9.5 Update4 - New cmdlets?

[notrootbeer]

We're currently testing the RTM (update4) for our tape backup jobs and we're wondering if you could share with us the new cmdlet to set the Tape Library Roles to either 'Active' or 'Passive'. Is this something you can provide before the GA?

[Dima P.]

Hello notrootbeer,

If I am not mistaken we do not have cmdlets for this option. The setup of your tape library in the media pool is a one-time operation, so can you please elaborate why you want to script it? Thank you in advance!

[notrootbeer]

Hi Dima,

We have a script that runs before our tape jobs. It does a calculation of data to be backed up and then limits the number of tape drives per media pool so that job(s) don't use more tapes/drives than necessary. Here's a snippet of our script:

elseif (($UsedSpace -ge 6.0) -and ($UsedSpace -lt 8.0)) {
Write-host "4 drives"
Set-VBRTapeMediaPool -MediaPool DailyBackup -Library Library1,Library2,Library3,Library4 -EnableMultiStreaming:$true -NumberOfStreams 4 -SplitJobFilesBetweenDrives:$true

While we have manually set all of our tape libraries to be ACTIVE, this script would override that setting and set just Library1 as Active and then the other three will be Passive. We want to keep them all Active. Since the Active/Passive option is new in update4, we would like to know if there's a working cmdlet to set this.

[Dima P.]

notrootbeer,

Thanks for the clarification. I've noted the improvement request for the next version (or patch). We will also discuss your script issue with the tape team. Stay tuned.