Issue with Remotely Invoking SDCLI commands with PowerShell?

n_yannios — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:04:07 GMT

We are using Windows PowerShell with remoting. We issue a PowerShell Invoke command to run SDCLI on a remote server. SDCLI DISK LIST commands work fine, however when we go to run a more complex command such as the one below to create a LUN and mount it, not all of the parameters that were passed are being interpreted correctly.

Invoke-Command -computername TEST -scriptblock { SDCLI DISK CREATE -m TEST -p N1:/vol/clientvol_aggr6001_lun_1/Testdb_LUN1 -d C:\NA_Mounts\Testdb_LUN1 -dtype dedicated -IG TEST TEST -z 65MB -rs n }

When the command is received on the remote system the command received is identical to the command that was sent, however the argument after the -z is not being interpreted correctly and we see this error from the utility.

Invalid disk size 104857600MB. Must be in range [64MB, 2002022MB].
Please enter a valid disk size.

Yet if we run powershell and PASTE (or type) the EXACT command on the remote system with the utility from a remote desktop or the console, the command works correctly.

What would cause this? We are just passing a static string?

Thanks

Nikos

Re: Issue with Remotely Invoking SDCLI commands with PowerShell?

n_yannios — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 15:17:23 GMT

After some more testing, we were able to get the command to successfully work by simply dropping the "MB" after the number and allowing it to default

invoke-command -computername TEST -scriptblock { sdcli disk create -m test -p netapp1:/vol/clientvol_aggr6001_lun_1/testdb_lun3 -d c:\netapp_mounts\testdb_lun3 -dtype dedicated -IG TEST viaRPC.21:00:00:1b:32:10:f0:a2.TEST -z 1000 }

TEST : Checking input parameters
TEST : Checking access control
TEST : Checking policies
TEST : Turning off snap scheduling
TEST : Creating the LUN
TEST : Creating a partition
TEST : Formatting the disk with NTFS
TEST : Mounting volume on the disk
UNC Path: None
LUN Path: NetApp1:/vol/clientvol_aggr6001_lun_1/testdb_lun3
Storage System: NetApp1
Storage System Path: /vol/clientvol_aggr6001_lun_1/testdb_lun3
Type:   lun
Disk serial number: W9mPNo/bO0a0
Backed by Snapshot Copy:
Shared:   No
BootOrSystem Disk: No
SCSI port: 2
Bus:   0
Target:   0
LUN:   9
Readonly: No
Size:   1004
Snapmirror Source: No
Snapvault Primary: No
Disk Partition Style: GUID Partition Table (GPT)
Clone Split Restore status: Normal
DiskID:   19
Volume Name: \\?\Volume{f11d06d0-b9bb-4617-a295-3caeff6fc0de}\
Mount points: c:\netapp_mounts\testdb_lun3\
IP Addresses: 10.146.0.10, 10.146.10.2, 10.146.4.150
The operation completed successfully.

A snippet of the code that we used to issue the remote command from C# is attached....

Nikos

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