In Working with SnapMirror Part I, we took a whirlwind tour of the Data ONTAP PowerShell Toolkit SnapMirror cmdlets. In Part II, I will show how to work with multiple transfers in your scripts. Without further ado, let’s get started.
From the basic setup (run the Automated Provisioning script on a pair of simulators) the first thing you need to do is enable SnapMirror. You only need to do that once on each filer. You can do that with the Enable-NaSnapMirror cmdlet:
Enable-nasnapmirror –Controller $SIM1
Enable-Nasnapmirror –Controller $SIM2
Next, you need to set SnapMirror.access to allow the two controllers to initiate transfers. You only need to make changes to snapmirror.access when you want to add relationships for additional controllers. Since I only have two simulators, and they reside in Hyper-V on my laptop, I’ll go ahead and set that to “ALL”:
Set-naoption –controller $SIM1 snapmirror.access ALL
Set-naoption –controller $SIM2 snapmirror.access ALL
Now we’re ready. I want to restrict volumes 1-4, initialize the SnapMirror transfers, and then report the status:
Connect-nacontroller SIM2; get-navol | ? {$_.ContainingAggregate -eq "aggr1"} | set-navol -Restricted | foreach-object{$src="SIM1:"+$_.Name; $Dest="SIM2:"+$_.Name; Invoke-NaSnapMirrorInitialize -Source $Src -Destination $Dest};get-nasnapmirror
First, I connect to the destination; SIM2. In the Data ONTAP PowerShell Toolkit, connections are transitive; once I mention one, I’ll keep working with the same controller until I mention another. Also, as a programmatic shortcut, you can put multiple separate commands on the same line without piping them by separating them with a semicolon.
After I connect, it’s time to form my pipeline. I get the volume collection from SIM2 and pass it to a where filter so that I am only working with the volumes in aggr1. I then restrict the destination volumes. I pipe the resulting object collection through a foreach-object statement, forming the source and destination parameters for the Invoke-nasnapmirrorinitialize and then invoking the command for each volume in my collection. Last but not least, I do a get-nasnapmirror to get the status of the initializations.
Happy Scripting
J
