PowerFlex: How to install SDC on Debian-based server (Debian, Ubuntu, Proxmox)

Retrieve SDC software

SDC drivers for manual installation are available from "PowerFlex Software" product page on the Dell support site:
PowerFlex Drivers and Downloads

From "Drivers & Downloads" section, search for "SDC Driver" as Keyword:

Download the "PowerFlex_*_SDCs_for_manual_install.zip" file matching the PowerFlex version intended to install. Be aware that the SDC is backwards and forwards compatible with PowerFlex system (see Release Notes).

Extract Debian-based package (.deb)

PowerFlex component packages are delivered as .tar files for Debian-based operating systems. Before installation, the .deb package must be extracted using provided siob_extract utility:

1. Extract SDC .zip file for your specific OS Release from "PowerFlex_*_SDCs_for_manual_install.zip" archive
2. Check integrity (md5 or sha256) and inflate the SDC .zip file
3. Uncompress "EMC-ScaleIO-sdc-*" .tar file
4. Extract .deb package using siob_extract utility

# Extract SDC for Debian 12 (bookworm) / Proxmox VE 8.x
unzip PowerFlex_*_SDCs_for_manual_install.zip "*Debian12_SDC.*"

# Check integrity & inflate zip file
cd PowerFlex_*_SDCs_for_manual_install/
sha256sum PowerFlex_*_Debian12_SDC.zip
cat PowerFlex_*_Debian12_SDC.sha256
unzip PowerFlex_*_Debian12_SDC.zip

# Extract .deb package (using `siob_extract` utility)
cd PowerFlex_*_Debian12_SDC/
tar -xvf EMC-ScaleIO-sdc-*.Debian12.x86_64.tar
chmod +x siob_extract
./siob_extract EMC-ScaleIO-sdc-*.Debian12.x86_64.siob
ls EMC-ScaleIO-sdc-*.Debian12.x86_64.deb

For other OS Release, use: "*Debian13_SDC*", "*Ubuntu24.04_SDC*", "..."

Install SDC on the server and connect it to PowerFlex

1. Collect MDM virtual IP addresses of the PowerFlex system (or all MDM managers IPs)
2. Install SDC package
3. Verify that the driver is loaded

MDM_IP="<MDM_IP1>,<MDM_IP2>,..." dpkg -i EMC-ScaleIO-sdc-*.deb
systemctl status scini.service

If scini.service fails to start, the "scini" driver is maybe not compatible with your kernel release.

 In this case, see how to configure DTA 226282: PowerFlex: Recommended FTP User Used For Automated SDC Driver Delivery For New Kernel - FTP Service Disable (Needs Customer login)

or PowerFlex: On-Demand compilation of PowerFlex SDC drivers on Linux.

Using PowerFlex: Enable Secure Boot Enforcement for PowerFlex Compute Nodes which has some restrictions and requires additional steps.

Refer to documentation for recommended post-deployment tasks or to map volumes to SDC.