Data ONTAP PowerShell Toolkit - HOWTO: Automate Provisioning

[fjohn]

You can use the Data ONTAP PowerShell Toolkit to automate many administrative tasks.  In this example, I provision an ONTAP simulator:

Import-module DataONTAP

$SIM1=Connect-NaController SIM1

Add-nalicense -Codes GWNTKCL,BCJEAZL,ELNRLTG,MTVVGAF,NAZOMKC,NQBYFJJ,DFVXFJJ,PVOIVFK,PDXMQMI

set-naoption wafl.optimize_write_once off

New-NaAggr aggr1 -DiskCount 8

do { $aggr; $aggr=get-naaggr aggr1} until ($aggr.State -eq "online")

Set-NaSnapshotReserve aggr1 0 -Aggregate

foreach ($VOL in @("vol1", "vol2", "vol3", "vol4"))

{

                New-NaVol $VOL aggr1 1g

                set-navoloption $VOL nosnap on

                set-navoloption $VOL no_atime_update yes

                set-navoloption $VOL fractional_reserve 0

                set-nasnapshotreserve  $VOL 0

                set-nasnapshotschedule $VOL -Weeks 0 -Days 0 -Hours 0

                get-nasnapshot $VOL | remove-nasnapshot

}

Enable-NaIscsi

First, I connect to the filer.  Connections in the toolkit are transitive, so I don't need to specify the filer again unless I want to start woking with a different one (you can work with more than one at the same time in your scripts).  Next, I add some licenses.  I then set a WAFL option.  After that I create an aggregate.  I then loop waiting for the newly created aggregate to come online.

At that point I remove the aggregate snapshot reserve and proceed to my foreach statement.  In the foreach statement, I create four volumes and set various options and schedules.  Last but not least, I enable iSCSI.  It take about a minute for the script to complete.

John