- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Preface
- Introduction
- Linux
- Overview—deployment steps and options
- Preparation for deployment
- Download installation packages—Linux
- Prepare the DAX devices
- Install and configure the PowerFlex Gateway
- Install PowerFlex Gateway on Linux
- Install PowerFlex Gateway on Windows
- Configure PowerFlex Gateway properties
- Advanced and optional PowerFlex Gateway tasks
- Install the PowerFlex Gateway without assigning an admin password
- Reset PowerFlex Gateway password
- PowerFlex Gateway installation with a custom Java configuration
- Install Java on SUSE 12 servers
- Certificate management for PowerFlex Gateway
- Replace the default self-signed security certificate with your own trusted certificate
- Replace the default self-signed security certificate with your own self-signed certificate
- Non-default certificate use before and after a PowerFlex Gateway upgrade
- Configure OpenStack interoperation with the PowerFlex Gateway
- Generate a self-signed certificate using the keytool utility
- Using SSH authentication on the PowerFlex Gateway
- Preparation tasks for CoreOS, hLinux, Oracle Linux and Ubuntu
- Prepare the CSV file
- Clean the PowerFlex VMware environment
- Deploying PowerFlex using a non-root user
- Configure the OpenStack Nova Compute service
- Deploy PowerFlex
- Installation wizard
- Customizable installation using CSV file—hyper-converged system
- Customizable installation using CSV file—two-layer system
- Log in and upload installation packages
- Upload the CSV file
- Start the customized installation
- Complete the customized installation—two-layer system backend
- Install SDC on frontend servers
- Install the PowerFlex presentation server
- SDC (scini) driver configuration for SELinux
- Add components to a PowerFlex system—Linux
- VMware ESXi
- Overview—deployment steps
- Preparation for deployment
- Deploy PowerFlex using the vSphere PowerFlex plug-in
- Manually deploy PowerFlex on ESXi servers
- Manual Deployment of VxFlex OS on ESXi Servers
- Deploying the PowerFlex storage virtual machine (SVM)
- Manually install PowerFlex components on the SVMs
- Register the vSphere PowerFlex plug-in
- Install SDC on an ESXi server using the vSphere PowerFlex plug-in
- Install the SDC on an ESXi-based server and connect it to PowerFlex using esxcli
- Manually remove a VIB file from an ESXi host
- Add components to a PowerFlex system—ESXi
- PowerFlex Installer REST API
- PowerFlex VASA
- Post-deployment tasks
Deploy PowerFlex v3.5.x
Preface
As part of an effort to improve its product lines, Dell EMC periodically releases revisions of its software and hardware. Therefore, some functions described in this document might not be supported by all versions of the software or hardware currently in use. The product release notes provide the most up-to-date information on product features.
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