latest update of 3PAR OS and WSAPI version needed an update

Hi, no matter how I use it, Close-WSAPIConnection always asks for confirmation prior to closing the connection:

Close-WSAPIConnection
Close-WSAPIConnection -WsapiConnection $connection
Close-WSAPIConnection -WsapiConnection $connection -confirm (asking for confirmation is expected behaviour here)

Is there any way to close a connection within a script w/o the module asking for confirmation?

Missing persona for WindowServer and AIX_ALUA in function Update-3PARHost_WSAPI
Could you please add those 2 to the if statements? Alternatively use the follwing switch:

switch ($Persona.ToUpper())
{
    'GENERIC' 
        { $body["persona"] = 1 }
    'GENERIC_ALUA' 
        { $body["persona"] = 2 }
    'GENERIC_LEGACY' 
        { $body["persona"] = 3 }
    'HPUX_LEGACY' 
        { $body["persona"] = 4 }
    'AIX_LEGACY' 
        { $body["persona"] = 5 }
    'EGENERA' 
        { $body["persona"] = 6 }
    'ONTAP_LEGACY' 
        { $body["persona"] = 7 }
    'VMWARE' 
        { $body["persona"] = 8 }
    'OPENVMS' 
        { $body["persona"] = 9 }
    'HPUX'    
        { $body["persona"] = 10 }
    'WINDOWSSERVER' 
        { $body["persona"] = 11 }
    'AIX_ALUA' 
        { $body["persona"] = 12 }
    default 
	{
		return "Persona : $Persona value is incorrect please use [ GENERIC | GENERIC_ALUA | GENERIC_LEGACY | HPUX_LEGACY | AIX_LEGACY | EGENERA | ONTAP_LEGACY | VMWARE | OPENVMS | HPUX | WindowsServer | AIX_ALUA] " 
	}
}	

Hello,

I get an error when trying to create a new VV using the -tdvv parameter:

New-VV -vvName $name -Size $size -CPGName $CPG -SANConnection $Connection -tdvv

FAILURE : While creating vv Dev_App

Using the Get-Help command i noticed, that -tdvv is deprecated an that I should use the -dedup parameter.

But trying this, my Powershell tells me there is no -dedup parameter for the New-VV cmdlet.

I am using the POSH method

It seems that the Set-PoshSshConnectionPasswordFile command and the Set-PoshSshConnectionUsingPasswordFile command are not working correctly. This is because they call the Protect-String and Unprotect-String functions, but those functions are not present within the internal.psm1.

At the moment it seems that there are three different Options on how to connect to 3Par / Primera.

1. 3parCLI
2. POSH
3. WSAPI

Is there one target you are heading and what will it be if so?
Just asking as object piping seems only be supported when using 3parcli like

PS > Get-3parvv | Remove-3parvv
FAILURE : Invalid cli type

I try to keep dependencys as low as possible and tried using POSH method

Is it me or is there no way to utilise the failover function of VV's in an RC Group?

Hi All,
i am using the 3PAR powershell toolkit and running following which is in the example list and it doesnt seem to work

tried several of such commands from pwoershell toolkit and examples, looks like compareby or NoofRecords doesnt seem to work. has anyone used this ?

example from the toolkit:

-------------------------- EXAMPLE 10 --------------------------
PS C:>Get-3PARCacheMemoryStatisticsDataReports_WSAPI -VersusTime -Frequency_Hires -Compareby top -NoOfRecords 2 -ComparebyField hitIORead

error when we run on system:

C:\HPE3PARPSToolkit> Get-3PARCacheMemoryStatisticsDataReports_WSAPI -VersusTime -Frequency_Hires -Compareby top -NoOfRecords 2 -ComparebyField onlyCompareby
URL = /systemreporter/vstime/cachememorystatistics/hires;compareby:top,2,onlyCompareby
The array send an error message: Invalid system reporter parameter name or its value.

Status: ProtocolError
Error code: 296
HTTP Error code: 400
Message: Invalid system reporter parameter name or its value

FAILURE : While Execute Get-3PARCacheMemoryStatisticsDataReports_WSAPI.

Hi,

When running any CLI command that takes longer than 60 seconds to complete, we hit a default 60 second timeout in PoshSSH. For example:

`>Get-StatVV -iteration 60 -SANConnection $Connection

Exception calling "EndExecute" with "1" argument(s): "Command 'statvv -iter 60 ' has timed out."`

PoshSSH Invoke-SSHCommand does provide a -TimeOut param to change the default, but there is now way to pass this down through the toolset cmdlets to reach Invoke-CLICommand and then to PoshSSH.

I have a workaround: edit the param default directly in Posh-SSH.psm1. Ideally it would be possible to be able to pass a timeout value though the cmdlets, or it may be simpler to set the timeout per session when creating the connection with New-PoshSshConnection.

Thanks!

it seems like when i want to delete a specific host from a hostset, it tries to delete the hostset, which seems not to be good :p.

it deleted the host from the hostset correctly, but returns something weird

updated to the latest version -> still the same problem, opened an SR as well

S C:\PPD\CONF\BIN> $hostset = Get-3parHostSet | Where-Object Members -EQ $3parhosttodelete.Name

PS C:\PPD\CONF\BIN> $hostset

ID Name Members

39 BE_CCM_POC_MA ESX_s2s005aq_POC

PS C:\PPD\CONF\BIN> Remove-3parHostSet $hostset.Name -hostName $hostset.Members
FAILURE : no -force option selected to remove hostset

PS C:\PPD\CONF\BIN> Remove-3parHostSet $hostset.Name -hostName $hostset.Members -force
FAILURE : While removing hostset BE_CCM_POC_MA

PS C:\PPD\CONF\BIN> $hostset

ID Name Members

39 BE_CCM_POC_MA ESX_s2s005aq_POC

PS C:\PPD\CONF\BIN> $hostset = Get-3parHostSet | Where-Object Members -EQ $3parhosttodelete.Name

PS C:\PPD\CONF\BIN> $hostset

I cannot download this module from the PS gallery.

I get the error "Cannot be installed or updated because the authenticode signature of the file 'HPEStoragePowerShellToolkit.psd1' is not valid".

1. Bug 1 :
   Get-3ParCage –sf
   Scenario : While Executing the above command the actual command is Get-3ParCage –sfp
   Actual : If we give like - Get-3ParCage –sf it is proceeding further and giving the output.

Powershell & CLI Ouput --> Refer Screenshot:
Expected

: Get-3ParCage –sf should raise Invalid Cage name as per CLI output.
: Get-3parHostPorts -sf also is taking -sf and also -sfp , kindly check

Hi There

could you please help me about: how can I get list of luns that exported to host set?

Thanks in advance.

When running Get-3ParVVList against a snapshot with Retention and Creation date/times applied these dates and times are not displayed correctly in the returned Powershell object. Listed below is output from 3Par CLI of the snapshot and firmware of 3Par in question, below that is the Powershell object.

3Parcli% showvv -hist Test_Snap
   Id Name              Prov Type  ------CreationTime------ ----RetentionEndTime---- -----ExpirationTime----- -SpaceCalcTime- -EfficiencyUpdateTime- -UnrefSpaceFreedTime- -Comment-
13946 Test_Snap         snp  vcopy 2020-09-24 08:09:29 ACST 2020-09-24 09:09:30 ACST 2020-09-24 09:12:07 ACST --              --                     --                    --
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    1 total

3Parcli% showversion
Release version 3.2.2 (MU6)
Patches:  P99,P107,P119,P131,P135,P139,P149,P154,P160,P162,P165,P166,P167

Component Name                   Version
CLI Server                       3.2.2 (P165)
CLI Client                       3.2.2
System Manager                   3.2.2 (P165)
Kernel                           3.2.2 (MU6)
TPD Kernel Code                  3.2.2 (MU6)
TPD Kernel Patch                 3.2.2 (P165)

Below is out of Get-3ParVVList -Hist.

get-3parvvlist -sanconn $3par -vvname Test_Snap -hist

Id                     : 13946
Name                   : Test_Snap
Prov                   : snp
Type                   : vcopy
Date(Creation)         : 2020-09-24
Time(Creation)         : 08:09:29
Zone(Creation)         : ACST
-RetentionEndTime-     : 2020-09-24
-ExpirationTime-       : 09:09:30
Date                   : ACST
Time                   : 2020-09-24
Zone                   : 09:12:07
-EfficiencyUpdateTime- : ACST
-UnrefSpaceFreedTime-  : -
-Comment-              : -

In the New-xxx_WSAPI commands (VV, Host, HostSet, VVSet, vLUN, maybe more), just after creating stuff, a nested "get-xxx_WSAPI is called to return the properties of the currently created item.
Example: When creating a host, you get host-properties as a return value.

In that nested get-calls, the parameter -wsapiconnection $connectionname is omitted.

This works well with one connection, but in our case, when having two connections (to two different arrays, for remote copy management purposes) open, the nested get-call sometimes seems to be issued to the other connection, and fails.

I don't know why this happens. Does is always use the last connection that was created when the -wsapiconnection parameter is not set?

This means, when creating a host, the host get's created, but an api error is returned afterwards, because the get after the new... fails (you create the host on array A, but ask array B about the host properties afterwards).

After appending "-WsapiConnection $WsapiConnection" to the nested get-calls, everything works.

Examples:
Line 414 in StorageVolumes.psm1
Line 167 in VirtualLUNs.psm1
Line 155 in HostSetsandVirtualVolumeSets.psm1 (HostSets)
Line 869 in HostSetsandVirtualVolumeSets.psm1 (VVSets)

This seems to be a problem with 3PAR arrays only, when working with primeras it works without the appended -wsapiconnection - parameter.

[Edit] Clarification

There seems to be something incorrect with the supported Storage platform below (on the dev portal). Shouldn’t it be 3.3.1, 3.2.2, 3.2.1, etc?

HPE 3PAR StoreServ 7000, 8000, 10000, and 20000 series.
Supported firmware for HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage are:
• 3.1 (MU1, MU2, MU3 & MU4)
• 3.1 (MU1, MU2, and MU3)
• 2.2 (including all MUs)
• 2.1 (including all MUs)

From: Wilhelmi, William (QLytix Training Development, external) [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2020 5:28 PM
To: Snell, Chris [email protected]
Subject: Primera/3PAR PowerShell Toolkit fails POST/PUT ops

Hi Chris,

I have revised some customer training to reflect usage of the latest Primera/3par PowerShell Toolkit with PowerShell 7.0.2 on Windows Server 2016 . WSAPI version 1.7 on Primera OS 4.1.

I get vv creation failure in PowerShell and need some assistance on how to proceed. It seems GET operations succeed. POST and PUT operations fail. Do you know what could cause this? Do you have any ideas about how I can resolve it?

PS C:> Get-VV_WSAPI | select name

Cmdlet executed successfully

name

admin
.srdata
.mgmtdata
vv-501-D-01

**PS C:> New-VV_WSAPI -VVName vv-501-A-05 -CpgName SSD_r6 -SizeMiB 100 -WsapiConnection
Show-RequestException: C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\hpe3par_pstoolkit-master\GLOBAL\VS-Functions.psm1:595
Line |
595 | Show-RequestException -Exception $_
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| Method invocation failed because [System.Net.Http.HttpResponseMessage] does not contain a method named 'GetResponseStream'.

FAILURE : While creating Volumes: vv-501-A-05**

Hello,

it feels like this project is abandoned. No news, no new releases supporting stuff like active peer persistence or other new features. Issues and bugs neither fixed nor acknowledged.

Can you please give a status update?

I think this is know within HPE, but it's not on this board, so:

Editing descriptors (OS, comment, ...) of existing hosts does not work with wsapi cmdlets.

need to fix wsapi version

While executing Get-3parEventLog , Get-3parHealth getting timeout exception since output data is huge. Since raised as a concern for which Aslam needs to fix it.

Raising Bug for the same.

Hi, I can't find a way to use Add-VvToRCopyGroup_WSAPI:
Add-VvToRCopyGroup_WSAPI -GroupName mygroupname -VolumeName myvolumeonprimaryname -VolumeAutoCreation 1 -TargetName rcopytargetname -SecVolumeName myvolumeonprimaryname

and

Add-VvToRCopyGroup_WSAPI -GroupName mygroupname -VolumeName myvolumeonprimaryname -VolumeAutoCreation $true -TargetName rcopytargetname -SecVolumeName myvolumeonprimaryname

and, with a secondary volume with the same name as on primary created on my own,

Add-VvToRCopyGroup_WSAPI -GroupName mygroupname -VolumeName myvolumeonprimaryname -TargetName rcopytargetname -SecVolumeName myvolumeonprimaryname

all return

 The array sends an error message: invalid input: some or all required parameters are missing.

 Status: ProtocolError
 Error code: 40
 HTTP Error code: 400
 Message: invalid input: some or all required parameters are missing
 
 
 FAILURE : While Admitting a volume into a Remote Copy group : myvolumeonprimaryname

If I really omit a parameter, it does not return this error but asks for the missing parameter.

The RCGroup is stopped.

Does anybody know what's wrong here, or does anybody use this command successfully?

I'm using PSToolkit 3.1.

The 2 functions New-3PARVLun_WSAPI and Get-3PARVLun_WSAPI are not handling LUNID=0 correctly.
"if ($LUNID)" on line 8067 will always be false for LUNID 0 which prevents creation of LUNID 0 through WSAPI as it doesnt get added into the request. The same is true in function Get-3PARVLun_WSAPI on line 8339.

A better way to handle this would be "if ($LUNID -le 0)"

If we are passing wrong parameter the expected result should throw Failure.
Ex: Get -3parCage –CageName cage3543
Expected : Failure
Actual Result : Yes throwing Failure.
Result : Working as expected.

But Here if we pass the keyword cage as parameter it is returning Success.
Ex : Get -3parCage –CageName cage
Expected : Should throw a Failure
Actual Result : RETURNING SUCCESS
Result : Not Working as expected.