- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Introduction
- Linux
- Overview—deployment steps and options
- Preparation for deployment
- Download installation packages—Linux
- Deploying PowerFlex with SELinux
- Prepare server operating systems for support of large-scale systems (up to 2048 SDCs)
- 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
- Store Tomcat's keystore password in the lockbox
- PowerFlex Gateway installation with a custom Java configuration
- Install Java on SUSE 12 servers
- Certificate management for PowerFlex Gateway
- Using SSH authentication on the PowerFlex Gateway
- Preparation tasks for SLES, 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 Dell PowerFlex v3.6.x
Configure performance profile during deployment
During deployment, system performance is enhanced by default implementation of the high performance profile for the MDM, SDC, SDS, and SDR components. Most servers support the requirements for this configuration and can benefit considerably from its implementation.
The high performance profile is mandatory for Fine Granularity data layout. However, for Medium Granularity data layout, you can choose to use the compact performance profile instead.
High performance profile should be enabled on servers equipped with processors based on Haswell-equivalent or newer architectures and 48 GB of RAM. Other configurations may benefit from this setting as well.
The performance profile is set to High by default, but if you want to change the profile to Compact in the CSV file, use the perfProfileFor<COMPONENT> columns.
For more information on the difference between the compact and the high performance profile, see the Configure and Customize PowerFlex Guide.
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