Create an ScVolume object in Powershell?

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Hi,

I am writing a script that should display all snpshots created on a volume. The user should select one of them and then th§e script should create a ViewVolume based on that selection. (I have a consistensy group so I need 2 volumes to be mounted, one Data volume and one Log volume)

I have used Grid-view to create display the list of snapshots and let the user select which snapshot to use.

But the result of the grid-view output is that the variable becomes a:

$SnapshotD.GetType()

IsPublic IsSerial Name BaseType
-------- -------- ---- --------
True False PSCustomObject System.Object

Because of that I am not able to use this variable type when I want to continue to work with it towards DELL Storage Manager.

So I wounder how I can type so that the result of grid-view comes out as a ScVolume type object (see example here):

$VolumeL.GetType()

IsPublic IsSerial Name BaseType
-------- -------- ---- --------
True False ScVolume DellStorage.Api.Config.DellStorageApiBaseStorageCenterObject

My script now looks like this:

$ConnName = "DSMDC"
$ScName = "´compellent name"
$ScVolumeFolderPath = "/volumefolderpath/"
$VolumeNameD = "volumename 1"
$VolumeNameL = "volumename 2"

$VolumeD = Get-DellScVolume -ConnectionName $ConnName `
-ScName $ScName `
-VolumeFolderPath $ScVolumeFolderPath `
-Name $VolumeNameD

$VolumeL = Get-DellScVolume -ConnectionName $ConnName `
-ScName $ScName `
-VolumeFolderPath $ScVolumeFolderPath `
-Name $VolumeNameL

$SnapshotD =Get-DellScReplay -ConnectionName $ConnName `
-ScName $ScName `
-CreateVolume $VolumeD `
-Active:$false `
| Sort-Object -Descending { [datetime]$_.FreezeTime }, `
{ [UInt32] ( $_.GlobalIndex.Split( "-" ) )[-1] } |Out-GridView -Title "Select SNAPSHOT to workwith" -OutputMode Single |Select *

$FreezetimeL = $SnapshotD.Freezetime

$SnapshotL = Get-DellScReplay -ConnectionName $ConnName -ScName $ScName -CreateVolume $VolumeL -Active:$false | Select-Object -Property Freezetime,InstanceName | Where-Object Freezetime -EQ $FreezetimeL

$ViewVolumeY =New-DellScReplayView -ConnectionName $ConnName -Instance $SnapshotL.InstanceName -Name $ViewVolumeNameL -VolumeFolder $VolumeL.VolumeFolder

DELL-Bob Mi · Answer

Hello ATEAGunnar,I do not have access to a Compellent system to test any commands so I can only help you so much. I had previously created a script to output all of the help files for every PowerShell API SDK command for reference. This is what I had used when I had previously assisted users trying to figure out commands. Here is the script which I had extracted the SDK in to directory API:Import-Module 'C:\API\DellStoragePowerShellSDK-4.2.0.7\DellStorage.ApiCommandSet.psd1'$user = 'Admin'$em = '127.0.0.1'$pass = ConvertTo-SecureString 'xxxxx' -AsPlainText -Force$conn = Connect-DellApiConnection -HostName $em -User $user -Password $pass $CMD = Get-Command -Module DellStorage.ApiCommandSet foreach ($line in $CMD){Write Host $line$line | %{Get-Help $_.Name -Detailed} | Out-File C:\API\Help4.2.0.7\$line.txt} 3 commands I was looking at from the help files were these:NAME - Get-DellScReplayConsistencyGroupReplayListAssociationSYNOPSIS - Gets a list of Replays created by the Consistency Group NAME - Get-DellScReplayProfileConsistencyGroupListAssociationSYNOPSIS - List of Consistency Groups created by the Replay Profile NAME - Get-DellScReplaySYNOPSIS - Gets a list of Objects I feel that in this line you need to select the InstanceID for the Snapshot you want to create the View Volume from.$VolumeL -Active:$false | Select-Object -Property Freezetime,InstanceName | Where-Object Freezetime -EQ $FreezetimeL

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