Problems using Get-ESXCLI with HPSSACLI

Ginolard1 — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 08:12:28 GMT

Running ESXi 5.1 (free version) on a HP DL580 G7

I'm trying to use Get-ESXICli to run HPSSACLI commands from Powershell. When trying to run the following commands I get an InvalidCastException :-

$esxcli=get-esxcli

$esxcli.hpssacli.cmd("help")

Unable to cast object of type 'System.String' to type 'System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2[System.String,System.Object]'.
At line:1 char:1
+ $esxcli.hpssacli.cmd('"-q "controller all show status""')
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : OperationStopped: (:) [], InvalidCastException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.InvalidCastException

Now if look at the method definition for cmd (by running $esxcli.hpssacli) it shows this

Methods:
--------
string[] cmd(string cmdopts)

That means that it expects to receive a string as a parameter to CMD and then returns a string array called (stupidly) "string[]". So, the command I'm running is perfectly fine but what is, in fact, being returned is a single string value. So, Powershell throws an error saying, quite rightly, that it cannot convert a single string to a string array.

This seems like a bug to me. It's expecting a string array but returning a single string.

Compare that with the the native ESXICLI List method of the CPU object ($esxcli.hardware.cpu)

Methods:
--------
Cpu[] list()

That returns a string array called CPU[] when the List method is run and, naturally, this works just fine.

So, am I formatting the HPSSACLI incorrectly or is this a bug? I suspect the latter

Re: Problems using Get-ESXCLI with HPSSACLI

Ginolard1 — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 15:21:37 GMT

Solved it!!

It's not a bug in the HPSSACLI , it's in the PowerCLI module. The latest release (r2) fixes it

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