Set-NetAppHost Slowly Diminishes Include list?

[cczinski]

I shall explain...

We need to add some volumes to our include list for each NetApp host on our VBR. So, I wrote some PowerShell to go ahead and loop through each NetApp Host on the VBR and run the following Veeam PowerShell commands to do this:

This to grab all the volumes for a NetApp Host

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 $volumes = Get-NetAppInfrastructureVolume -Host $appHost

Some other code is run to filter out the volumes we need to add to eventually populate this variable

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$volumesToAdd = $volumes | Where-Object {$missingVolumes.Name -contains $_.Name}

Then we just need to add the volumes to the include list with this

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Set-NetAppHost -Host $appHost -VolumeScanType Include -IncludedVolume $volumesToAdd

Wait about 2-5 mins for the list to update (not sure if that’s normal) and then it will have the new volumes I added.

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(Get-NetAppVolume -Host $appHost).Count
65

This is great until you check about 15 minutes or so later to see that the list you added volumes to, has now lost 8 volumes and is slowly going down every few minutes or so.

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(Get-NetAppVolume -Host $appHost).Count
57

I’m not quite sure what is going. I could maybe understand it removing the volumes I added which were like 2. But for it to then remove like 30 over the course of a few hours is kind of crazy.

Hoping I'm missing something like another parameter to actually not kill off the include list or something.

(side question) Is it normal that it takes like 2-5 minutes for the list to update after the command was successful?

[cczinski]

Nevermind this post, I miss understood how the IncludedVolume worked. I thought it would add to the list, not make the list what I gave it.

After giving the command all the volumes plus the 2 new ones I wanted, the list properly updated instantly in the GUI and a couple minutes later showed up properly from the PowerShell command.

Sorry about that.

[oleg.feoktistov]

Hi Carl,

Glad you could figure it out. That's the idea of all Set cmdlets. If you want to expand an array of included objects, you need to do it primarily to passing this array to the cmdlet parameter.

Thanks,
Oleg