IBM Storage Automation Plug-in for PowerShell

The IBM® Storage Automation Plug-in for PowerShell offers lightweight commands in the Microsoft PowerShell environment (cmdlets) for provisioning and management of the IBM storage systems.

The plug-in package can be downloaded from Microsoft PowerShell Gallery (https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/SpectrumConnect-Client) and can then be deployed on a PowerShell host. It can also be used together with PowerCLI, Windows PowerShell interface for automating storage-related tasks in VMware vSphere environment.

After the plug-in is installed, storage-related cmdlets can be used in the PowerShell environment. The PowerShell runtime invokes these cmdlets for automated end-to-end storage provisioning, host mapping, volume expansion and other storage-related tasks. .

Figure 1. Integration of IBM storage systems in PowerShell environment
This image shows Spectrum Connect in a typical PowerShell environment.