Get-EmcAvailableDriveLetter

Gets the available drive letters on a host system or a cluster system.

Syntax

• Get-EmcAvailableDriveLetter [-HostSystem] <IHostSystem> [-Silent] [<CommonParameters>]

• Get-EmcAvailableDriveLetter [-Silent] [-ClusterSystem] <IClusterSystem> [<CommonParameters>]

Parameters

-HostSystem <IHostSystem>

Attributes: Required, Position: 1

Specifies the ESI host system object. You can add a host system object to ESI by using the Get-EmcHostSystemCredential and Connect-EmcSystem cmdlets. You can get a host system object by using the Get-EmcHostSystem cmdlet. The object can be a stand-alone host system, a virtual machine, or a hypervisor.

-ClusterSystem <IClusterSystem>

Attributes: Required, Position: 1

Specifies the ESI host system object. You can add a host system object to ESI by using the Get-EmcHostSystemCredential and Connect-EmcSystem cmdlets. You can get a host system object by using the Get-EmcHostSystem cmdlet. It can be a stand-alone host system, a virtual machine, or a hypervisor.

-Silent <SwitchParameter>

Attributes: Optional, Position: named

Turns off all the informational and verbose messages. However, it still displays errors.

<CommonParameters>

This cmdlet supports these common parameters: Verbose, Debug, ErrorAction, ErrorVariable, WarningAction, WarningVariable, OutBuffer, and OutVariable. Type get-help about_commonparameters for more details.

Examples

-------------- Example 1 --------------

C:\PS>$h = Get-EmcHostSystem *.148

C:\PS>$drives = Get-EmcAvailableDriveLetter -HostSystem $h

C:\PS>$drives[0]

G

C:\PS>$drives.count

20

This example gets the available drive letters from a host system.

-------------- Example 2 --------------

C:\PS>$c = Get-EmcClusterSystem

C:\PS>$drives = $c | Get-EmcAvailableDriveLetter

C:\PS>$drives.count

15

C:\PS>$drives[14]

Y

C:\PS>

This example gets the available drive letters from a cluster system.