Powershell for managing Storage Replicas

Posted: January 9, 2016 | Author: | Filed under: powershell, Uncategorized, Windows Storage Replica | Leave a comment

Powershell to manage Storage Replicas

Get-Module -ListAvailable  : List available modules

Get-Module : List modules loaded

Get-Module  | ft Version,Name

Version    Name
-------    ----
3.1.0.0    Microsoft.PowerShell.Management
3.1.0.0    Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility
1.1        PSReadline
1.0        StorageReplica

Get-Command -Module StorageReplica | ft CommandType,Name

CommandType Name
----------- ----
Function    Clear-SRMetadata
Function    Export-SRConfiguration
Function    Get-SRDelegation
Function    Get-SRGroup
Function    Get-SRPartnership
Function    Grant-SRAccess
Function    Grant-SRDelegation
Function    New-SRGroup
Function    New-SRPartnership
Function    Remove-SRGroup
Function    Remove-SRPartnership
Function    Revoke-SRDelegation
Function    Set-SRGroup
Function    Set-SRPartnership
Function    Suspend-SRGroup
Function    Sync-SRGroup
Cmdlet      Test-SRTopology

 

Powershell and iSCSI

Posted: January 5, 2016 | Author: | Filed under: iSCSI, powershell, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Powershell module notes:

Get-Module : List loaded modules

Get-Module –ListAvailable : List available modules

iSCSI target (Run on machine exporting disks)

Import-Module IscsiTarget

Get-IscsiServerTarget

Get-IscsiVirtualDisk

iSCSI (Run on machine importing disks)

Import-Module iSCSI

Get-IscsiTargetPortal

Get-IscsiConnection

Get-IscsiSession

Get-IscsiTarget

Get-Disk | Format-List -Property Path,Size,IsReadOnly

(get-wmiobject -namespace ROOT\WMI -class MSiSCSIInitiator_SessionClass).Devices | Where-Object {$_.LegacyName -ne $null} | Select-Object -Property LegacyName,DeviceInterfaceName -unique | Format-List

Disable Access to a iscsi target from a given machine

Import-Module IscsiTarget

Get-IscsiServerTarget | Format-List -Property TargetName,InitiatorIds

TargetName   : target1
InitiatorIds : {IPAddress:192.168.117.210, IPAddress:10.0.0.220, IPAddress:192.168.117.211, IPAddress:10.0.0.221}

TargetName   : target2
InitiatorIds : {IPAddress:10.0.0.221, IPAddress:192.168.117.210, IPAddress:10.0.0.220, IPAddress:192.168.117.211

Set-IscsiServerTarget -TargetName target2 -InitiatorId @(“IPAddress:192.168.117.210″,”IPAddress:10.0.0.220″,”IPAddress:192.168.117.211”)

Immediately the iscsi session drops!

 

IIUG 2015 California Conference Pics

Posted: May 10, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: powershell | Tags: | Leave a comment

My  IIUG 2015 California Conference Pics (+ a few others) are at http://www.smooth1.co.uk/phone_pics/

The index.html was generated using http://www.smooth1.co.uk/powershell/htmldir.ps1

powershell script to register VMWare Workstation VMs

Posted: March 21, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: powershell, VMWare | Tags: , | Leave a comment

First realise that Powershell ISE in installed on windows 8 (and 8.1) by default!

Turn on Script Execution

Run powershell as administrator and run:

PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-ExecutionPolicy
Restricted
PS C:\Windows\system32> Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

Execution Policy Change
The execution policy helps protect you from scripts that you do not trust. Changing the execution policy might expose
you to the security risks described in the about_Execution_Policies help topic at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=135170. Do you want to change the execution policy?
[Y] Yes  [N] No  [S] Suspend  [?] Help (default is “Y”):
PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-ExecutionPolicy
RemoteSigned

Adding

Obtaining Help

Run Powershell Ise as Admin and enter

Update-Help

to get the help files

Adding vmrun.exe to path

Go to Control Panel – System – Advanced – Environment Variables

Edit System Variable Path and add

;C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation

to the end of the path

Powershell Script to register VM’s

Script which when passed a location for VMWare Workstation virtual machines registers each vm with the gui.by opening and closing it! http://www.smooth1.co.uk/powershell/vmreg.ps1