Automating VNX Snapshots with EMC Storage Integrator Powershell

I've been working on automating snapshot creation for a bunch of datastores for one of our applications. In the past I would have written a PowerShell wrapper for the old Navisphere CLI, but I thought I would check to see if the PowerShell module for EMC VNX had gotten any better.

It has! Very much better!

Some of the nice features I have noticed while working on this script:

• You can connect to multiple storage arrays and search for LUNs across arrays.
• Once you have the LUN objects you can work on them and not need to care which SAN they are on.

I have published the script here on my GitHub.

The script is intended to be scheduled to run on a daily basis and will automatically clear any snapshots older than the 'expireDays' parameter.

The script will detect which type of LUN is passed in and will create a pool based snapshot for pool LUNs and a SnapView snapshot for RAID based LUNs.

Comments and improvements always welcome.

An example for running the script follows: