How to retrieve HA Device Serial-Id via powershell?

[serhiogo]

Hello collegues!

Could you pls prompt me how to retrieve HA Device Serial-Id via powershell?
This red-marked one:



This is neither "DeviceId" nor "TargetId" values, and I cannot find it neither in the "$server.Devices" nor in the "$server.Targets" structure output at all...

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WBR, Serhio Go

[Boris (staff)]

What's your use case that might require this information?
To the best of my knowledge, this is not available in StarWindX, but you can get a workaround for this. You can parse the swdsk file as XML and get the value from header.device.storages.storage.inquiry.serial_id
Let me know whether that fits your needs.

[serhiogo]

What's your use case that might require this information?

The Starwind presents its devices to iSCSI clients by this Id.
For example, to the ESXi.

Starwind view:



ESXi view:



If I've got several devices to add (especially having the same size) I can recognize every one only by this Id on the ESXi side.

To the best of my knowledge, this is not available in StarWindX, but you can get a workaround for this. You can parse the swdsk file as XML and get the value from header.device.storages.storage.inquiry.serial_id
Let me know whether that fits your needs.

It look like what I seek, thanks.

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WBR, Serhio Go

[Boris (staff)]

While going with the serial ID the suggested way should be fine, I'd rather prefer working with the target names, for which StarWindX is able to output information. But this can be merely a matter of preference though.

[serhiogo]

While going with the serial ID the suggested way should be fine, I'd rather prefer working with the target names, for which StarWindX is able to output information. But this can be merely a matter of preference though.

It's more comfortable to use target names of course but not in this case. All I see in ESXI for the moment of new datastore mount is Starwind Device Id.

I wrote a little tricky PS script already, thanx again =]




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WBR, Serhio Go

[Boris (staff)]

Nice to hear I was able to push you to the right direction.

[MBerthe]

Hi,

I wrote a little tricky PS script already, thanx again =]

serhiogo, can you share your script?
Thanks a lot.

[MBerthe]

Hi,
If you want to find the serial number of a StarWind Disk, you can use this script part:

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$DeviceToCreateFilePath="My Computer\C\StarWind"
$DeviceToCreateFileName="ImageFile01"
[XML]$ImageFileConfig = (Get-Content -Path "$(($DeviceToCreateFilePath.Substring(("My Computer\").Length)).insert(1,":"))\$($DeviceToCreateFileName).swdsk") -replace "`0",""
$DiskSerialNumber=$ImageFileConfig.header.device.storages.storage.inquiry.serial_id

@StarWind teams, the swdsk file contains null characters. Can you clean the XML file?

Have a nice day

[Michael (staff)]

MBerthe,
Null characters were added there intentionally and are not going to be removed.
You can remove them if you want but we do not recommend doing it for proper program work.

[MBerthe]

Hi Michael,
I have already manage this null characters in my code with

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-replace "`0",""

Thanks for your reply, take care

[yaroslav (staff)]

MBerthe,

Thanks for the update! Good luck in PowerShell.
Let us know if there is anything else we can assist you with.