- 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
Preparation for adding components to a system
Prepare items required for adding components to an existing Linux-based PowerFlex system.
Prerequisites
- Ensure that the new nodes meet the requirements listed in "Deployment checklist-Linux"
- Prepare new nodes that are based on SLES, Oracle Linux and Ubuntu as described in the "Preparation for deployment" section
- For new Fine Granularity Storage Pool hosts, prepare their NVDIMMs as DAX devices, as described in the "Preparation for deployment" section
- Ensure that you have the CSV file that was used to deploy the existing PowerFlex system.
- The secure communication mode of components must match the mode of the system to which the components are being added. If they do not match, you must either change the mode of the components to be added, or change the mode of the system so that they match.
About this task
Add and configure new components to existing or new servers using this method, but do not edit or remove existing components or configurations, such as storage devices, acceleration devices, Protection Domains, or MDM roles.
These procedures can also be used to add and configure new Storage Pools. However, do not modify or remove existing Storage Pools.
Steps
- Make a copy of the CSV configuration file.
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Add the details of the new components and Storage Pools to the CSV file.
For information about the fields in the CSV file, see "Prepare the CSV file."
- Save the CSV file for future use.
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