Install the module:<\/strong><\/p>\n Connect to OVC:<\/strong><\/p>\n and away you go!<\/p>\n You will find all the commands on the page listed above.<\/p>\n 1- Create Manual backup and retain for 4 days<\/p>\n 2- Get all backups for server “SRV1” on the “DR” cluster that were created before 31st December 2020<\/p>\n This is a simple Daily Report I created which gives me:<\/p>\n Here is an example of the Report:<\/p>\n To be honest, the hardest thing about setting up this report for me was getting the HTML right so it formats properly. Getting the data I needed was relatively easy.<\/p>\n Below is the code I used for my report. I set this to run as a scheduled task daily.<\/p>\n An issue with Flash in the web browser and the version of Simplivity we are running forced my hand to learn to manage the backups using PowerShell. I started managing the backups through the Simplivity CLI but then discovered there was an PowerShell API which made life a lot easier. If you have experience using […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spktechfit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spktechfit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spktechfit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spktechfit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spktechfit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.spktechfit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":589,"href":"https:\/\/www.spktechfit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions\/589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spktechfit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spktechfit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spktechfit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spktechfit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}PS C:\\> Install-Module -Name HPESimpliVity<\/pre>\n
PS C:\\> $Cred = Get-Credential -Message 'Enter OVC\/MVA Credentials'\r\nPS C:\\> Connect-SVT -OVC -Credential $Cred<\/pre>\n
Examples<\/h3>\n
New-SVTbackup -VmName SRV1-DestinationName DR -BackupName SRV1_ManualBackup -RetentionDay 4<\/pre>\n
Get-SVTbackup -VmName SRV1 -DestinationName DR -CreatedBefore \"31\/12\/2020\"<\/pre>\n
Backup Report<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\n#Date Information to be used in the headers<\/span>\r\n$TodaysDate<\/span> = (Get-Date).ToString('yyyy-MM-dd')\r\n$LastWeek<\/span> = (Get-Date).Adddays(-7).ToString('dd\/MM\/yyyy')\r\n\r\n#Get Creds to login to OVC. This is covered in the https:\/\/developer.hpe.com\/blog\/hpe-simplivity-powershell-module\/<\/span>\r\n$Cred<\/span> = Import-CLIXML .\\OVCcred.XML\r\n\r\n#Connect to OVC<\/span>\r\nConnect-SVT -OVC (IP of your OVC)<\/em> -Credential $cred<\/span>\r\n\r\n#Location to save report<\/span>\r\n$reportLocation<\/span> = \"\\\\Server\\Reports\\SimplivityReport-$TodaysDate<\/span>.html\"\r\n\r\n#Create HTML Table<\/span>\r\n$head<\/span> = @\u2019\r\n<style>\r\nbody { background-color:#dddddd;\r\nfont-family:Tahoma;\r\nfont-size:12pt; }\r\ntd, th { border:1px solid black;\r\nborder-collapse:collapse; }\r\nth { color:white;\r\nbackground-color:black; }\r\ntable, tr, td, th { padding: 2px; margin: 0px }\r\ntable { margin-left:50px; }\r\n<\/style>\r\n\u2018@\r\n\r\n\r\n#-------Building Report--------------#<\/span>\r\n\r\n#Get Host Information - Name, Cluster, Freespace, Usedspace, IP<\/span>\r\n$hostInfo<\/span> = Get-SVThost | Select HostName, ClusterName, FreeSpaceGB, UsedCapacityGB,ManagementIP | ConvertTo-Html -PreContent \"<h2>Host Information<\/h2>\" | Out-String\r\n\r\n#Get backups with the backup state \"Failed\" that were created in the last week <\/span>\r\n$FailedBackups<\/span> =\"\"\r\nTry\r\n{\r\n$FailedBackups<\/span> = Get-SVTbackup -BackupState FAILED -CreatedAfter $LastWeek |Select VMNAme, BackupState, CreateDate, DestinationName | ConvertTo-Html -PreContent \"<h2>Failed Backups<\/h2>\" | Out-String\r\n}\r\ncatch { $FailedBackups<\/span> = ConvertTo-Html -PreContent \"<h2>No FAILED Backups found<\/h2>\" | Out-String }\r\n\r\n#GEt last 200 backups<\/span>\r\n$Last200Backups<\/span> = GEt-SVTBackup -limit 200 -Hour 1000| Select VMNAme, BackupState, CreateDate, DataStoreName, DestinationName, SentMB, SizeGB | ConvertTo-Html -PreContent \"<h2>Last 200 Backups<\/h2>\" | Out-String\r\n\r\n#Set Display Title<\/span>\r\n$DisplayTitle<\/span> = \"Simplivity Server Report: \" + (Get-Date).ToString('dd\/MM\/yyyy')\r\n\r\n#Create Report<\/span>\r\nConvertTo-Html -Head $head<\/span> -Title \"Simplivity Report\" -Body (GEt-date) -PostContent $hostInfo<\/span>,$FailedBackups<\/span>, $Last200Backups<\/span> -PreContent \u201c<h1>$DisplayTitle<\/h1>\u201d > $reportLocation<\/span>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"