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Windows Cluster Scripting with WMI and PowerShell

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Windows 2008 R2 includes a failoverclusters PowerShell module, but you’ll probably find normal usage limiting for several reasons:

  • Only works on Windows 2008 R2 clusters
  • Requires the cluster service which in effect makes it difficult to run remotely except via PSRemoting
  • Implements specialized data types instead of using WMI

Although I like seeing PowerShell coverage of products, the failoverclusters module seems like a step backwards from Windows 2003 cluster.exe. In Windows 2003 every server installation had a cluster management MMC as well as the command-line utility cluster.exe. The cool thing is you could go to any Windows 2003 machine or Windows XP machine and as long as the admin tools were installed you could manage a cluster remotely from the command-line.

If you’re managing a mixed environment which includes Windows 2003 or you want more flexibility in managing Windows 2008 R2 clusters there’s good coverage in the Failover Clusters WMI provider. All that is needed is to create a few simple functions are the WMI classes. The script  LibraryMSCS.ps1 posted on PoshCode provides some core functions for retrieving or modifying cluster configurations. Here’s some sample output below…

PS C:\users\public\bin> . .\LibraryMSCS.ps1
PS C:\users\public\bin> get-cluster CLUMPXM
 
Name                            : CLUMPXM
 
PS C:\users\public\bin> get-clustername CLUMPXM
CLUMPXM
PS C:\users\public\bin> get-clusternode CLUMPXM
 
Cluster                     : CLUMPXM
...
Name                        : CLUMP2XP
 
Cluster                     : CLUMPXM
...
Name                        : CLUMP1XP
 
PS C:\users\public\bin> get-clusternode CLUMPXM | select cluster,Name
 
Cluster                                                     Name                                                       
-------                                                     ----                                                       
CLUMPXM                                                CLUMP2XP                                              
CLUMPXM                                                CLUMP1XP                                              
 
PS C:\users\public\bin> get-clustersqlvirtual CLUMPXM 
 
Cluster           : CLUMPXM
Name              : SQL Server (SQLPROD2)
State             : 2
VirtualServerName : CANARY
InstanceName      : SQLPROD2
ServerInstance    : CANARY\SQLPROD2
Node              : CLUMP2XP
 
PS C:\users\public\bin> get-clusternetworkname CLUMPXM 
 
Cluster     : CLUMPXM
Name        : SQL Network Name (CANARY)
State       : 2
NetworkName : CANARY
Node        : CLUMP2XP
 
Cluster     : CLUMPXM
Name        : Cluster Name
State       : 2
NetworkName : CLUMPXM
Node        : CLUMP2XP
 
Cluster     : CLUMPXM
Name        : DOVE
State       : 2
NetworkName : DOVE
Node        : CLUMP2XP
 
PS C:\users\public\bin> get-clusterGroup CLUMPXM 
 
Cluster             : CLUMPXM
...
Node                : CLUMP2XP
PreferredNodes      : CLUMP1XP
...
Name                : SQL CANARY
..
State               : 0
Status              : 
 
Cluster             : CLUMPXM
Node                : CLUMP2XP
PreferredNodes      : {}
...
Name                : New Drives
...
State               : 0
 
Cluster             : CLUMPXM
Node                : CLUMP2XP
PreferredNodes      : {}
...
Name                : Cluster Group
...
State               : 0
Status              : 
 
Cluster             : CLUMPXM
Node                : CLUMP2XP
PreferredNodes      : {}
...
Name                : MSDTC
...
State               : 0
 
PS C:\users\public\bin> get-clusterresource CLUMPXM  | where {$_.Name -like "*SQL*CANARY*"}
 
Cluster                  : CLUMPXM
Node                     : CLUMP2XP
Group                    : SQL CANARY
...
Name                     : SQL Network Name (CANARY)
...
Type                     : Network Name
 
Cluster                  : CLUMPXM
Node                     : CLUMP2XP
Group                    : SQL CANARY
...
Name                     : SQL IP Address 1 (CANARY)
...
Type                     : IP Address

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