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Dell PowerFlex Rack with PowerFlex 3.x Administration Guide

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Power on PowerFlex storage-only nodes

Use this procedure to power on PowerFlex storage-only nodes.

Steps

  1. From iDRAC, power on all PowerFlex storage-only nodes and allow them time to boot completely.
  2. Log in to the PowerFlex GUI presentation server using the primary MDM:
    1. Click Backend > Storage > SDS and verify that all the storage data servers listed are in connected state.
    2. Click Device and verify that none of the drives are in error state.
    3. Exit the presentation server.
  3. Log in to all host iDRACs as root and confirm the NTP, syslog, and SNMP settings.
  4. Use SSH to connect to all network switches.
  5. To verify that connected interfaces are not in a not connected state, type:

    show interface status

  6. Do the following:
    1. Log in to the jump server on the controller stack.
    2. At the command prompt or the terminal, type nslookup, against the correct DNS and verify that the DNS is correct.
      For example, nslookup eagles-r640-f-158.lab.vce.com (node hostname) 10.234.134.100 (dns server ip address).

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