How to connect to ANF using PowerShell
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What is Azure NetApp Files?
Azure NetApp Files, popularly known as ANF, is a high-performance file storage offered by Microsoft Azure. If an enterprise or a user has a NAS workload, and/or are familiar with NetApp, then ANF can be a good fit.
ANF provides flexibility in selecting the capacity and performance service levels, catering a variety of performance sensitive workloads. It has a holistic Data Protection and Security Management features, ensuring the safety of data.
More information can be found here: What is Azure NetApp Files | Microsoft Learn
Important considerations before we connect ANF using PowerShell
Enable ANF in subscription:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-netapp-files/azure-netapp-files-register
Check ANF availability by region
Check and unlock Resource limits:
Steps
Install Az.NetAppFiles Module
Install-Module -Name Az.NetAppFiles
(Link for documentation and other cmdlet: Az.NetAppFiles Module | Microsoft Learn)
Connect to Azure Account
Connect-AzAccount
Get a list of all the Azure subscriptions
Get-AzSubscription
Connect to specific subscription using SubscriptionId from Step 3
Set-AzContext -Subscription -Subscription <SubscriptionId>
Get a list of resource groups to identify resource group where ANF resources exists
Get-AzResourceGroup
(If the command doesn’t work, then install Az.Resources module using Install-Module Az.Resources)
Display ANF account details
Get-AzNetAppFilesAccount -ResourceGroupName <resourceGroup>
Display capacity pool details
Get-AzNetAppFilesPool -ResourceGroupName <resourceGroup> -AccountName <anfAccountName>
Display the volume details
Get-AzNetAppFilesVolume -ResourceGroupName <resourceGroup> -AccountName <anfAccountName> -PoolName <poolname>
References:
If you want to retrieve details of snapshots in a csv, checkout my GitHub : Azure_NetApp_Files_Retrieve_Snapshots_Details_Using_PowerShell/ANF_PS_Snapshots.ps at main · greyknight28/Azure_NetApp_Files_Retrieve_Snapshots_Details_Using_PowerShell
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