Solved: How to get Volume Type using Powershell Toolkit

JimRobertson · ‎2017-04-05

From the OnTap CLI, I can run this command to find out my volume type (it will be either RW or DP (for data protection)):

vol show -vserver VserverName -volume VolumeName -fields vserver,volume,state,type

vserver volume state type

-------- -------- ------ ----

VserverName VolumeName online RW

I’d think that the Get-NcVol command should be able to retrieve that data, but that doesn’t seem to be the case:

PS E:\Powershell> Get-NcVol -Name $Mnemonic* -VServer VserverName | Select NcController,Vserver,Name,State,Type

NcController : ControllerName

Vserver : VserverName

Name : VolumeName

State : online

Type :

The Type just comes back blank. I think because it’s not actually an available Property of the volume.

PS E:\Powershell> Get-NcVol | Get-Member -MemberType Properties

TypeName: DataONTAP.C.Types.Volume.VolumeAttributes

Name MemberType Definition

---- ---------- ----------

Name Property string Name {get;set;}

NcController Property NetApp.Ontapi.Filer.C.NcController NcController {get;set;}

Volume64bitUpgradeAttributes Property DataONTAP.C.Types.Volume.Volume64bitUpgradeAttributes Volume64bitUpgradeAttributes {get;set;}

VolumeAntivirusAttributes Property DataONTAP.C.Types.Volume.VolumeAntivirusAttributes VolumeAntivirusAttributes {get;set;}

VolumeAutobalanceAttributes Property DataONTAP.C.Types.Volume.VolumeAutobalanceAttributes VolumeAutobalanceAttributes {get;set;}

VolumeAutosizeAttributes Property DataONTAP.C.Types.Volume.VolumeAutosizeAttributes VolumeAutosizeAttributes {get;set;}

VolumeCloneAttributes Property DataONTAP.C.Types.Volume.VolumeCloneAttributes VolumeCloneAttributes {get;set;}

VolumeDirectoryAttributes Property DataONTAP.C.Types.Volume.VolumeDirectoryAttributes VolumeDirectoryAttributes {get;set;}

VolumeExportAttributes Property DataONTAP.C.Types.Volume.VolumeExportAttributes VolumeExportAttributes {get;set;}

VolumeFlexcacheAttributes Property DataONTAP.C.Types.Volume.VolumeFlexcacheAttributes VolumeFlexcacheAttributes {get;set;}

VolumeHybridCacheAttributes Property DataONTAP.C.Types.Volume.VolumeHybridCacheAttributes VolumeHybridCacheAttributes {get;set;}

VolumeIdAttributes Property DataONTAP.C.Types.Volume.VolumeIdAttributes VolumeIdAttributes {get;set;}

VolumeInfinitevolAttributes Property DataONTAP.C.Types.Volume.VolumeInfinitevolAttributes VolumeInfinitevolAttributes {get;set;}

VolumeInodeAttributes Property DataONTAP.C.Types.Volume.VolumeInodeAttributes VolumeInodeAttributes {get;set;}

VolumeLanguageAttributes Property DataONTAP.C.Types.Volume.VolumeLanguageAttributes VolumeLanguageAttributes {get;set;}

VolumeMirrorAttributes Property DataONTAP.C.Types.Volume.VolumeMirrorAttributes VolumeMirrorAttributes {get;set;}

VolumePerformanceAttributes Property DataONTAP.C.Types.Volume.VolumePerformanceAttributes VolumePerformanceAttributes {get;set;}

VolumeQosAttributes Property DataONTAP.C.Types.Volume.VolumeQosAttributes VolumeQosAttributes {get;set;}

VolumeSecurityAttributes Property DataONTAP.C.Types.Volume.VolumeSecurityAttributes VolumeSecurityAttributes {get;set;}

VolumeSisAttributes Property DataONTAP.C.Types.Volume.VolumeSisAttributes VolumeSisAttributes {get;set;}

VolumeSnapshotAttributes Property DataONTAP.C.Types.Volume.VolumeSnapshotAttributes VolumeSnapshotAttributes {get;set;}

VolumeSnapshotAutodeleteAttributes Property DataONTAP.C.Types.Volume.VolumeSnapshotAutodeleteAttributes VolumeSnapshotAutodeleteAttributes {get;set;}

VolumeSpaceAttributes Property DataONTAP.C.Types.Volume.VolumeSpaceAttributes VolumeSpaceAttributes {get;set;}

VolumeStateAttributes Property DataONTAP.C.Types.Volume.VolumeStateAttributes VolumeStateAttributes {get;set;}

VolumeStripingAttributes Property DataONTAP.C.Types.Volume.VolumeStripingAttributes VolumeStripingAttributes {get;set;}

VolumeTransitionAttributes Property DataONTAP.C.Types.Volume.VolumeTransitionAttributes VolumeTransitionAttributes {get;set;}

VolumeVmAlignAttributes Property DataONTAP.C.Types.Volume.VolumeVmAlignAttributes VolumeVmAlignAttributes {get;set;}

Vserver Property string Vserver {get;set;}

Aggregate ScriptProperty System.Object Aggregate {get=try { $this.VolumeIdAttributes.ContainingAggregateName } catch [Exception] { $null };set=if($this.Vo...

Available ScriptProperty System.Object Available {get=try { $this.VolumeSpaceAttributes.SizeAvailable} catch [Exception] { $null };set=if($this.VolumeSpac...

Dedupe ScriptProperty System.Object Dedupe {get=try { $this.VolumeSisAttributes.IsSisVolume } catch [Exception] { $null };set=if($this.VolumeSisAttribu...

FilesTotal ScriptProperty System.Object FilesTotal {get=try { $this.VolumeInodeAttributes.FilesTotal } catch [Exception] { $null };set=if($this.VolumeInode...

FilesUsed ScriptProperty System.Object FilesUsed {get=try { $this.VolumeInodeAttributes.FilesUsed } catch [Exception] { $null };set=if($this.VolumeInodeAt...

IsInfiniteVolume ScriptProperty System.Object IsInfiniteVolume {get=try { if( $this.VolumeIdAttributes.Style -eq 'infinitevol' ) { $true } else { $false } } catc...

JunctionPath ScriptProperty System.Object JunctionPath {get=try { $this.VolumeIdAttributes.JunctionPath } catch [Exception] { $null };set=if($this.VolumeIdAt...

State ScriptProperty System.Object State {get=try { $this.VolumeStateAttributes.State } catch [Exception] { $null };set=if($this.VolumeStateAttributes...

TotalSize ScriptProperty System.Object TotalSize {get=try { $this.VolumeSpaceAttributes.Size } catch [Exception] { $null };set=if($this.VolumeSpaceAttribu...

Used ScriptProperty System.Object Used {get=try { $this.VolumeSpaceAttributes.PercentageSizeUsed } catch [Exception] { $null };set=if($this.VolumeSpa...

Does anyone know any other tricks to pull that info back through Powershell?
Other than using the Invoke-NcSsh command that is… the return data from that is such a pain to deal with.

asulliva · ‎2017-04-05

Just to expand on what @mbeattie posted a bit, you can get the same info as the CLI using this bit of script:

Get-NcVol | Select Vserver,Name,State,@{ 'Name' = 'Type'; 'Expression' = { $_.VolumeIdAttributes.Type } }

Hope that helps.

Andrew

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mbeattie · ‎2017-04-05

Hi Jim,

Are these the droids you are looking for?

PS C:\> Import-Module DataONTAP
PS C:\> $credentials = Get-Credential -Credential admin
PS C:\> Connect-NcController -Name cluster1 -HTTPS -Credential $credentials | Out-Null
PS C:\> $volume = Get-NcVol -Vserver vserver1 -Name "volume1"
PS C:\> $volume.VolumeIdAttributes.Type
rw

/Matt

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JimRobertson · ‎2017-04-06

Yes, those are indeed the droids I was looking for! Thank you so much!

I did mark asulliva's follow-up as the accepted solution though, because he answered my follow-up question before I asked it 🙂 I was trying to figure out how to display those attributes along with the others, and that worked quite nicely.

Thanks everyone for your help!

asulliva · ‎2017-04-05

Just to expand on what @mbeattie posted a bit, you can get the same info as the CLI using this bit of script:

Get-NcVol | Select Vserver,Name,State,@{ 'Name' = 'Type'; 'Expression' = { $_.VolumeIdAttributes.Type } }

Hope that helps.

Andrew

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JGPSHNTAP · ‎2017-04-06

^^

My response as well.

esxi · ‎2018-03-31

Thanks

How can i set security style ?

esxi · ‎2018-03-31

i know its VolumeSecurityAttributes but then how to get the dump for all volues is not clear

JimRobertson · ‎2018-05-01

For setting the security style, this worked for me:

$volume.VolumeSecurityAttributes.Sytle = "unix"

To get a list of the security type of all volumes:

Get-NcVol | Select Vserver,Name,State,@{ 'Name' = 'Type'; 'Expression' = { $_.VolumeSecurityAttributes.Type } }

Dinesh_83 · ‎2020-05-06

With Powershell command , It does not list Security style I am getting type as blank

Get-NcVol | Select Vserver,Name,State,@{ 'Name' = 'Type'; 'Expression' = { $_.VolumeSecurityAttributes.Type } }

JimRobertson · ‎2020-05-07

Not sure if this changed at some point or what, but the property is actually Style, not Type. So, try this:

Get-NcVol | Select Vserver,Name,State,@{ 'Name' = 'Style'; 'Expression' = { $_.VolumeSecurityAttributes.Style } }

Also, for future troubleshooting, you can list out all the properties of an item and their values like this:

$Vol = Get-NcVol VolName
$Vol.VolumeSecurityAttributes | Select-Object -Property *

Dinesh_83 · ‎2020-05-11

Thanks this works 🙂

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