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XtremIO.Utils PowerShell module Changelog

Contents:

v1.4.0

16 Mar 2017

This release brings some nice new functionality, providing for increased ease-of-use and more natural use. It also increased the testing-coverage, and fixed a few bugs. The details:

  • [new] added Tag type as accepted type by -RelatedObject parameter to main Get-XIO* cmdlets, providing much needed capability of getting given objects by Tag. Cmdlets updated: Get-XIOBBU, Get-XIOConsistencyGroup, Get-XIOInitiator, Get-XIOInitiatorGroup, Get-XIOSnapshot, Get-XIOSnapshotSet, Get-XIOSsd, Get-XIOVolume
  • [new] added -Name parameter to Set-XIOSnapshotScheduler, Set-XIOTarget, for specifying new name respectively for SnapshotScheduler, Target (not documented in API reference, but supported operation)
  • [new] added Pester tests for Set-XIO* cmdlets
  • [fixed] fixed bug in Set-XIOInitiator where setting failed for all initiators
    • appears that sending full "initiator-id" property as defined on "FullResponse" objects (which is @(, , )), call now succeeds on at least API v2.1:
    • updated Remove-XIO*, which were working w/ name-only for the ID portion, but including GUID and index in request body should now be better
    • updated Set-XIO*:
      • fixed: Set-XIOInitiator, Set-XIOSnapshotScheduler (worked, but try also w/ legit "scheduler-id" array of values instead of just index), Set-XIOTarget, Set-XIOVolume
  • [fixed] fixed typo "multple" in help for Set-XIOLdapConfig

Known Issues as of v1.4.0:

From module release v1.4.0

  • Setting of AccessType on Snapshot objects not seemingly supported. While the API reference documentation mentions this item as a valid parameter in one spot, the documentation omits it in another, making it unclear if there is official support for setting this property on a Snapshot object. Updated Set-XIOVolume help (Set-XIOVolume is used for the other set-operations for Snapshot objects)
  • in XtremIO REST API v2.1:
    • UPDATE on item: some filters (via the -Filter parameter to Get-XIOItemInfo) give unexpected results when comparison operator is "eq" and value is an integer: filtering for same object by different attribute (generally, whose value is a string instead of an integer) seems to be unaffected. Update: vendor confirmed this as a bug, and that said bug should be fixed in upcoming release currently slated for end of Q1 2017
    • Getting objects from related Tag object could return more than just the tagged objects in a multi-cluster XMS environment with objects of the same name across multiple clusters. This is due to the current compatibility mode of the module which does not rely on XMS REST API v2+ feature of filtering. A future module release will handle this by filtering on unique properties, but the current solution uses object names from the Tag (clearly not the best key to try to use), and Tag objects are XMS-wide (not cluster specific).
    • removing SnapshotSet objects seems to consistently fail, as though the name of one of the API request body parameters changed -- the documented property name of snapshot-set-id, as well as the observed (by Audit events) property name of snapset-id both fail in removal requests

From module release v1.3.0

  • in XtremIO REST API v2.1:
    • some filters (via the -Filter parameter to Get-XIOItemInfo) give unexpected results when comparison operator is "eq" and value is an integer: filtering for same object by different attribute (generally, whose value is a string instead of an integer) seems to be unaffected. Investigating with vendor

From module release v1.2.0

  • User must assign proper Tag type to proper Entity type (cmdlet does not currently prevent user from trying to assign an Initiator tag to a Volume entity, for example)
  • XIO REST API version support for specifying -Name for new SnapshotScheduler: the XIO REST API v2.0 does not seem to support specifying the name for a new scheduler, but the REST API v2.1 (and newer, presumably) does support specifying the name.
  • cannot get deprecated XIO VolumeFolder from Snapshot object in modern XIOS (with modern REST API), as API does not provide "folder" type of property any more. Support for Snapshot type as related object to Get-XIOVolumeFolder will be removed in future release (though, may survive until the altogether removal of Get-XIOVolumeFolder)
  • New-XIOTag, Set-XIOTag: Specifying -Color parameter is only supported by the XIO REST API starting in v2.1 of said REST API

From module release v1.1.0

  • In XtremIO REST API v2.0, getting objects from pipeline with SnapshotScheduler as the -RelatedObject in a multi-cluster XMS scenario may return more that just one of given object type: the XIOS API does not have cluster-specificity for SnapshotScheduler objects, so objects related to SnapshotScheduler are retrieved only by name and XMS computer name for now (until better filtering based on GUID is in place); if objects of same name exist across mutliple clusters in this XMS, all of those objects will be returned. This is not the case starting in XtremIO REST API v2.1.
  • When connected to a multi-cluster XMS, getting the following objects in the given ways may fail with, "cluster_id_is_required" message:
    • Get-XIOVolume when using a VolumeFolder as the -RelatedObject parameter value
    • Get-XIOInitiatorGroup when using an IgFolder as the -RelatedObject parameter value
    • This is due to VolumeFolder and IgFolder objects not having a Cluster property
    • this may not get resolved, as support for VolumeFolder/IgFolder objects is going away (they have been replaced with Tag objects)
  • Remove-XIOInitiatorGroupFolder, Remove-VolumeFolder via XIO API v2.1 (on at least XMS version 4.2.0-33) -- fails with message "Invalid property", which is "ig-folder-name" for IgFolder objects, "folder-type" for VolumeFolder objects; potentially due changed API in which folder support is now different/gone
    • folder support will be removed from this PowerShell module eventually, so these may not get addressed
    • Workaround: these items show up as Tag objects, too, so one can use Get-XIOTag to get them, and Remove-XIOTag to remove them
  • Specifying -ParentFolder parameter to New-XIOVolume via XIO API v2.1 (on at least XMS version 4.2.0-33) -- fails with message "Command Syntax Error: Invalid property ig-folder-name"; again, potentially due changed API in which folder support is now different/gone
    • Workaround: do not specify -ParentFolder parameter, which creates volume without volume tag

v1.3.0

14 Dec 2016

This release brought the first implementation of filtering support for the module, along with a fix and an improvement here and there. This filtering support provides the basis for great speed improvements in future updates, as some queries will benifit in a big way from leveraging such filtering. The list for this release:

  • [new] added initial Filtering support, which is supported the XtremIO REST API v2.0 and up
    • first added to Get-XIOItemInfo cmdlet as a parameter (-Filter)
    • can facilitate surgical selection of objects to return, providing for vastly improved retrieval of objects (like is characteristic of server-side filtering)
    • utilized in improved Get-XIOLunMap cmdlet (mentioned below)
    • see Get-XIOItemInfo for brief help and examples, and see the "Filter" section towards the start of the XtremIO "RESTful API Guide" for complete syntax
  • [fixed] fixed bug in Remove-XIOUserAccount that was caused by change of input parameter name in XtremIO REST API v2.1 and inaccurate API docs; this fix maintained compatibility with XtremIO REST API v2.0
  • [improvement] improved Get-XIOLunMap:
    • added -RelatedItem parameter, which supports InitiatorGroup, Volume, and Snapshot items (and, from pipeline, too); this uses new Filtering capabilities, which bring great speed improvements
    • added -Name param, for the off chance that someone wants to get LunMap by 1_3_1 kind of name

v1.2.0

17 Nov 2016

This release brought new cmdlets for managing Tag assignments on objects, a small new cmdlet to quickly open the WebUI on XMS appliances, some lifecycle management of object types and properties, and various bugfixes/updates. See below for the exciting list:

  • [new] added ability to assign/remove Tag for an object; done via new cmdlets New-XIOTagAssignment and Remove-XIOTagAssignment
  • [new] added Open-XIOXMSWebUI cmdlet for opening the WebUI web management interface of the given XMS appliance(s)
  • [updated] New-XIOTag, Set-XIOTag cmdlets now support specifying Tag color via new -Color parameter
  • [updated] added -Name parameter to New-XIOSnapshotScheduler (available via XIO REST API starting in v2.1)
  • [updated] added/removed/deprecated following properties for given object types:
    • for Alert: added Cluster property, deprecated ClusterId and ClusterName properties
    • for LunMap: added Certainty
    • for SnapshotScheduler: added Cluster property (available via XIO REST API starting in v2.1; will be $null in SnapshotScheduler objects returned from XIO REST API v2.0)
    • for SSD: removed obsolete property SSDPositionState (values were returned from API as "obsolete")
    • for StorageController: removed obsolete properties EncryptionMode, EncryptionSwitchStatus (values were returned from API as "obsolete")
    • for Volume, Snapshot: added VolSizeGB property for ease of reading for when the volume size is less than 1TB, updated output format to include these in default table view
  • [fixed] fixed order of items in [XioItemInfo.Enums.Tag.EntityType] enumeration
  • [fixed] added DefaultParameterSetName to Set-XIOUserAccount, as some parameter combinations resulted in "Parameter set cannot be resolved using the specified named parameters" error
  • [updated] various minor updates/fixes to cmdlets and their parameters, for improving the overall experience

v1.1.0

30 Jun 2016

This release is all about having expanded the pipelining capabilities of the Get-XIO* cmdlets. This was accomplished by adding a -RelatedObject parameter to many of these cmdlets. For example, one can now get a ConsistencyGroup object based on a related Snapshot object, or a LunMap object based on a related Volume object, or a StorageController object based on a related Brick object. One can pass a value directly to -RelatedObject, or (much more conveniently) via pipeline. Details for this release:

  • [improvement] Added -RelatedObject parameter to nineteen (19) cmdlets, accepting related objects by value and by pipeline as such. The cmdlets then use the properties of the related object to determine the Cluster, ComputerName, etc., in order to get the desired object type based on the related object:
    • Get-XIOBBU: from Brick, StorageController
    • Get-XIOBrick: from BBU, Cluster, DAE, DAEController, DAEPsu, DataProtectionGroup, LocalDisk, Slot, Ssd, StorageController, StorageControllerPsu, Target, Xenv
    • Get-XIOCluster: from BBU, Brick, ConsistencyGroup, DAE, DAEController, DAEPsu, DataProtectionGroup, InfinibandSwitch, Initiator, InitiatorGroup, LocalDisk, LunMap, Slot, Snapshot, SnapshotSet, Ssd, StorageController, StorageControllerPsu, Target, TargetGroup, Volume, Xenv
    • Get-XIOConsistencyGroup: from Snapshot, SnapshotScheduler, SnapshotSet, Volume
    • Get-XIODAE: from Brick, DAEController, DAEPsu
    • Get-XIODataProtectionGroup: from Brick, Ssd, StorageController
    • Get-XIOInfinibandSwitch: from Cluster
    • Get-XIOInitiatorGroup: from Initiator, IgFolder, LunMap, Snapshot, Volume
      • -RelatedObject parameter replaces -InitiatorGrpId
    • Get-XIOInitiatorGroupFolder: from IgFolder, InitiatorGroup
      • -RelatedObject parameter replaces -InitiatorGrpId
    • Get-XIOLocalDisk: from StorageController
    • Get-XIOSnapshot: from Snapshot, SnapshotSet, Volume, VolumeFolder
      • -RelatedObject parameter replaces -VolumeId and -InitiatorGrpId parameters, which are now gone
    • Get-XIOSnapshotSet: from Snapshot, SnapshotScheduler, Volume
    • Get-XIOSsd: from Brick, Slot
    • Get-XIOStorageController: from BBU, Brick, LocalDisk, StorageControllerPsu, Target, Xenv
    • Get-XIOStorageControllerPsu: from Get-XIOStorageController
    • Get-XIOTag: from BBU, Brick, Cluster, ConsistencyGroup, DAE, InfinibandSwitch, Initiator, InitiatorGroup, LocalDisk, Snapshot, SnapshotSet, Ssd, Target, TargetGroup, Volume, Xenv
    • Get-XIOTargetGroup: from Target
    • Get-XIOVolume: from ConsistencyGroup, InitiatorGroup, LunMap, Snapshot, SnapshotScheduler, SnapshotSet, Volume, VolumeFolder
      • -RelatedObject parameter replaces -VolumeId and -InitiatorGrpId parameters, which are now gone
    • Get-XIOVolumeFolder: from Snapshot, Volume, VolumeFolder
      • -RelatedObject parameter replaces VolumeId parameter, which is now gone

Known Issues as of v1.1.0:

  • Getting objects from pipeline with SnapshotScheduler as the -RelatedObject in a multi-cluster XMS scenario may return more that just one of given object type: the XIOS API does not have cluster-specificity for SnapshotScheduler objects, so objects related to SnapshotScheduler are retrieved only by name and XMS computer name for now (until better filtering based on GUID is in place); if objects of same name exist across mutliple clusters in this XMS, all of those objects will be returned
  • When connected to a multi-cluster XMS, getting the following objects in the given ways may fail with, "cluster_id_is_required" message:
    • Get-XIOVolume when using a VolumeFolder as the -RelatedObject parameter value
    • Get-XIOInitiatorGroup when using an IgFolder as the -RelatedObject parameter value
    • This is due to VolumeFolder and IgFolder objects not having a Cluster property
    • this may not get resolved, as support for VolumeFolder/IgFolder objects is going away (they have been replaced with Tag objects)
  • Remove-XIOUserAccount via the XIO API v2.1 (on at least XMS version 4.2.0-33) -- fails with message "Invalid property user-id" due to potentially changed API parameter (not confirmed, but events on XMS show param name as "usr_id", API ref until this point says "user-id", with the dash/underscore being insignificant, as they seem interchangable, but with the "usr" vs. user" difference possibly being the issue)
  • Remove-XIOInitiatorGroupFolder, Remove-VolumeFolder via XIO API v2.1 (on at least XMS version 4.2.0-33) -- fails with message "Invalid property", which is "ig-folder-name" for IgFolder objects, "folder-type" for VolumeFolder objects; potentially due changed API in which folder support is now different/gone
    • folder support will be removed from this PowerShell module eventually, so these may not get addressed
    • Workaround: these items show up as Tag objects, too, so one can use Get-XIOTag to get them, and Remove-XIOTag to remove them
  • Specifying -ParentFolder parameter to New-XIOVolume via XIO API v2.1 (on at least XMS version 4.2.0-33) -- fails with message "Command Syntax Error: Invalid property ig-folder-name"; again, potentially due changed API in which folder support is now different/gone
    • Workaround: do not specify -ParentFolder parameter (of course), which creates volume without volume tag

v1.0.0

05 May 2016

Oh, my -- v1.0.0! Added the other set of cmdlets still needed, the Remove-XIO* cmdlets. And, while there is still a long list of things to add/update/enhance, this update brings the module to version 1.0 status. Details for this release:

  • [new] Remove-XIO* cmdlets: Remove-XIOConsistencyGroup, Remove-XIOInitiator, Remove-XIOInitiatorGroup, Remove-XIOInitiatorGroupFolder, Remove-XIOLunMap, Remove-XIOSnapshotScheduler, Remove-XIOSnapshotSet, Remove-XIOTag, Remove-XIOUserAccount, Remove-XIOVolume, Remove-XIOVolumeFolder
  • [new] Added Pester tests for New-XIO* and Remove-XIO* cmdlets, with an additional test that verifies that the same number of XtremIO inventory objects exist after testing as did before testing -- to get a feel for whether any testing crumbs were left behind
  • [bugfix] Fixed issue where New-XIOSnapshotScheduler for multi-cluster XMS requires cluster-id property in the JSON body, but the cmdlet was not passing it if not explicitly specified by user; the cmdlet now takes it from the -RelatedObject's Cluster property if -Cluster parameter not specified

v0.14.0

22 Apr 2016

Now, with Set-XIO* cmdlets! This release brings a bevy of new Set-XIO* cmdlets: sixteen (16) of them, to be exact. This provides coverage for setting properties of objects with settable properties -- woo-hoo! The details for this release:

  • [new] Set-XIO* cmdlets: Set-XIOAlertDefinition, Set-XIOConsistencyGroup, Set-XIOEmailNotifier, Set-XIOInitiator, Set-XIOInitiatorGroup, Set-XIOInitiatorGroupFolder, Set-XIOLdapConfig, Set-XIOSnapshotScheduler, Set-XIOSnapshotSet, Set-XIOSnmpNotifier, Set-XIOSyslogNotifier, Set-XIOTag, Set-XIOTarget, Set-XIOUserAccount, Set-XIOVolume, Set-XIOVolumeFolder. These all accept from pipeline the object upon which to operate for maximum ease of use.
  • [new] A couple of new properties for Cluster objects: DebugCreationTimeoutLevel, ObfuscateDebugInformation

v0.12.0

08 Apr 2016

New properties! This release was all about fleshing out the properties of returned objects, partly for increasing the richness of the objects, and partly in preparation for making vast pipelining improvements between cmdlets. The further standardization of objects' properties lead to three property deprecations, and those properties will be removed in a future release (see list below). Some details:

  • [new] added or updated Cluster property to twenty-one (21) object types, and in the form of an XioItemInfo.Cluster object
  • [change] updated Cluster property to be an XioItemInfo.Cluster object instead of just a String on object types DataProtectionGroup and StorageController
  • [deprecated] deprecated properties ClusterId, ClusterName, and SysId, with the new Cluster property being the direction forward, for fourteen object types that had one or more of said properties. Affected object types: BBU, Brick, ConsistencyGroup, DAE, DAEController, DAEPsu, LocalDisk, Slot, Snapshot, SnapshotSet, Ssd, StorageControllerPsu, TargetGroup, Volume
  • [new] added various new properties to twenty-seven object types

v0.11.0

20 Mar 2016

This release brings four (4) new cmdlets for creating XtremIO configuration items. Additionally, there is now support for the OperatingSystem property of Initiator objects. The list:

  • [new] New cmdlets: New-XIOConsistencyGroup, New-XIOSnapshotScheduler, New-XIOTag, and New-XIOUserAccount
  • [improvement] the New-XIOInitiator cmdlet now provides the -OperatingSystem parameter for specifying the OS type of the host whose HBA is involved with the new Initiator object, and Initiator objects now have the OperatingSystem property
  • [improvement] Better reporting for when a web exception does happen, for easier issue identification/troubleshooting (mostly useful/applicable during development and API exploration)

v0.10.0

08 Mar 2016

This release took on the task of adding support for multi-cluster XMS situations to Get-XIO* and New-XIO* cmdlets. Another great add was the formalization and integration of the Pester unit testing. While there were some tests before, the actual test code was external to this project -- no longer.

The behavior for multi-cluster scenarios is:

  • For Get-XIO* cmdlets:
    • if -Cluster parameter/value specified, the Get-XIO* cmdlet will only consider the given cluster(s) when querying for XIO objects
    • if no -Cluster parameter/value specified, the Get-XIO* cmdlet will return any matching XIO object from all clusters managed by the XMS devices to which current session is connected
  • For New-XIO* cmdlets: you must specify one or more values for -Cluster for New-XIO* cmdlets for objects that are cluster-specific; otherwise, the cmdlets return an error (though, as the -Cluster parameter is not necessary for single-cluster scenarios, the parameter itself is not made proper "Mandatory" from a PowerShell standpoint)

And, -Cluster is now valid for all of the cmdlets that deal with XtremIO objects that are cluster-specific (like, Volumes, LunMaps, etc. -- not XMS-specific things like Alerts and SnmpNotifiers). This consists of 22 object-specific Get-XIO* cmdlets, six (6) object-specific performance cmdlets, the general Get-XIOPerformanceCounter cmdlet, and five (5) New-XIO* cmdlets. You can see which cmdlets support the -Cluster parameter like:

Get-Command -Module XtremIO.Utils -ParameterName Cluster

Some further details about this release:

  • [improvement] added Cluster property to XioConnection objects; this new property holds the XIOCluster objects for the clusters that the given XMS appliance manages
  • [improvement] added oodles of Pester tests for verifying functioning module/cmdlets
  • [improvement] restructured/cleaned-up project directory: segregated module-specific files into new subdirectory
  • [bugfixes] fixed issues with using the module in PowerShell v5 (WMF 5 RTM re-release from 24 Feb 2016)

v0.9.5

03 Jan 2016

This version is a collection of improvements, bug fixes, feature additions, and standardization. Fixed are several bugs relating to using the module in PowerShell v5, and changes in behavior due to changes in the XMS (particularly, the launching of the Java management console).

A couple of improvements around speed/efficiency take advantage of capabilities provided by v2.0 of the XtremIO REST API (which came to be in XIOS v4). Firstly, we can now retrieve all objects of a given type in one web call, instead of one web call per object. Also, we can specify just the properties to return, instead of always receiving all properties of the given objects. While this can help greatly with the speed and efficiency of the cmdlets, it introduces a new potential for issue: the size of the JSON response might be larger than 2MB, the maximum size currently supported by the PowerShell cmdlet from Microsoft used in this module for JSON handling (ConvertFrom-Json). The use of the -Property parameter can help keep the response size under the current 2MB max. If Microsoft does not make change this cmdlet in the near future, we will need to explore other means for JSON handling.

See below for the full list of changes.

  • [new] added New-XIOSnapshot cmdlet for creating snapshots from the types Volume, Tag, ConsistencyGroup, and SnapshotSet, including from-pipeline support. Note: this cmdlet currently supports new snapshots via the v2 API (in XIOS v4). Further support for snapshots in v1 of the API may be coming, depending on need
  • [improvement] added support for leveraging v2 API feature that allows for getting "full" view of objects upon initial request, instead of getting just the list of HREFs the the "default" view gives. Allows for far more efficient queries. Supported by Get-XIOItemInfo, implemented in Get-XIOLunMap for now. Get-XIOLunMap showed an up to 15x speed improvement in the testing environment
  • [improvement] added about_XtremIO.Utils.help.txt with the general "here's the module, here are some ways to use it". You can now get this help via Get-Help about_XtremIO.Utils
  • [improvement] more standardized: updated type definitions for "original" object types (types that have been available since API v1), bringing them in line with the properties of objects from API v2. While the goal was to avoid any breaking changes, there are several deprecated properties now, and just a few changes to property values, as described here:
    • deprecated (in DeprecatedPropertyName -> NewPropertyName format below), and deprecated properties are to be removed in some future release:
      • On Brick:
        • NumNode -> NumStorageController
        • NodeList -> StorageController, a collection of objects with ID, Name, Index properties, instead of just lists of the properties
      • On Cluster:
        • BrickList -> Brick, a collection of objects with ID, Name, Index properties, instead of just lists of the properties
        • InfiniBandSwitchList -> InfiniBandSwitch, a collection of objects with ID, Name, Index properties, instead of just lists of the properties
      • On DataProtectionGroup:
        • BrickIndex, BrickName -> Brick, a collection of objects with ID, Name, Index properties, instead of just the properties
        • ClusterIndex, ClusterName -> Cluster, objects with ID, Name, Index properties, instead of just the properties
        • RGrpId -> DataProtectionGrpId, the ID of the DataProtectionGroup (instead of an array of id/name/index)
      • On LunMap:
        • MappingId -> LunMapId, the ID of the LunMap (instead of an array of id/name/index)
        • MappingIndex -> Index, to have the standard property name used across other objects
      • On SSD:
        • EnabledState -> (new property) Enabled, to have the standard property name and type used across other objects
        • ModelName -> Model, to have the standard property name used across other objects
        • ObjSeverity -> Severity, to have the standard property name used across other objects
        • RGrpId -> DataProtectionGroup, objects with ID, Name, Index properties, instead of just the properties
      • On StorageController:
        • EnabledState -> (new property) Enabled, to have the standard property name and type used across other objects
        • BiosFWVersion -> FWVersion, to have the standard property name used across other objects
      • On Target:
        • BrickId -> Brick, an object with ID, Name, Index properties, instead of just the properties
        • TargetGrpId -> TargetGroup, an object with ID, Name, Index properties, instead of just the properties
      • On Volume, Snapshot:
        • LunMappingList -> LunMapList, which contains objects with InitiatorGroup, TargetGroup, and LunId info, instead of just lists of properties
        • NumLunMapping -> NumLunMap, for naming consistency
      • On Xenv:
        • BrickId -> Brick, an object with ID, Name, Index properties, instead of just the properties
        • NumMdl -> NumModule, for more clear naming of property
    • changes/additions:
      • On Brick:
        • added NumStorageController, StorageController properties
      • On Cluster:
        • added Brick, InfiniBandSwitch properties
      • On DataProtectionGroup:
        • added Brick, Cluster, DataProtectionGrpId, Guid properties
      • On IgFolder:
        • CHANGED FolderId: it is now the unique identifier of the folder, instead of the array of ,,; this is to align with the *Id properties of the rest of the objects in the module -- they are just the Id string value, not the array of all three properties. And, this Id property is essentially the Guid property of the object, but, older XIOS did not present the Guid property directly; so, Id and Guid values should be the same on objects from XIOS v4 and newer; on objects from XIOS older than v3, the Guid property will be empty string
        • SubfolderList now contains objects with subfolders' Id, Name, and Index info, instead of just lists of properties
        • added Caption, ColorHex, CreationTime, Guid, ObjectType properties
      • On Initiator:
        • CHANGED InitiatorId: it is now the unique identifier of the intiator, instead of the array of ,,; this is like the change to the FolderId property of IgFolder objects above
        • added Guid, InitiatorGroup properties
      • On LunMap:
        • added LunMapId, that is the unique identifier of the folder; will eventually be the favored identifying property, over the deprecated MappingId property
      • On SSD:
        • CHANGED SsdId: it is now the unique identifier of the SSD, instead of the array of ,,; this is like the change to the FolderId property of IgFolder objects above
        • added DataProtectionGroup, Enabled, Model, Severity properties
      • On StorageController:
        • added DataProtectionGroup, Enabled, FWVersion, IdLED, LifecycleState, PartNumber, StorageControllerId properties
      • On Target:
        • added Brick, ErrorReason, PortMacAddress, StorageController, TargetGroup, TargetId properties
      • On TargetGroup:
        • CHANGED TargetGrpId: it is now the unique identifier of the TargetGroup, instead of the array of ,,; this is like the change to the FolderId property of IgFolder objects above
      • On Snapshot, Volume:
        • added Folder, LunMapList, NumLunMap, SnapshotType, TagList properties
      • On VolumeFolder:
        • added Caption, ColorHex, CreationTime, ObjectType, SubfolderList properties
      • On Xenv:
        • CHANGED XenvId: it is now the unique identifier of the Xenv, instead of the array of ,,; this is like the change to the FolderId property of IgFolder objects above
        • added NumModule, StorageController properties
  • [improvement] Added ability to specify particular properties for retrieval/return, so as to allow for quicker, more focused queries. Implemented on Get-XIOItemInfo and Get-XIOLunMap cmdlets first. Can specify the "nice" property names as defined for objects created by the PowerShell module, or the "raw" property names as defined in the XIO REST API.
  • [improvement] for when web call returns an error, added additional verbose error info from WebException in InnnerException of returned error (if any) for when issue getting items from API. This is helpful for troubleshooting, especially when you are crafting own URIs
  • [bugfix] Open-XIOMgmtConsole now works as it should on XMS of XIOS version 4 and newer -- the path to the .jnlp file is now dependent upon the XMS version. Also uses HTTPS to get launch file. This now expects the current PowerShell session has an XioConnection to the target XMS server (via which the XMS version info is retrieved)
  • [bugfix] Module now works in PowerShell v5. Importing the module in PowerShell v5 previously resulted in multiple errors of: Multiple ambiguous overloads found for ".ctor" and the argument count: "1". This was due to the OutputType statement for cmdlet definitions specifying a type that was not yet defined in the session, which was due to the adding of types occurring after the dot-source of the given function-defining .ps1 file
  • [bugfix] Several cmdlets are now fixed for use in PowerShell v5:
    • TagList property type was not a nullable type before, so would throw error if returned object had no value. Fixed for:
      • Get-XIOBBU
      • Get-XIODAE
      • Get-XIOInfinibandSwitch
      • Get-XIOLocalDisk
      • Get-XIOSnapshotSet
    • Similar issue for various properties of objects returned by other cmdlets. Fixed for:
      • Get-XIOInitiatorGroupFolder
      • Get-XIOInitiatorGroupFolderPerformance
      • Get-XIOSnapshot
      • Get-XIOTag
      • Get-XIOVolume
      • Get-XIOVolumeFolder
      • Get-XIOVolumeFolderPerformance
      • Get-XIOVolumePerformance
    • difference in PowerShell v5 in Where-Object result in function internals for creating the URL. Fixed for:
      • Get-XIOPerformanceCounter
  • [bugfix] Fixed issue where BuildNumber property of XMS object did not handle all possible values. Usually the value received from the API call is an Int32, but can be string. CHANGED: This property was renamed to Build and is now a String instead of an Int32

v0.9.0

14 Nov 2015

The focus for this version was on updating the module to support new things available in XIOS version 4.0. Twenty new types, and the ability to get the newly available performance counters for eleven entity types (Cluster, DataProtectionGroup, Initiator, InitiatorGroup, SnapshotGroup, SSD, Target, TargetGroup, Volume, XEnv, and Xms).

  • [new] added Get- cmdlet coverage for new types available in XIOS v4 and newer:

      Get-XIOAlert
  Get-XIOAlertDefinition
  Get-XIOBBU
  Get-XIOConsistencyGroup
  Get-XIODAE
  Get-XIODAEController
  Get-XIODAEPsu
  Get-XIOEmailNotifier
  Get-XIOInfinibandSwitch
  Get-XIOLdapConfig
  Get-XIOLocalDisk
  Get-XIOSlot
  Get-XIOSnapshotScheduler
  Get-XIOSnapshotSet
  Get-XIOSnmpNotifier
  Get-XIOStorageControllerPsu
  Get-XIOSyslogNotifier
  Get-XIOTag
  Get-XIOUserAccount
  Get-XIOXMS

  • [new] added Get-XIOPerformanceCounter cmdlet for getting performance counter values for given entity types, and exposing the ability to set granularity of the counter values and timeframe from which to get the data. Note: not yet supporting getting performance counters based on Tag entity type, as there may be some further research needed, possibly involving discussions with the vendor

  • [new] added feature that allows for graceful determination of valid types for given XioConnection; so, executing Get-XIOTag when connected to an XIOS v3 or older XMS will not throw error due to non-existent object types, but rather will return verbose message that given type is not available on XMS at older XIOS (API) version

  • [improvement] added XIOS REST API version and full XMS version to XioItemInfo.XioConnection object (if available via XMS type, which it is for XIOS v4+). The new properties on the XioConnection type are RestApiVersion, XmsDBVersion, XmsSWVersion (string representation, like "4.0.1-41"), and XmsVersion

  • [bugfix] fixed issue in return-object-creation where *in-progress properties from XIOS v4 DataProtectionGroup API objects might have values other than "true" and "false". Module was expecting just these two strings and converting them to boolean; this could have failed in XIOS v4 environments. Affected cmdlets were Get-XIODataProtectionGroup and Get-XIODataProtectionGroupPerformance

Other notes:

  • not yet adding support for consistency-group-volumes API objects, as their returned properties seem to just be consistency groups, not consistency group volumes -- may also require discussion with vendor
  • not yet adding support for SYR Notifiers. While the XIOS v4 release notes talk about API support for these objects, the API on the few systems on which I tested did not surface this object type
  • the new cmdlets are at the base level -- on the to-do list are things like extending/improving them to bring in the additional power of supporting pipelining

v0.8.3

Sep 2015

  • [improvement] updated supporting function New-XioApiURI such that communications testing can be controlled (say, only at, Connect-XIOServer time) -- previously, communications were tested with every cmdlet call. Once verified with the Connection-XIOServer call, the assumption is that the port does not change on the destination XMS appliance in the session (or, probably ever), so, for the sake of performance, the test is not performed at every call, now
  • [update] added handling of DataReduction property calculation on Cluster objects that accounts for the now-missing property data-reduction-ratio from the XMS appliance on at least the 4.0.0-54 beta and 4.0.1-7 XIOS versions. Without this, DataReduction value for connections to XMS appliance of these XIOS versions would return just the DedupeRatio value for DataReduction property

v0.8.2

24 Jun 2015

  • [bugfix] fixed issue where some VolSizeTB and UsedLogicalTB properties were defined as Int32 types in the type definition, which lead to lack of precision due to subsequent rounding in the casting process. Corrected, defining them as Double items

v0.8.1

08 Jun 2015

  • [improvement] updated Connect-XIOServer to return "legit" object type, instead of PSObject with inserted typename of XioItemInfo.XioConnection (so that things like $oConnection -is [XioItemInfo.XioConnection] return $true)
  • [correction] fixed incorrect examples in changelog

v0.8.0

22 May 2015

Several great improvements in this release, most of which were centered around adding pipelining support for objects returns from cmdlets (hurray for all of us, especially Greg D.). These required updates that ranged from defining legitimate Types to adding more parameters on cmdlets to adding/renaming properties to/on objects. Some of these property- and object name changes could affect existing scripts that leverage the module, but were necessary for adherence to things like .NET standards. The list of changes/updates:

  • [improvement] added parameters to New-XIOVolume cmdlet: can now set SmallIoAlerts, UnalignedIoAlerts, and VaaiTpAlerts volume properties to enabled or disabled; implemented as switch params

  • [update] published the function Update-TitleBarForXioConnection so that user can invoke said function at will (it is what sets the PowerShell window title bar with XIO connection info, and is invoked internally by the Connect-XIOServer / Disconnect-XIOServer cmdlets)

  • [improvement] defined output types made by module, used Add-Type to add them to session at module load time. This required renaming types and properties (boo for that) that had a dash in their name to not have a dash (.NET properties should not have a dash)

    • types renamed:

        "Data-Protection-Group" -> DataProtectionGroup
  "Data-Protection-GroupPerformance" -> DataProtectionGroupPerformance
  "Ig-Folder" -> IgFolder
  "Ig-FolderPerformance" -> IgFolderPerformance
  "Initiator-Group" -> InitiatorGroup
  "Initiator-GroupPerformance" -> InitiatorGroupPerformance
  "Lun-Map" -> LunMap
  "Storage-Controller" -> StorageController
  "Target-Group" -> TargetGroup
  "Volume-Folder" -> VolumeFolder
  "Volume-FolderPerformance" -> VolumeFolderPerformance

    • properties renamed across all object types that had them:

        "brick-id" -> BrickId
  "rg-id" -> RGrpId
  "ssd-slot-array" -> SsdSlotInfo
  "xms-id" -> XmsId
  "ig-id" -> InitiatorGrpId
  "initiator-id" -> InitiatorId
  "lu-name" -> LuName
  "small-io-ratio" -> SmallIORatio
  "small-io-ratio-level" -> SmallIORatioLevel
  "snapgrp-id" -> SnapGrpId
  "unaligned-io-ratio" -> UnalignedIORatio
  "unaligned-io-ratio-level" -> UnalignedIORatioLevel
  "sys-id" -> SysId
  "ssd-id" -> SsdId
  "ssd-rg-state" -> SsdRGrpState
  "ssd-uid" -> SsdUid
  "xenv-id" -> XEnvId
  "xenv-state" -> XEnvState
  "ig-index" -> InitiatorGrpIndex
  "tg-name" -> TargetGrpName
  "tg-index" -> TargetGrpIndex
  "tg-id" -> TargetGrpId
  "vol-index" -> VolumeIndex
  "os-version" -> OSVersion
  "IMPIState" -> IPMIState

  • [improvement] updated piece that makes the objects to return to now return "fully" legit objects, by using proper TypeName for New-Object, instead of inserting PSTypeName into PSObject properties after the fact (useful for many things, including detection of object type -- was not necessarily expected type when using PSTypeName insertion method of adding type)

  • [improvement] added OutputType to cmdlets once types were defined, which, along with having proper types, allows for leveraging other handy/convenient PowerShell features like tab-completion of property names on the command line while constructing the pipeline

  • [update] changed property values to be more usable (partially in support of adding pipelining support)

    • on Initiator and InitiatorGroup objects:
      • InitiatorGrpId property now is a string that is just the ID, instead of the array of three strings which was <initiator group ID string>, <initiator group name>, <initiator group object index number>
    • on Volume and Snapshot objects:
      • VolId property now is a string that is just the ID, instead of the array of three strings which was <volume ID string>, <volume name>, <volume object index number>

  • [update] added property InitiatorGrpIdList to IgFolder objects that is the list of IDs of the initiator groups that reside directly in the given IgFolder

  • [improvement] added support for getting Initiator by PortAddress

  • [improvement] added support for getting Initiator by InitiatorGrpId, including by pipeline:

      Get-XIOInitiatorGroup someIG | Get-XIOInitiator

  • [improvement] added support for getting InitiatorGroup by InitatorGrpId, including by pipeline:

      Get-XIOInitator someInitiatorName | Get-XIOInitiatorGroup
  Get-XIOInitiatorGroupFolder /someIGFolder/someDeeperFolder | Get-XIOInitiatorGroup
  Get-XIOVolume myVol0 | Get-XIOInitiatorGroup
  Get-XIOSnapshot mySnap0 | Get-XIOInitiatorGroup

  • [improvement] added support for getting InitiatorGroupFolder by InitatorGrpId, including by pipeline:

      Get-XIOInitiatorGroup someIG | Get-XIOInitiatorGroupFolder

  • [improvement] added support for getting Volume and Snapshot by VolId, including by pipeline:

      Get-XIOVolumeFolder /someVolumeFolder | Get-XIOVolume
  Get-XIOVolumeFolder /someVolumeFolder | Get-XIOSnapshot

  • [improvement] added support for getting Volume and Snapshot by InitiatorGrpId, including by pipeline

      Get-XIOInitiatorGroup myIgroup0 | Get-XIOVolume
  Get-XIOInitiatorGroup myIgroup0 | Get-XIOSnapshot

  • [improvement] added support for getting VolumeFolder by VolId, including by pipeline:

      Get-XIOVolume myVol0 | Get-XIOVolumeFolder

  • [bugfix] fixed ParameterSet bug where specifying URI to most Get-XIO* cmdlets (excluding the Get-XIO*Performance cmdlets) was also passing the -ItemType to internal function, which caused problems/errors

  • [bugfix] corrected minor typo in changelog (thanks AC)

v0.7.0

30 Nov 2014

Hottest new feature: Added Connect-XIOServer and Disconnect-XIOServer cmdlets to be able to use other XIO cmdlets without needing to pass credentials with every call. Simply connect to one or more XIO server (XMS appliance) with the Connect-XIOServer cmdlet, and then use the module's other cmdlets without hassling with further credential passing! Other great updates:

  • added the rest of the New-XIO<specificItem> functions:
    • New-XIOInitiator, New-XIOInitiatorGroupFolder, New-XIOLunMap, New-XIOVolumeFolder
  • added performance-specific cmdlets for retrieving performance data for given types:
    • Get-XIOClusterPerformance, Get-XIODataProtectionGroupPerformance, Get-XIOInitiatorGroupFolderPerformance, Get-XIOInitiatorGroupPerformance, Get-XIOInitiatorPerformance, Get-XIOSsdPerformance, Get-XIOTargetPerformance, Get-XIOVolumeFolderPerformance, Get-XIOVolumePerformance
    • included the ability to do "refresh interval" kind of performance data returns (similar to the "frequency" and "duration" types of options in the xmcli) -- see the help on these new cmdlets for examples
    • the performance data is still available via structured properties in these object types' "normal" Get-* cmdlets, as introduced in v0.6.0, but the performance-specific cmdlets aim to get the pertinent info on one screen
  • added Get-XIODataProtectionGroup for getting XIO data-protection-groups (available in XIOS API v2.4 and up)
  • added Get-XIOEvent for getting XIO events (available in XIOS API v2.4 and up)
  • updated Get-XIOLunMap with new parameters for filtering return: -Volume, -InitiatorGroup, -HostLunId
  • removed default of checking original API port of 42503 (which was in use in XIOS versions 2.2.2 and older); now uses either explicitly specified port or default of 443 (the default port in XIOS versions 2.2.3 and newer)
  • other & under the covers:
    • added DataReduction property to XioItemInfo.Cluster objects; this is the ratio of data reduction provided by deduplication and by compression. In arrays without compression (arrays with XIOS older that v3.0), DataReduction -eq DedupeRatio
    • added URL encoding helper function
    • added URI property to Get-XIOItemInfo output objects
    • renamed "ig-name" property to "InitiatorGroup" for XioItemInfo.Lun-Map objects (as returned by Get-XIOLunMap)

v0.6.0

24 Sep 2014

Added discreet Get-* cmdlets for the types supported by this module, added PerformanceInfo property to many types, added support for XIOS v3.0beta, and more! The list:

  • included new properties available in XIOS v2.4.0:
    • updated Cluster info objects with new properties EncryptionMode and EncryptionSupported for encryption-related info, SizeAndCapacity for "numBrick X brickSize" info, latency statistics
    • updated SSD info object with new property EncryptionStatus
  • included new properties available in XIOS v3.0:
    • updated Cluster info objects with new properties CompressionFactor, CompressionMode, DataReduction, SharedMemEfficiencyLevel, SharedMemInUseRatioLevel
  • updated behavior of a supporting, internal Get- function: throws error now rather than writing to error stream and calling break; old behavior would render try/catch statements useless, as it would break all the way out, even of the try/catch statement's parent loop statement, if any
  • added ReadMe file with helpful tidbits on how to use the module
  • added Get-* functions for all object types supported by this module (versus using Get-XIOItemInfo for each/every type, added this is the more PowerShell-y; under consideration for long time, available in this release due partially to request by R.C. Monster)
  • added support for getting snapshots info
  • added pile of performance-related properties in PerformanceInfo property to pertinent objects (clusters, initiators, initiator-groups, ig-folders, targets, volumes, volume-folders)
  • added FCIssue property and additional configuration properties to targets info
  • updated PowerShellVersion of module to 4.0

v0.5.6

10 Jun 2014

Great new feature: store encrypted credential for use with subsequent Get-XIOItemInfo and New-XIO* calls. Can now store once, and use other functions from this module without passing further credentials -- the credentials will be auto-detected if present. One can remove this credential file at will, and return to passing credentials explicitly to each call, as before. And, the encrypted credential is encrypted using the Windows Data Protection API, which allows only the user the encrypted the item to decrypt the item (and, can only do so from the same computer on which the item was encrypted).

The list:

  • added New-XIOStoredCred function for encrypting and storing credential for use in subsequent calls
  • added Get-XIOStoredCred function for retrieving previously stored (and encrypted) credential
  • added Remove-XIOStoredCred function for removing stored credential
  • updated Get-XIOItemInfo, New-XIOVolume, and New-XIOInitiatorGroup to check for stored credential and use it, if no credential value was provided
  • updated Get-XIOItemInfo to return precise values, and handle the output formatting with ps1xml (was previously returning less precise values)

v0.5.5

28 May 2014

  • added New-XIOInitiatorGroup function for creating new initiator-group
  • added New-XIOVolume function for creating new volume
  • added Open-XIOMgmtConsole function for opening XtremIO management console
  • updated Get-XIOItemInfo to accept URI (increasing reusability by other functions)
  • changed module name to "XtremIO.Utils", as module now does more than just "get" operations
  • updated IOPS property types to be [int64] instead of the default [string] that they were

v0.5.1

25 Apr 2014

  • added new ItemType types of targets and controllers
  • updated format.ps1xml to include formatting for two new types

v0.5.0

Initial release, 24 Apr 2014.