- 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
