A generic PowerShell wrapper for creating and scheduling NexGen Storage snapshots

This script relies on NexGen's ngscli which should be installed prior to running this script.

I wrote this interface to schedule snapshots on our NexGen arrays since the firmware at the time didn't have a web interface for scheduling snapshots and we were only provided with this CLI tool.

This software comes with absolutely no warranty and use it at your own risk. I don't represent NexGen Storage and have no association with them whatsoever other than being a customer. I take no responsiblty for anything.

I am publishing this work to make it easier for others who need scheduling functionality for snapshots on their NexGen array.

This was tested with N5-150 arrays only.

Examples

Create-NexGenSnapshot.ps1 -VolumeName NexGen-LUN_Name -$Snaps2Keep 5
 
Create-NexGenSnapshot.ps1 -VolumeName NexGen-LUN_Name -$Snaps2Keep 5 -$IOController <cntlr_ip_addr>

Software & Hardware Requirements

PowerShell v2 or newer, NexGen CLI tool (ngscli)

Usage

To use this to create snapshots on NexGen Storage Array, you need to schedule this script using Windows Task Scheduler.
Requires PowerShell v2 or above.  Create a new task and run the commands as shown in the examples above. You can use this wrapper to schedule daily, weekly, hourly snapshots, etc.