If you read my previous blog article on PowerShell Function to Determine the Installed VSS Providers then you’re already aware that I recently migrated one of my customers to a Nimble Storage Area Network. While Nimble does have a PowerShell module and it’s decent, I wanted to see how difficult it is to work with their REST API directly with PowerShell. Their REST API documentation also seems to be decent.

Recently, I received notification from EqualLogic support that there could be issues with their storage area networks running firmware version 7.0.x at 248 consecutive days of uninterrupted operation and they recommend updating to firmware version 7.0.9 to correct (and prevent) the problem. While I know that I have EqualLogic storage area networks running in some of the data-centers I support, I’m not sure what version of firmware they’re running or what the uptime on them is so I’ll use PowerShell (of course) to determine this information.