Customer question

harrya — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 09:38:37 GMT

Customer is asking the following question. Any thoughts are appreciated. REST has already been suggested, but the customer is focused on PS.

Is there a PS cmdlet equiv to the following cli cmds:

volume flexcache create -vserver eu-vfilerc-01 -volume amc_cifs_prd_apps01 -origin-volume cifs_prd_apps01 -size 50GB -origin-vserver am-vfilerc-01 -aggr-list aggr1_sata_19

flexcache prepopulate start -cache-vserver eu-vfilerc-01 -cache-volume amc_cifs_prd_apps01 -path-list <path>

We can’t see anything obvious in the PS toolkit help.

Re: Customer question

mbeattie — Thu, 02 May 2024 04:45:13 GMT

Hi,

You can use Invoke-NcSystemApi if there is no CmdLet. Here's an example:

Param( [Parameter(Mandatory = $True, HelpMessage = "The ONTAP Cluster Hostname, FQDN or IP Address")] [String]$Cluster, [Parameter(Mandatory = $True, HelpMessage = "The Aggregate Name")] [String]$Aggregate, [Parameter(Mandatory = $True, HelpMessage = "The Vserver Name")] [String]$Vserver, [Parameter(Mandatory = $True, HelpMessage = "The Volume Name")] [String]$Volume, [Parameter(Mandatory = $True, HelpMessage = "The Volume Size in GigaBytes")] [String]$SizeGB, [Parameter(Mandatory = $True, HelpMessage = "The Origin Vserver Name")] [String]$OriginVserver, [Parameter(Mandatory = $True, HelpMessage = "The Origin Volume Name")] [String]$OriginVolume, [Parameter(Mandatory = $True, HelpMessage = "The Credential to authenticate to the ONTAP cluster")] [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()] [System.Management.Automation.PSCredential]$Credential ) #'------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #'Connect to the cluster. #'------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try{ Connect-NcController -Name $Cluster -ZapiCall -Credential $Credential -ErrorAction Stop }Catch{ Write-Warning -Message $("Failed connecting to cluster ""$Cluster"". Error " + $_.Exception.Message) Exit -1 } #'------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #'Create a flexcache volume. #'------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Array]$command = $("set advanced;volume flexcache create -vserver $Vserver -volume $Volume -origin-volume $OriginVolume -size " + $($SizeGB + 'GB') + " -origin-vserver $OriginVserver -aggr-list $Aggregate") Try{ $api = $("<system-cli><args><arg>" + ($command -join "</arg><arg>") + "</arg></args></system-cli>") Write-Host $("Executed Command`: " + $([String]::Join(" ", $command))) $response = Invoke-NcSystemApi -Request $api -ErrorAction Stop }Catch{ Write-Warning -Message $("Failed Executing Command`: " + $([String]::Join(" ", $command))) Break; } #'------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hope that helps

/Matt

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