PowerFlex 4.5 Node expansion in SO service gets failed when selected SLES node as reference node.
Summary: PowerFlex Manager version 4.5, SO service node expansion fails when we select the SLES node as the reference node during the expansion.
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Symptoms
SLES node expansion will default pick the CentOS image.
Cause
Add Existing Service was performed with mixed OS type with Intelligent Catalog and custom CentOS image.
After the brownfield, The SLES node expansion was picking the CentOS image instead of SLES in the deployment workflow in 4.5 though the OS image was set to "Use Compliance File Linux image" in the Resource Group.
After the brownfield, The SLES node expansion was picking the CentOS image instead of SLES in the deployment workflow in 4.5 though the OS image was set to "Use Compliance File Linux image" in the Resource Group.
Resolution
- IC does not contain SLES image
- Manually upload the SLES image.
- Modify the Resource Group to set the SLES image and perform the SLES node Expansion
Article Properties
Article Number: 000217851
Article Type: Solution
Last Modified: 09 Jun 2025
Version: 2
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