NetApp Data ONTAP PowerShell Toolkit 1.3 released!

Rejoice, NetApp PowerShell users, for Toolkit 1.3 has dropped. There’s a bunch of new features and improvements in this release. Some new features that caught my eye are SSH Invocation and PowerShell provider. SSH Invocation (Invoke-NaSSH) allows you to send Data ONTAP CLI commands to your filer(s) via SSH. The PowerShell provider makes PowerShell drives [...]

NetApp PowerShell Credential Bug (Fixed!)

Update: This has been resolved in the 1.3 release of the Toolkit. I ran into a bug while trying to write a script that would cycle through all of my NetApp filers and change the root password. The issue was that I was unable to pass a PSCredential object to Connect-NaController because passing credentials meant [...]

Fun with NetApp: PowerShell

I finally got an opportunity to mess around with the PowerShell cmdlets for NetApp. Overall, I think that a storage vendor’s adoption of something like PowerShell is always a Good Thing. (From what I understand, EMC has PowerShell cmdlets out now, as well — but I digress.) There were a couple of things that I [...]