This is one of those in-between features, I think. I'd like to have the functionality of SDCLI made available in the ONTAP powershell toolkit, or at least some other toolkit. Having to issue "dumb" commands from inside a powershell script is becoming 99% of my work now.
An example use:
Script attaches to SQL server, performs an action, drops databases, detaches LUN from machine.
To do this currently, I need to call SDCLI with the mountpoint or volume path on the SAN. If I don't have those pieces of information readily available, it becomes extremely difficult to get them. SDCLI simply outputs a text, which is not (easily) parsable like the output of any of the ONTAP API commands.
