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Release notes for Data ONTAP PowerShell Toolkit 2.3

Major features

• VSS requester

  Toolkit 2.3 includes four new cmdlets used to interact with VSS: Get-NaVssProvider, Get-NaVssSnapshot, Get-NaVssWriter, and Invoke-NaVssBackup. With these four cmdlets, the Toolkit can perform the basic functions of a VSS requester.

• SCSI XCOPY

  Most Toolkit cmdlets utilize WAFL block-cloning instead of copying data when appropriate. Two cmdlets, Repair-NaVirtualDiskAlignment and ConvertTo-NaVhd (for dynamic to fixed VHD conversion), will sometimes need to use a slower host-based copy when the WAFL blocks are not aligned. Toolkit 2.3 introduces the ability to use SCSI XCOPY to offload the copy operation to the Data ONTAP controller. This is enabled for 8.1.1 7-Mode and will be available for clustered ONTAP in a future release.

• Private key authentication for SSH

  Invoke-NaSsh and Invoke-NcSsh now include a new parameter, PrivateKeyFile, which allows the user to specify a private key file to use for SSH session authentication.

• Simplified queries with PowerShell 3

  With PowerShell 3 and Toolkit 2.3, powerful clustered ONTAP queries can be performed in a single command.

New cmdlets

• Get-NaCommand
• Get-NcCommand
• Get-NaVssProvider
• Get-NaVssSnapshot
• Get-NaVssWriter
• Invoke-NaVssBackup

Enhancements

• Added -PreserveEtcHosts and -PreserveEtcExports switches to cmdlets that use vfiler-setup.
• Output of Get-NaHelp and Get-NcHelp now contains a cmdlet synopsis.
• Set-NaUserPassword and Set-NcUserPassword will update controller connection if the credentials are affected.
• Updated Get-NaSystemLog regex for the messages log file and added ability to parse messages.5 log.

Fixes

• Running Set-NaVirtualDiskSize with a UNC path did not fail elegantly.
• VHDX files created with New-NaVirtualDisk without the -Dynamic switch still appeared as dynamic to Hyper-V.
• Snapshot creation DateTime was a UTC date with a Local DateTimeKind.
• Remove-NaCredential and Remove-NcCredential silently failed if the credential did not exist in the credential cache.
• Get-NaSystemLog may not properly parse date from the previous year.
• Get-NaVol and Get-NaVol -Terse sometimes omitted volumes.

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