Accelerate Data ONTAP SMI-S Agent 5.1 discovery process in SCVMM 2012 R2 using PowerShell Scheduled Job.

[vinith]

SCVMM 2012 R2 polls "Windows Standard Storage management service" every 2 hours to update its Database, you can verify this behaviour by analyzing the "Reads Storage Provider" job in SCVMM Jobs pane.

We can see below that the Read-SCStorageProvider cmdlet retrieves updated information from the storage provider including array, pool,and logical unit information exposed by the SMI-S provider every two hours.

Now if you need to fasten up this pooling process, you can create a scheduled job using powershell scheduled jobs "PSScheduledjob" module and fasten up the discovery process. Copy paste the below snippet in PowerShell - "Run as Administrator Mode".

#You can create scheduled tasks very easily if you have PowerShell v3 and above .
# Creates a scheduled job immediately which runs every 10 minutes
$trigger = New-JobTrigger -Once -At (Get-Date) -RepetitionInterval (New-TimeSpan -Minutes 10) -RepetitionDuration ([TimeSpan]::MaxValue)
Register-ScheduledJob -Name ReadStorageProvider -Trigger $trigger -ScriptBlock {
 <#
.DESCRIPTION
 Following snippet runs the Read-SCStorageProvider cmdlet which retrieves updated information from the storage provider including array, pool,and logical unit information exposed by the SMI-S provider every 10 minutes
 #>
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  Get-SCStorageProvider | Read-SCStorageProvider
 } 
 #After i Run this script on my elevated powershell prompt i was able to see the Job created in task scheduler under "TaskSchedulerLibrary\Microsoft\Windows\powershell\scheduledjobs"

Next wait for 10 minutes and verify that the job starts as scheduled every 10 minutes in SCVMM - Jobs pane.

I hope that you have enjoyed this blog entry  and have found this information helpful.

Good Luck !

Thanks,

Vinith