Create a view volume in a different directory than source volume with Powershell

Hello ATEAGunnar,
Based upon the commands you specified you are using Dell Storage PowerShell SDK.

Looking at the Dell Storage PowerShell SDK Cookbook: http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/extras/m/white_papers/20441893

Section 3.6.2 Create a view volume on a snapshot

# Assign variables
$ConnName = "DSMDC"
$ScName = "SC 13"
$VolumeName = "SQLData"
$VolumeFolderPath = "Production/SQLDatabase/SQLProd/"
$ViewVolumeName = $VolumeName + " View"

I would add one more variable to this list:
$ViewVolumeFolder = "ViewVolumeFolder"

Then when you create the view volume:

# Create the view volume in the same folder as the volume
$ViewVolume = New-DellScReplayView -ConnectionName $ConnName `
-Instance $Replay `
-Name $ViewVolumeName `
-VolumeFolder $ViewVolumeFolder

Unfortunately I do not have a lab system to test this on to verify.

Thanks for the replay @DELL-Bob Mi that pointed me in the correct direction.

There was a section in the Cookbook around moving Volumes to a different folder.

so my solution was to first create the volume in the same folder as the original and then move it tio the correct folder.

Like this:

################## Create View Volumes from snapshot ########################

write-host "create new volumes from snapshot..."

# Get the volumes
$VolumeD = Get-DellScVolume -ConnectionName $ConnName `
-ScName $ScName `
-VolumeFolderPath $VolumeFolderPath `
-Name $VolumeNameD
$VolumeL = Get-DellScVolume -ConnectionName $ConnName `
-ScName $ScName `
-VolumeFolderPath $VolumeFolderPath `
-Name $VolumeNameL

# Get the latest frozen snapshot (Replay) on the volume
$ReplayD = Get-DellScReplay -ConnectionName $ConnName `
-ScName $ScName `
-CreateVolume $VolumeD `
-Active:$false `
| Sort-Object { [datetime]$_.FreezeTime }, `
{ [UInt32] ( $_.GlobalIndex.Split( "-" ) )[-1] } `
| Select-Object -Last 1

$ReplayL = Get-DellScReplay -ConnectionName $ConnName `
-ScName $ScName `
-CreateVolume $VolumeL `
-Active:$false `
| Sort-Object { [datetime]$_.FreezeTime }, `
{ [UInt32] ( $_.GlobalIndex.Split( "-" ) )[-1] } `
| Select-Object -Last 1

########## Create view volumes ########

$ViewVolumeD = New-DellScReplayView -ConnectionName $ConnName `
-Instance $ReplayD `
-Name $ViewVolumeNameD

$ViewVolumeL = New-DellScReplayView -ConnectionName $ConnName `
-Instance $ReplayL `
-Name $ViewVolumeNameL

###### Move newly created voumes to the correct Volume folder ##########
# Get the new volume folder
$NVolumeFolder = Get-DellScVolumeFolder -ConnectionName $ConnName `
-ScName $ScName `
-FolderPath $SCVolumeFolderPath `
-Name $ScVolumeFolderName
# Move the volume

$DestinationD = Set-DellScVolume -ConnectionName $ConnName -Instance $ViewVolumeD -VolumeFolder $NVolumefolder

$DestinationL = Set-DellScVolume -ConnectionName $ConnName -Instance $ViewVolumeL -VolumeFolder $NVolumefolder