
Dell PowerFlex Rack with PowerFlex 4.x Administration Guide
- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Introduction
- Revision history
- Accessing PowerFlex rack components
- PowerFlex rack deployment types
- Managing components with PowerFlex Manager
- Add licenses to PowerFlex Manager
- Configuring VMware vCenter high availability
- Enable or disable SSH on the VMware ESXi host
- Performing maintenance activities in a PowerFlex cluster
- Monitoring system health
- Monitor system resources
- Management diagnostics
- Manage compliance
- Enabling Dell Technologies connectivity services
- Enabling Dell Technologies connectivity services for VMware ESXi
- Managing events and alerts
- CloudLink Center events and alerts
- Login banner
- Network management
- Modify the DNS entries
- Storage management
- Protection domains
- Fault sets
- Storage data servers
- Storage pools
- Acceleration pools
- Devices
- Volumes
- NVMe targets
- Hosts
- Managing system data networks in PowerFlex Manager
- Storage management for PowerFlex management cluster (ESXi)
- Configuring replication on PowerFlex nodes
- Redistribute the MDM cluster using PowerFlex Manager
- Set rebuild and rebalance settings
- Enabling or disabling SDC authentication
- PowerFlex file storage
- Multitenancy
- NAS server
- Create a NAS server for NFS (UNIX-only) file systems
- Create NAS server for SMB (Windows-only) file systems
- Change NAS server settings
- Configure settings of an existing NAS server
- Manage the network routes between the NAS server and the supported external services
- Modify or configure the NAS server naming services
- NAS server sharing protocols
- NAS server protection and events
- Managing NAS server configuration
- NAS server settings
- NAS server security
- Create a global namespace
- File systems
- Quotas
- Shares and exports
- File protection
- Create a protection policy
- Create snapshot rules
- Create a snapshot
- Modify a snapshot
- Delete a snapshot
- Assign a protection policy to a file system
- Unassign a protection policy
- Modify a protection policy
- Delete a protection policy
- Modify a snapshot rule
- Delete a snapshot rule
- Refresh a file system using snapshot
- Restore a file system from a snapshot
- Clone NAS server and file system
- Clone the file system
- Create a thin clone using a snapshot
- Reconfiguring MDM roles
- Set rebuild and rebalance settings
- Enabling or disabling SDC authentication
- Enabling replication on existing PowerFlex hyperconverged nodes
- Prerequisites
- Workflow
- Remove a PowerFlex hyperconverged resource group from PowerFlex Manager
- Create and configure replication port groups
- Preparing the SVMs for replication
- Shut down the SVM
- Add network adapters
- Record the MAC address of the newly added network interface controllers
- Modify SVMs
- Install SDR RPMs on the SDS nodes (SVMs)
- Exit SDS maintenance mode
- Journal capacity
- Adding the Storage Data Replicator to a PowerFlex appliance
- Create and copy certificates
- Add peer replication systems
- Create remote consistency groups
- Maximize replication throughput over WAN
- Add replication networks to PowerFlex Manager
- Add the hyperconverged resource group back to PowerFlex Manager
- Enabling replication on existing PowerFlex storage-only nodes
- Prerequisites
- Gather the MDM IP address information
- Install SDR
- Configure replication networks
- Create replication networks for a layer-2 configuration
- Create replication networks for a layer-3(routed) configuration
- Journal capacity
- Create static routes for CentOS
- Create static routes for SLES
- Add firewall rules for SDR
- Add SDRs to PowerFlex Manager
- Remove existing storage-only resource group from PowerFlex Manager
- Add replication networks to PowerFlex Manager
- Add the storage-only resource group back to PowerFlex Manager
- Create and copy certificates
- Add peer replication systems
- Create remote consistency groups
- Maximize replication throughput over WAN
- Secure component verification and TPM enablement on the PowerFlex nodes
- Administering the CloudLink Center
- Add the CloudLink Center license in PowerFlex Manager
- Adding and managing CloudLink Center licenses
- Configure syslog and audit logs in CloudLink
- Manage a self-encrypting drive (SED) from CloudLink Center
- Manage a self-encrypting drive from the command line
- Release a self-encrypting drive
- Release management of a self-encrypting drive from the command line
- Backup and restore
- Powering on and off
- Power on a Technology Extension with PowerScale
- Power on a PowerFlex rack
- Power on the PowerFlex management cluster (ESXi)
- Power on the PowerFlex management cluster (KVM)
- Power on the VMware NSX Edge nodes
- Power on PowerFlex storage-only nodes
- Power on PowerFlex file nodes
- Power on all PowerFlex hyperconverged nodes
- Power on PowerFlex compute-only nodes
- Complete the powering on of PowerFlex rack
- Power off a PowerFlex rack
- Deactivate protection domain and power off PowerFlex storage-only node using PowerFlex Manager
- Power off PowerFlex compute-only nodes with VMware ESXi
- Power off PowerFlex file nodes
- Power off PowerFlex hyperconverged nodes with VMware ESXi
- Power off the VMware NSX Edge nodes
- Power off the PowerFlex management cluster (KVM)
- Power off the PowerFlex management cluster (ESXi)
- Complete the powering off of PowerFlex rack
- Power off a Technology Extension with PowerScale
- Credentials management
- Using PowerFlex Manager to manage credentials
- Modify PowerFlex Manager credentials for resources
- Update credentials on the management virtual machine cluster
- Maintaining PowerFlex Manager credential resources
- Changing a VMware ESXi host root password
- Modify the VMware vCenter Server single sign on default administrator password
- Change the administrator password for VMware vCenter Server Appliance
- Resetting the VMware vCenter Server Appliance root password
- Change the storage data server (SDS) password
- Change the storage data client (SDC) password
- Change CloudLink passwords
- Managing passwords external to PowerFlex Manager
- Manage EmbeddedOS15.3 users credentials for the jump server
- EmbeddedOS Jump server authentication
- Changing the IPI appliance password
- Changing a user account password on the IPI appliance
- Changing the operating system password for storage VM (SVM) of a hyperconverged node
- Changing PowerFlex with Nutanix Cloud Platform passwords
- Minimum VMware vCenter permissions
- System logs and audit logs
- PowerFlex Manager logs
- VMware vCenter logs
- CloudLink logs
- Collecting logs for PowerFlex with Nutanix Cloud Platform
- Network logs
- Configuring syslogs and audit logs
- Configure syslogs using VMware ESXi
- Configure and forward the syslogs using VMware vCenter
- Configure syslog and audit logs in CloudLink
- Configure audit logs in SVMs and PowerFlex storage-only nodes
- Configure iDRAC for audit logging
- Retrieve SDNAS audit logs
- Configuring syslogs for Dell PowerSwitch and Cisco Nexus switches
- PowerFlex audit log
- Migrating to NVMe over TCP on VMware ESXi
- Single component upgrade
- Post deployment tasks
Introduction
This guide provides procedures for administering PowerFlex rack.
It provides the following information:
- Managing components
- Performing maintenance activities in a PowerFlex cluster
- Monitoring
- Network administration
- Storage administration
- Administering the CloudLink CenterCloudLink Center
- Backup and restore
- Powering on and off
- Usernames and password management
- System logs
The target audience for this document includes system administrators responsible for managing PowerFlex rack, and Dell personnel responsible for remote management.
Logical Configuration Survey or LCS is now known as Enterprise Project Services (EPS) form. References in the documentation will be updated over time.
SupportAssist is now known as Dell Technologies connectivity services. References in the documentation will be updated over time.
PowerFlex file and file services are supported only for PowerFlex systems with PowerFlex Manager 4.6.x and earlier.
For additional PowerFlex rack documentation, go to PowerFlex rack technical documentation.