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44 Dell EMC SC Series: Microsoft Hyper-V Best Practices | CML1009
leveraging PowerShell, many of these manual steps could be automated making it easier to meet recovery
time objectives (RTO).
7.3 Best practices for PowerShell
GUI interfaces for the most part keep administrators safe by guiding their steps with wizards that provide
warning messages that help protect against inadvertently executing commands that are destructive. The
trade-off is that GUI functionality is sometimes limited.
PowerShell, on the other hand, generally allows administrators greater control of their environment — beyond
what can be done in a GUI. But with that power comes the inherent risk of undesired and unintended
consequences if mistakes are made. PowerShell will not always provide warning messages or prevent
destructive commands or scripts from running, resulting in data loss.
The customer is strongly advised to test PowerShell scripts in a non-production environment, and to use
extreme caution when configuring scripts that involve SC Series cmdlets to avoid unintentional data loss.
Many PowerShell examples specific to SC Series storage are provided in the
Dell Storage PowerShell SDK
Cookbook as mentioned above.