Error trying to retrieve all storage policies for datastore

[DaKernel]

Hello,

Running into an error while trying to retrieve all storage policies for a datastore. I am trying to retrieve this info so I can try to use powershell to do an instant recovery for a veeam windows agent restore. The Find-VBRViDatastore code below works like it should, it outputs DATASTORE1

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#Find-VBRViDatastore
$serverESXI = Get-VBRServer -Type ESXi -Name "esxiserver1"
$strDatastore = Find-VBRViDatastore -Server $serverESXI -Name "DATASTORE1"
write-host $strDatastore

This code will run and return all the storage policies

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#Find-VBRViStoragePolicy
$serverVC = Get-VBRServer -Name "vSphereServer"
Find-VBRViStoragePolicy -Server $serverVC

Now when I try to run this code, which is a combo of both pieces of code, the error message shows up

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#Find-VBRViDatastore
$serverESXI = Get-VBRServer -Type ESXi -Name "esxiserver1"
$strDatastore = Find-VBRViDatastore -Server $serverESXI -Name "DATASTORE1"

#Find-VBRViStoragePolicy
$serverVC = Get-VBRServer -Name "vSphereServer"
Find-VBRViStoragePolicy -Server $serverVC -Datastore $strDatastore

ERROR MESSAGE

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Find-VBRViStoragePolicy : Server should be host or cluster.
At C:\Scripts\Untitled7.ps1:17 char:1
+ Find-VBRViStoragePolicy -Server $serverVC -Datastore $strDatastore
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Find-VBRViStoragePolicy], Exception
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.Exception,Veeam.Backup.PowerShell.Cmdlets.FindVBRViStoragePolicy

The error "At C:\Scripts\Untitled7.ps1:17 char:1" is at this line Find-VBRViStoragePolicy -Server $serverVC -Datastore $strDatastore

I am alittle confused as to why adding the -Datastore $strDatastore to the line of code is causing the error.

Grateful for any pointers or help

TIA Luke

[david.domask]

Hi @DaKernel it indeed looks weird and I have the same in my lab. Let me try to check a few things (or maybe @@oleg.feoktistov knows already) but no known issues.

[DaKernel]

Hi @david.domask and @oleg.feoktistov, any update on this?

TIA Luke

[oleg.feoktistov]

Hi Larry,

The point of difference between your separate code snippets and a combo is this row:

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Find-VBRViStoragePolicy -Server $serverVC -Datastore $strDatastore

In the first case you used the cmdlet above without -Datastore parameter and it worked.
So, the issue is with -Server & -Datastore parameters used together. Now, I can see that you also tried to pass vCenter to -Server parameter to query storage policy by a specific datastore. In this case the exception you see is valid since you need to pass esxi host or cluster instead.
Nonetheless, if we use, for instance, an esxi host, the exception is the same, so looks like here comes a bug.
I'll discuss it with QA and update the thread on its status.

Thanks,
Oleg

[DaKernel]

Oleg,

Thank you, I was using an esxi host last week in the code and thought that was the issue and looked at the help pages more closely and was using the vCenter server and still had the issue.

TIA Luke

[david.domask]

Hi david.domask and oleg.feoktistov, any update on this?

TIA Luke

Still checking internally and discussing. I will update once we have an answer.

[DaKernel]

Thank you for staying on top of this David!

[david.domask]

Updating the thread, @DaKernel, thanks for reporting this. Our RND confirms there is an issue due to an incorrect check being done on VC hosts passed to Find-VBRViStorageEntity (Find-VBRViDatastore is impacted also).

The issue is set to be resolved in a future release so it will be handled

[DaKernel]

Thank you, David.

Is there a workaround at all?

[david.domask]

You're welcome!

For Find-VBRViDatastore, you can pass an ESXi host to get the datastores; you can pull the hosts with the GetChilds() method on the vCenter Object.

For Storage policies, regrettably right now there is no workaround. I would advise that until we get a fix in a future release, try passing some of the name outputs from Veeam to PowerCLI (for example, Get-SpbmEntityConfiguration)