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Question on new query syntax of ONTAP cmdlets

WCMNETAPP — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:40:51 GMT

I'm a huge fan of the new concise query syntax (eg Get-NcVol -Query @{TotalSize="<$(700GB)"}) but what is the equivalent, please, for the -Attributes argument (to limit the amount of data returned)?

At the moment, I'm putting (eg):

$attrs = Get-NcVol -Template

Initialize-NcObjectProperty -Object $attrs -Name VolumeSpaceAttributes

$attrs.VolumeSpaceAttributes.Size = ""

get-ncvol -query @{"TotalSize"="<$(700GB)"} -Attributes $attrs

to show only the "Size" attribute.

Regards,

Richard.

Re: Question on new query syntax of ONTAP cmdlets

beam — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 16:43:06 GMT

Hi Richard,

You can use the same syntax, just set the desired attributes to empty strings. For example:

PS C:\Users\SBeam> Get-NcVol -Query @{"TotalSize"="<$(700gb)"} -Attributes @{"VolumeSpaceAttributes"=@{"Size"=""}}

Name State TotalSize Used Available Dedupe Aggregate Vserver

---- ----- --------- ---- --------- ------ --------- -------

beam01_root_vol 20.0 MB beam01

clusterdisks 400.0 GB beam01

ds4 500.0 GB beam01

powershell 400.0 GB beam01

testvol 12.0 GB beam01

Thanks,

Steven

Re: Question on new query syntax of ONTAP cmdlets

WCMNETAPP — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 10:31:31 GMT

Steven,

Many thanks for that.

Would be good to have some examples of this in the "Making the most ..." document as I'm sure "most" scripts only need to "see" a small subset of the available data (and so limiting the amount of data in this way would be a win all round).

Regards,

Richard.