New PowerShell SDK Release 1.13!

I am happy to announce a HUGE release of the PowerShell SDK, version 1.13. With this new release the version naming adopts the REST API version that is supported as part of the SDK. This should help remove confusion for the latest version of the REST API that is supported with new releases of the SDK.

Installation process is the same from the PowerShell Gallery (PSGallery).

PS C:\> Set-PSRepository -Name PSGallery -InstallationPolicy Trusted
PS C:\> Install-Module -Name PureStoragePowerShellSDK -RequiredVersion 1.13.0.3

Note: Use Set-PSRepository to enable the PSGallery as Trusted to avoid the Untrusted message.

New -Filter Parameter for FlashArray Remote Filtering

A new parameter, -Filter, has been added for any cmdlet that supports returning multiple objects. The cool thing about using the -Filter parameter is that is provides FlashArray filtering vs client-side filtering (Eg. Where-Object). This can be very beneficial when working with large amounts of volumes, snapshots or hosts so a large dataset is not returned to the client. It would be great to get feedback on this new parameter, add a comment here or ping me via twitter (@8arkz).

PS C:\> $MyFlashArray = New-PfaArray -EndPoint 10.21.201.57 -UserName pureuser -IgnoreCertificateError

cmdlet New-PfaArray at command pipeline position 1
Supply values for the following parameters:
(Type !? for Help.)
Password: ********
PS C:\> Get-PfaVolumes -Array $MyFlashArray -Filter "Name='*Server*'" | Format-Table -AutoSize

To get help using this new -Filter parameter use the following:

PS C:\> Get-Help -Name about_Purity_Filtering
TOPIC
    about_Purity_Filtering

SHORT DESCRIPTION
    Describes how PureStoragePowerShellSDK cmdlets support filtering to narrow down results.

LONG DESCRIPTION
    The PureStoragePowerShellSDK supports filtering for various methods that might return multiple objects. The 
filter query parameter narrows down the results of a request to only the response objects that satisfy the filter 
criteria. Cmdlets that support filtering expose the -Filter parameter that takes a string representing the filter 
criteria.

New ActiveCluster Cmdlets

A lot of the work in SDK 1.13 corresponds to the latest release of Purity 5.x. In the new version Purity we introduced ActiveCluster for synchronous replication.

• Add-PfaArrayToPod
• Copy-PfaPod
• Get-PfaAllPodFootprint
• Get-PfaAllPodMediator
• Get-PfaAllPodSpaceHistory
• Get-PfaAllPodSpaces
• Get-PfaNamedPodFootprint
• Get-PfaNamedPodMediator
• Get-PfaNamedPodSpace
• Get-PfaNamedPodSpaceHistory
• Get-PfaNamedPods
• Get-PfaPendingDeletePods
• Get-PfaPendingPodFootprint
• Get-PfaPendingPodMediator
• Get-PfaPendingPodSpace
• Get-PfaPod
• Get-PfaPods
• New-PfaPod
• Remove-PfaArrayFromPod
• Remove-PfaPod
• Rename-PfaPod
• Restore-PfaPod
• Get-PfaRemoteHost
• Get-PfaRemoteHostGroup
• Get-PfaRemoteHostGroupVolumeConnections
• Get-PfaRemoteHostGroups
• Get-PfaRemoteHosts
• Get-PfaRemoteVolumeHostConnections
• Get-PfaRemoteVolumeHostGroupConnections
• Get-PfaVolumeConnection

Example of adding and removing a volume from a Pod:

PS C:\> Add-PfaVolumeToContainer -Array $MyFlashArray -Container 'TEST-POD' -Name 'TEST-PODVOLUME'

source :
serial : 45084F3508BF461400012564
created : 5/16/2018 11:28:28 AM
name : TEST-POD::TEST-PODVOLUME
size : 1099511627776

PS C:\> Remove-PfaVolumeFromContainer -Array $MyFlashArray -Name 'TEST-POD::TEST-PODVOLUME'

source :
serial : 45084F3508BF461400012564
created : 5/16/2018 11:28:28 AM
name : TEST-PODVOLUME
size : 1099511627776

New Named Certificate Management Cmdlets

• Get-PfaNamedCertificate
• Get-PfaNamedCertificateAttribute
• Get-PfaNamedCertificateAttributes
• Import-PfaNamedCertificate
• Remove-PfaNamedCertificate
• New-PfaNamedCertificateImport
• New-PfaNamedSelfSignedCertificate

New Mirrored IO Statistics Cmdlets

Retrieves  performance statistics for I/Os that have been mirrored as part of ActiveCluster.

• Get-PfaAllHostGroupIOMetricsMirrored
• Get-PfaAllHostIOMetricsMirrored
• Get-PfaAllPodIOMetricsMirrored
• Get-PfaAllVolumeIOMetricsMirrored
• Get-PfaArrayIOMetricsMirrored
• Get-PfaHostGroupIOMetricsMirrored
• Get-PfaHostIOMetricsMirrored
• Get-PfaPodIOMetricsMirrored
• Get-PfaVolumeIOMetricsMirrored

New Cmdlets to Support Key Management 

• Get-PfaKmip
• Get-PfaKmips
• New-PfaKmip
• Remove-PfaKmip
• Test-PfaKmip
• Update-PfaKmip

New Purity Run Cmdlet

• Get-PfaPureAppsAttributes

Example of retrieving Purity Run app status. Today we support Windows Files Services (WFS) that uses Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Standard edition to run file services with Failover Clustering.

New Volume Group and VVol Cmdlets

• Get-PfaAllVolumeGroupIOMetrics
• Get-PfaAllVolumeGroupIOMetricsByTimeRange
• Get-PfaAllVolumeGroupsIOMetricsAverage
• Get-PfaAllVolumeGroupsIOMetricsTotal
• Get-PfaVolumeGroupIOMetrics
• Get-PfaVolumeGroupIOMetricsAverage
• Get-PfaVolumeGroupIOMetricsByTimeRange
• Get-PfaVolumeGroupSpaceMetrics
• Get-PfaVolumeGroupSpaceMetrics
• Get-PfaNamedVolumeGroupsIOMetricsByTimeRange
• Get-PfaNamedVolumeGroups
• Get-PfaPendingDeleteVolumeGroups
• Get-PfaProtocolEndpointVolumes
• Get-PfaProtocolEndpointVolume
• Get-PfaVolumeGroups
• Get-PfaVolumeGroup
• New-PfaHostGroupProtocolEndpointVolumeConnection
• New-PfaHostProtocolEndpointVolumeConnection
• New-PfaProtocolEndpointVolume
• New-PfaVolumeGroup    
• Remove-PfaVolumeGroup
• Restore-PfaVolumeGroup

Additional New Cmdlets

• Get-PfaArrayTCPConnection
• Set-PfaSnmpManagerNotification

 

Phew! Lots of additions and more examples will be coming on my blog.

Thanks,
Barkz