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andrea_moccia
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3 years ago
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Mount a VVOL datastore

Hello all, I'm trying to mount a VVOL datastore using Mount-PfaVvolDatastore - https://blog.purestorage.com/uncategorized/mounting-a-vvol-datastore-with-powercli/. This is working fine on windows but I need to do this from a linux container and having issues with the import of PureStorage.FlashArray.VMware. I have no problem importing and using other PowerShell SDK1/SDK2 modules on the container, but I think I need PureStorage.FlashArray.VMware to mount VVOL, or is there another recommended way of doing this? First error I get is about loading of PureStorage.FlashArray.VVol - see below. I can work around this by pointing directly to the psd1 but then it fails to load PureStorage.FlashArray.VMware.vVol.Replication.psm1 and even manually pointing to the psd1/psm1 doesn't seem to help.

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  • andrea_moccia's avatar
    andrea_moccia
    3 years ago
    found an alternative way of doing this, so I am good, thanks Alex $esxhost = get-vmhost _hostname_ $vvolname = "_vvol_ds_name_" $vvol = Get-Datastore $vvolname $id = $esxhost.ID.Split("-")[-1] $hds="HostDatastoreSystem-datastoreSystem-"+$id $spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.HostDatastoreSystemVvolDatastoreSpec $spec.Name = $vvol.Name $spec.ScId = $http://vvol.ExtensionData.Info|vvol.ExtensionData.Info.Url.Split("/")[5] $_this = Get-View -Id $hds $_this.CreateVvolDatastore($spec)
  • alex_carver's avatar
    alex_carver
    Novice I
    3 years ago
    Andrea, when you say "Trying to mount a VMFS datastore" with a mount vVol Datastore command, is that a typo or is that what you are doing?
  • alex_carver's avatar
    alex_carver
    Novice I
    3 years ago
    I'll double check to see if that cmdlet works correctly on the powershell core for linux/mac though. double checked with powershell core 7.2.5 for ubuntu and osx and it worked.
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    alex_carver
    Novice I
    3 years ago
    oh interesting, ya, same thing is happening for me when I just tried to do it with my ubuntu vm now, we tested these previously with both ubuntu and mac os. Odd that it's not working now.
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    alex_carver
    Novice I
    3 years ago
    for some reason the purestorage.flasharray.vmware.vvol module scripts aren't loading, but spbm and replication are which is odd. Even though it says they install, they still can't be imported/don't exist. I'll have to dig into that Which is funny, since the module for sure is there. ```PS /home/pureuser> dir ./.local/share/powershell/Modules/ Directory: /home/pureuser/.local/share/powershell/Modules UnixMode User Group LastWriteTime Size Name -------- ---- ----- ------------- ---- ---- drwxrwxr-x pureuser pureuser 8/10/2022 21:28 4096 PureStorage.FlashArray.VMware drwxrwxr-x pureuser pureuser 8/10/2022 21:28 4096 PureStorage.FlashArray.VMware.Configuration drwxrwxr-x pureuser pureuser 8/10/2022 21:28 4096 PureStorage.FlashArray.VMware.RDM drwxrwxr-x pureuser pureuser 8/10/2022 21:28 4096 PureStorage.FlashArray.VMware.Software drwxrwxr-x pureuser pureuser 8/10/2022 21:28 4096 PureStorage.FlashArray.VMware.VCF drwxrwxr-x pureuser pureuser 8/10/2022 21:28 4096 PureStorage.FlashArray.VMware.VMFS drwxrwxr-x pureuser pureuser 8/10/2022 21:28 4096 PureStorage.FlashArray.VMware.VVol drwxrwxr-x pureuser pureuser 8/10/2022 21:28 4096 PureStorage.FlashArray.VMware.VVol.Replication drwxrwxr-x pureuser pureuser 8/10/2022 21:28 4096 PureStorage.FlashArray.VMware.VVol.SPBM```
  • alex_carver's avatar
    alex_carver
    Novice I
    3 years ago
    not sure why this works, but if I load with the direct path to the module, then it imports correctly and then I can run the command ```PS /home/pureuser> Import-Module /home/pureuser/.local/share/powershell/Modules/PureStorage.FlashArray.VMware.VVol/2.0.1.1/PureStorage.FlashArray.VMware.Vvol.psm1 PS /home/pureuser> Mount-PfaVvolDatastore cmdlet Mount-PfaVvolDatastore at command pipeline position 1 Supply values for the following parameters: Cluster:```
  • andrea_moccia's avatar
    andrea_moccia
    Novice I
    3 years ago
    Yes this seems to work! But if you don't mind me taking more of your time, there seems to be an odd behavior. I am trying to mount the VVOL datastore from vSphere (so effectively that's example 2 in the article - https://blog.purestorage.com/uncategorized/mounting-a-vvol-datastore-with-powercli/) but it's erroring out with the following: