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Wildcard? – Originally posted By CAH, 13 Mar 2011

CAH - I'm having trouble using a wildcard character (*) with the Get-SCVolume command.  I use Powershell quite often to manage Exchange 2010, but this is the first time I've tried connecting to Compellent.  I can pull up exact volume names just fine, but haven't had any luck using a wildcard in my search.  I'm just trying to search for volumes with the word "Exchange" in their name.  Shouldn't something like this work for that purpose?

Get-SCVolume *Exchange*

or

Get-SCVolume -Name *Exchange*

or

Get-SCVolume | Where ($_.Name -like "Exchange")

I'm not getting any errors with these, but I'm not getting any results with them either.  Could someone steer me in the right direction?

Thanks,

Chris

ThomVis - I would:

# Read all volumes from CSC

$Volumes=Get-SCVolume

#Run through the list of all volumes

$Volumes | foreach {

    # Do your string selection on $_.Name

CAH - Thanks for the reply.  That's a great idea to just set a volume variable up front to simplify the rest of the script.  I also did some more playing with my syntax, and this gives me the results I was trying to get the other night:

get-scvolume | where {$_.name -like "*exchange*"}

So I think I'll end up doing something like this:

#get all Exchange volumes

$ExchangeVolumes=get-scvolume | where {$_.name -like "*exchange*"}

#Run a foreach for manipulating those volumes

$exchangevolumes | foreach {

#Exchange script

}

Thanks again for helping me think this through.

Chris

kalord - In this situation, the conditional operator you are looking for would be -match and not -like. 

-match is powerful in that it uses regular expressions for pattern matching

Example:

# This will return any string which contains the term 'exchange'

Get-SCvolume | where {$_.Name -match "exchange"}

  CAH - You're right, the match operator works great for this purpose.  Thanks for your reply.

Chris