topic Re: Global replication throttle cmdlet in Microsoft Virtualization Discussions

Global replication throttle cmdlet

JGPSHNTAP — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:31:23 GMT

I've been looking through the cmdlets for a global replication throttle option and i've come up empty. As we all know, there is no throttling schedule 'yet' on Ontap, so the idea I had was to just loop the controllers through a powershell script to turn replication on and off on a set schedule.

I saw that you can do it per line with Invoke-NaSnapmirrorThrottle. That's not what we are looking for.

Thanks

Re: Global replication throttle cmdlet

nick_barton — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:44:00 GMT

Josh,

You can accomplish what you are trying to do with the Set-NaOption replication.throttle.enable on. You can also use Get-NaOption to do a check in your script to see if it is on or off. Alternatively you can always use the Invoke-Nassh to pass cli commands directly to the NetApp when you can't find a commandlet to do the job, i.e. (assuming you have already established a controller connection if not you can put controller name and credentials into the invoke command) Invoke-Nassh "options replication.throttle.enable on/off".

I encourage everyone if/when they have to time to just import the module via interactive powershell and issue a Get-Command | Select-String Na just to have a look at all the DataOnTAP commandlets available. From there you can issue a Get-Help commandlet command for more information.

Hope this helps. Good luck.

-Nick Barton

Re: Global replication throttle cmdlet

cknight — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:46:44 GMT

Thanks, Nick. I would only add that you can also use Get-NaHelp and Get-NcHelp to get a little more insight on the Data ONTAP cmdlets available, organized by API, API category, etc.

Re: Global replication throttle cmdlet

JGPSHNTAP — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:38:54 GMT

Thx guys. I ran show-nahelp and search on the cmdlets titles only for replication. I shoulda dug deeper for the options. I will play with the cmdlet tomorrow for sure.

I plan on looping controllers through a scheduled task to turn it on and off. I will repost.

Thx

Re: Global replication throttle cmdlet

JGPSHNTAP — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:55:22 GMT

OK, so here is the finished code. I wanted to be able to have one script and pass multiple arguments into it so we can schedule a task.

To launch scheduled task "powershell.exe script.ps1 input1 input1 Or within powershell .\script.ps1 input1 input2

It's simple, but hopefully this will help someone else as well

[Code]

Param(

$input1,

$input2

)

## Import DataonTap

Import-Module Dataontap

$hostfile = $input1

gc $hostfile | % {

$C = Connect-NaController $_ #

Set-NaOption replication.throttle.enable $input2

}

[/code]