HPE 3PAR

A while back we migrated from our old EMC VNX to a new HPE 3PAR array. It all went fine but what kinda slipped our mind is that HPE’s best practice is to create a custom SATP rule that uses RoudRobin as path selection policy and a IOPS limit to 1 in stead of the default 1000. The steps are documented in the HPE 3PAR VMware ESX/ESXi Implementation Guide, but they only show you how to do it through the esx cli....

Lately, I’ve had the pleasure of using Powershell to automate some of the basic tasks we do on our HPE 3PAR systems: creating volumes, adding them to volume sets, exporting them and so on. Since my experience with REST APIs was rather limited it was quite daunting at first but once you get the hang of how REST works and the Invoke-RestMethod cmdlet it’s really not that bad. Disclaimer: The examples below will vary somewhat in how I do certain things, simply because I had to learn all this from scratch....