topic Re: Set-NaDiskOwner in Microsoft Virtualization Discussions

Set-NaDiskOwner

lebedevanton — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:06:44 GMT

Hi folks, I am experimenting with the powershell and I wanted to set an owner on a bunch of disks.

I have about 12 disks I want to set owner to one of the controllers, so how I can put it in a script ?

should i use a text file and just include the disk ID's there, like 0c.89 and 1c.61 etc.... and then pass the file through the Set-NaDiskOwner cmdlet ?

Thank you!

Anton

Re: Set-NaDiskOwner

fjohn — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:09:56 GMT

Who owns them now?

Yes, the -Name parameter expects a string. You could create an array and pipe that to set-nadiskowner. It's possible to be a bit more creative as well depending on what you're trying to do. Get-nadiskowner returns objects that include a -Name property, a string, which is the name of the disk. On set-nadiskowner, the -Name parameter accpts pipeling input bypropertyname...

Let's say that I add a new shelf and want to assign all the disks to a specific controller, controller1:

$controller1=get-nacontroller controller1

get-nadiskowner -OwnershipType unowned | set-nadiskowner -Controller $controller1

Or perhaps I have a shelf that came from another controller and have now attached it to controller1 and wish to take ownership of all the disks with unknown ownership and assign them to controller1:

$controller1=get-nacontroller controller1

get-nadiskowner -OwnershipType Unknown | set-nadiskowner -Controller $controller1

Re: Set-NaDiskOwner

cknight — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:18:43 GMT

Hello, Anton. You can specify the disks in various ways, including using wildcards:

All disks: Get-NaDisk | Set-NaDiskOwner $controllerName

One disk: Get-NaDisk 0c.89 | Set-NaDiskOwner $controllerName

All disks on a channel: Get-NaDisk 0c.* | Set-NaDiskOwner $controllerName

Multiple specific disks: Get-NaDisk 0c.89 1c.61 | Set-NaDiskOwner $controllerName

Unowned disks: Get-NaDiskOwner -OwnershipType unowned | Set-NaDiskOwner $controllerName

As you suggest, you could also create a text file with disk names, import that into a string array, and pipe the array into Get-NaDisk.

Re: Set-NaDiskOwner

lebedevanton — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:56:26 GMT

This is perfect, thank you

Re: Set-NaDiskOwner

OMARR1124 — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:03:56 GMT

(I am not in front of my NetApp at this time )

What would be equal to this command?

disk assign -n 8

Would this work?

Get-NADisk | Select -First 8 | Set-NaDiskOwner $controllerName

I don't want to assign all of the disks in this case.

Re: Set-NaDiskOwner

cknight — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:25:32 GMT

Yes, Omarr, that should work.