Dell PowerFlex Appliance with PowerFlex 5.x Administration Guide

Introduction

This guide provides procedures for administering PowerFlex appliance.

This guide is applicable for PowerFlex software 5.0 and later managed by PowerFlex Manager 5.0 and later. For PowerFlex Manager 5.1.x managing PowerFlex software 4.5.5 and later, see the PowerFlex rack or PowerFlex appliance with PowerFlex 4.x documentation.

It provides the following information:

• Managing components
• Performing maintenance activities in a PowerFlex cluster
• Monitoring
• Network administration
• Storage administration
• Administering the CloudLink Center
• Backup and restore
• Powering on and off
• Usernames and password management
• System logs
• Migrating to NVMe over TCP on VMware ESXi

The target audience for this document includes system administrators responsible for managing PowerFlex appliance, and Dell personnel responsible for remote management.

SupportAssist is now known as Dell Technologies connectivity services. References in the documentation will be updated over time.

For additional PowerFlex appliance documentation, go to PowerFlex appliance technical documentation.