Powershell Script to Create Clone, Mount Clone

[smilerspeaking136]

G'Morning,

Does anyone have a script or point me in the right direction for the following script/tool.

## Microsoft OS requirement ##

• Select a Volume Snap
• Create a Clone
• Mount Snap

With NetApp's Snapdrive - it is posisble to select a snapshot of a LUN and mount that at another drive letter.

I know this is all possible manually, just very tedious task when trying to restore data.

If not I'll work on it myself

Thanks

Sparkles

[jrich52352 · Accepted solution]

jrich523/NimblePowerShell · GitHub

whatever it doesnt do for you, let me know and i'll add it in.

[smilerspeaking136]

Awesome, thank you

[jliu79]

Hi Justin, is there any documentation about what those scripts do and how to use them? Thanks. I'm looking for something similar as Mike asked but I'm no expert on power shell scripting.

[jrich52352]

Sorry I have not had time to populate the docs. I've tried to create all of the functions in a very standard way.

If you tell me what you're trying to do i could provide the code you'd use.

Also I should in the next week or so have time to get back on top of this, I need to add "volume collections" and populate the docs and then i'll have the majority of the gui functionality implemented.

[rfenton4]

Jason - there is a rather excellent introduction tutorial here

Many of the things Justin is using in his rather excellent scripts is also covered in that tutorial.

Hope this helps

Rich

[jliu79]

basically I'm looking for scripts to make restoring data easier. Just like Mike said, clone a volume from a snapshot, give access permission of that volume to a server, connect to the volume using iSCSI in the server. Thanks.

[jrich52352]

Those are all in the module, have you loaded it successfully?

You have to connect first, but you can get a list of all functions by running the following command.

gcm -Module nimble

That will return about 18 functions. the names are pretty self explanatory..

You can use tab to help complete things, for example if you do

get-nsvolume -<tab>

You can then tab through the different parameters.

I would suggest using powershell ISE to start since the intellisense will really help.

This was created in powershell 3 but should be compatible with  2, however i strongly suggest you use v3.

I've tried to add a good deal of protection to any remove command, but, like anything else, be careful with what you do.

in your case, are you talking about taking a snapshot that you have already and converting it in to a close and setting access? Is the snapshot from a protection plan?

[jliu79]

Hi Justin, I tried the gcm –Module nimble command and it returns nothing. I copied all the scripts into my powershell profile and the folder is named nimble. I’m running Windows 8 which is powershell version 4. Does that matter? Thanks.

[jrich52352]

so you'll want to copy all of the files (and unblock them) to

my documents\windowspowershell\modules\nimble

dump all the files in that folder and then from powershell type

import-module nimble

gcm -module nimble

also, V4 is currently only with Windows 2012 R2 and as a CTP download. however if you do have it, it will work fine.