax when the LUN resides in a qtree? Example LUN-Path:
svm:/vol/qtree/lun
We tried many combinations of the storage footprint but always got an error.

Any help and hint woul be great,

Matthias

Re: SnapCenter: add-smresource cmdlet syntax for LUNs in Qtrees for the storage plugin

Mjizzini — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 07:15:37 GMT

The path will be /vol/vol-name/qtree-name/lun-name

LUN show

{ -path <path> - LUN PathSpecifies the path of the new LUN. The LUN path cannot contain any files. Examples of correct LUN paths are /vol/vol1/lun1 and /vol/vol1/qtree1/lun1.

Re: SnapCenter: add-smresource cmdlet syntax for LUNs in Qtrees for the storage plugin

Matthias_Dietermann — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 18:10:07 GMT

Hi, and thanks for the reply!

In this case it turned out that we encountered a "bug" in SC:

https://kb.netapp.com/Advice_and_Troubleshooting/Data_Protection_and_Security/SnapCenter/Add-SMResource_from_SnapCenter_Powershell_for_the_custom_Storage_plugin_fails

In the SC database the resource has to be changed from "Storage Resource" to "StorageResource" (remove the Blank).
And then we had to replace "LunName"="a/u.lun";" with "LunName"="a\u.lun";" (replace Slash with BackSlash) for this specific resource.
After these two one character changes the add-smresource cmdlet works for the StoragePlugin.