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File Services Getting Started Cmdlets

The document provides documentation and examples for managing storage, virtual disks, volumes, shares, and other file server resources using Windows PowerShell cmdlets. It includes summaries of cmdlets for tasks like creating and managing storage pools, virtual disks, SMB/NFS shares, iSCSI targets, quotas, reports, clusters, and DFS namespaces. Examples are given for common operations like creating shares, disks, and management jobs.

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File Services Getting Started Cmdlets

The document provides documentation and examples for managing storage, virtual disks, volumes, shares, and other file server resources using Windows PowerShell cmdlets. It includes summaries of cmdlets for tasks like creating and managing storage pools, virtual disks, SMB/NFS shares, iSCSI targets, quotas, reports, clusters, and DFS namespaces. Examples are given for common operations like creating shares, disks, and management jobs.

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Storage (for more cmdlets run gcm module Storage )

Physical Disks List all physical disks List all physical disks sorted from large to small List all physical disks that are currently associate with a pool List all storage pools Create a new storage pool named Pool1 with 2 disks Get-PhysicalDisk Get-PhysicalDisk | Sort Size -Descending Get-StoragePool -IsPrimordial $false| Get-PhysicalDisk Get-StoragePool $pDisks= Get-PhysicalDisk $s=Get-StorageSubSystem New-StoragePool -FriendlyName "Pool1" -PhysicalDisks $pDisks[0] , $pDisks[1] -StorageSubSystemFriendlyName $s.FriendlyName New-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName "VD1" -StoragePoolFriendlyName "Pool1" -Size 100GB -ResiliencySettingName "Mirror" -ProvisioningType Thin New-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName "VD1" -StoragePoolFriendlyName "Pool1" -ResiliencySettingName "Parity" -UseMaximumSize Remove-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName "VD1" Get-Disk Get-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName "VD1" | get-disk | Initialize-Disk -PartitionStyle "MBR" Get-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName "VD1" | get-disk | New-Partition -Size 50GB -DriveLetter P Format-Volume -DriveLetter P -FileSystem NTFS -NewFileSystemLabel "Data Format-Volume -DriveLetter P -FileSystem ReFS -Confirm:$false

Data Deduplication (for more cmdlets run gcm module Deduplication )


Volume Get all Dedup volumes Enable deduplication on a volume Set deduplication volume configuration Get volume status Schedule Get scheduled jobs Set Optimization Schedule Jobs Start an optimization job Get all running jobs Get-DedupVolume Enable-DedupVolume P:

Storage Pool

Virtual Disk

Disk Volume

Create a 100GB virtual disk using the Mirror resiliency type and thin provisioning Create the biggest possible virtual disk using the Parity resiliency type and fixed provisioning. Simple (no resiliency) is another resiliency choice. Remove (delete) a virtual disk named VD1 List all disks visible to Windows Initialize a disk with a GPT partition on the new virtual disk Create a 50GB Partition and assign the drive letter P Format drive P with the NTFS file system and the label Data Format an ReFS volume and skip confirmation

Set-DedupVolume P: -ExcludeFileType "txt", "log" -MinimumFileAgeDays 10 Get-DedupStatus P: Get-DedupSchedule Set-DedupSchedule ThroughputOptimization-2 -Type Optimization -Start "2:00 AM" -Days "Sunday","Saturday" Start-DedupJob P: -Type Optimization
Get-DedupJob

iSCSI Target Server (for more cmdlets run gcm module iSCSITarget )
iSCSI Virtual Disk Create a new 400 MB iSCSI virtual disk Get all iSCSI virtual disks Remove an iSCSI virtual disk Create a new iSCSI target Unmask the target initiators (with IQN or DNS name list)
Get all iSCSI targets Remove a target Map an iSCSI target to a VHD Get all connected LUNs

New-IscsiVirtualDisk -Path "c:\Iscsi\Data\SQL1.vhd" -size 400MB Get-IscsiVirtualDisk Remove-IscsiVirtualDisk Path "c:\Iscsi\Data\SQL1.vhd"


New-IscsiServerTarget -TargetName "SQLDisks" Set-IscsiServerTarget -TargetName "SQLDisks" -initiatorId "IQN: iqn.1991-05.com.contoso:SQL1.contoso.com", "DNSNAME:SQL2.contoso.com" Get-iscsiTarget Remove-IscsiServerTarget TargetName "SQLDisks" Add-IscsiVirtualDiskTargetMapping -Path "c:\Iscsi\Data\SQL1.vhd" -TargetName SQLDisks Get-IscsiServerTarget | where {$_.Status -eq "Connected"} | fl LunMappings

Server Target

Shares (for more cmdlets run gcm module SMBShare and gcm module NFS )
SMB Shares Get All SMB shares Create a new SMB share named SmbShare1 on path C:\Shares\SmbShare1 with full access granted to Contoso\User1 Remove the SMB share SmbShare1 from the server Get SMB server configurations Get All NFS shares Create a new NFS Share named NFSShare1 with Krb5 authentication and Root access denied Remove the share NfsShare1 from the machine Get NFS server configuration Create a new client group ClientGrp1 and add localhost as member of the client group Get-smbshare New-SmbShare -Name "SmbShare1" -Path "c:\Shares\SmbShare1" -FullAccess "Contoso\User1"

SMB Server NFS Shares

NFS Server

Remove-SmbShare -Name "SmbShare1" Get-SmbClientConfiguration Get-NFSShare New-NfsShare -Name "NfsShare1" -Path "c:\NFS1" -Authentication krb5 -AllowRootAccess $false Remove-NfsShare -Name "NfsShare1" Get-NfsServerConfig New-NfsClientgroup -ClientGroupName "ClientGrp1" -AddMember "localhost"

Mapping
Sessions

iSCSI Initiator (for more cmdlets run gcm module iSCSI )


Target Discover the iSCSI Target Server Get the portal object $Target==New-iSCSITargetPortal -TargetPortalAddress 10.20.30.40 $Portal = Get-iSCSITargetPortal Connect-iSCSITarget -NodeAddress $Target.NodeAddress Get-IscsiSession | where IsConnected -eq $true Register-IscsiSession -SessionIdentifier (GetIscsiSession)[1].SessionIdentifier

File Server Resource Manager (for more cmdlets run gcm module FileServerResourceManager )
File Management Tasks Create a file management task that moves old (expired) HR files to a designated directory $action = New-FsrmFmjAction -ExpirationFolder "c:\Expired" -Type "Expiration" $sched = New-FsrmScheduledTask -Time "21:59" -Weekly "Sunday" $condition = New-FsrmFmjCondition -Condition "LessThan" -DateOffset "-360" -Property File.DateCreated -Value Date.Now New-FsrmFileManagementJob -Name "Expiration11" -Action $action -Schedule $sched -Condition $condition -Namespace "c:\Shares\HR" $QuotaTemplate = Get-FsrmQuotaTemplate -Name Monitor 500 MB Share" New-FsrmQuota -Path c:\Shares\HR -Template $QuotaTemplate.Name $Report = New-FsrmStorageReport -Name "LargeFilesReport" -LargeFileMinimum 100MB ReportFormat "Text" -Namespace "c:\Shares\HR " -ReportType "LargeFiles" -interactive | Wait-FsrmStorageReport Get-ChildItem -Path $Report.LastReportPath -Recurse | where { $_.Name -like "Large*.txt"} | Get-Content Set-FsrmAdrSetting -Event "AccessDenied" -Enabled:$true -DisplayMessage "Access to the share is restricted" -AllowRequests:$true -EmailMessage "Please grant me access to the share." -MailTo [email protected] -MailToOwner:$true

Portal

Connect Connect to a target Session Get the current active sessions Make the iSCSI connection persistent

Quotas

Storage Reports

Get the specified quota template Create a quota that applies the specified quota template Create an interactive storage report on large files and list the contents

Failover Clustering (for more cmdlets run gcm module FailoverClusters )


Create a new cluster Assign cluster disks Add a new File Server role New-Cluster Name "Clu1" Node "N1","N2" Get-ClusterAvailableDisk | Add-ClusterDisk Add-ClusterFileServerRole Name FSCluster Storage "Cluster Disk 1"

AccessDenied Assistance

Enables customized access denied messages for shares on this server and allows access requests to be sent to the server admin and share owner

DFS Namespaces (for more cmdlets run gcm module DFSN )


Name spaces Create a new standalone based namespace Get server config New-DFSNamespace -NamespaceRootTarget \\FSServer Type Standalone -NamespaceRoot \\FSServer\Share1 Get-DFSNamespaceServerConfig -NamespaceServer \\FS1

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