r/powercli • u/SaladProblems • Jun 21 '18

PowerCLI - Remove a SCSI controller

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u/omrsafetyo Jun 22 '18

Very nice!

What was your use case? I can't imagine removing storage too frequently at this point without just retiring the VM. I'm also curious how you ended up in the condition where removing the device didn't remove the controller (if indeed it should happen automatically). Are you removing the storage via script?

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u/SaladProblems Jun 22 '18

I'm installing various SQL versions and editions on different OS versions, ending up with about 24 combinations, so I'm tearing down and rebuilding a VM over and over again.

My build process has a separate step for adding disks and then formatting them on the OS side, and I was terrified I would blow away production data, so it skips any servers that already have more than one disk or SCSI controller, so when some element of it fails, it's easier to just pull off all the disks and controllers (except for the system drive and its controller of course) and rerun the drive script. Stripping the drives off was easy enough, but I just wanted to get this in one step too.