
Dell PowerFlex 4.5.x and PowerFlex Manager 4.6.x Administration Guide
- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Introduction
- Revision history
- Initial configuration and setup
- Performing common tasks
- Expanding PowerFlex storage
- Displaying system information at a glance
- Managing block storage after PowerFlex deployment
- Protection domains
- Fault sets
- Storage data servers
- Storage pools
- Acceleration pools
- Devices
- Volumes
- NVMe targets
- Hosts
- Managing file storage
- High availability
- Multitenancy
- Overview of configuring NAS servers
- About file system storage
- 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
- Protecting a block storage environment
- Snapshots
- Create snapshots
- Overwrite volume content from a snapshot
- Set bandwidth and IOPS limits for snapshots
- Lock and unlock snapshots
- Delete snapshots
- Map snapshots
- Unmap snapshots
- Increase the size of a snapshot
- Migrate a snapshot vTree
- Pause snapshot vTree migration
- Roll back snapshot vTree migration
- Set snapshot vTree migration priority
- Snapshot policies
- Remote protection
- Extract and upload certificates
- Journal capacity
- Add a peer system
- Restart the replication cluster
- SDRs
- Replication consistency group
- Replication direction and mapping
- Create a replication consistency group
- Map RCG target volumes to hosts
- Unmap a host from RCG target volumes
- Set the target to inconsistent mode
- Set the target to consistent mode
- Modify the recovery point objective
- Add a replication pair to an RCG
- Pause replication for an RCG
- Resume replication for an RCG
- Create a snapshot of an RCG volume
- Add an RCG snapshot policy
- Perform a failover
- Reverse replication
- Restore replication
- Test Failover
- Stop a failover test
- Freeze an RCG
- Unfreeze an RCG
- Activate an RCG
- Terminate replication in an RCG
- Delete an RCG
- Pause creation of an initial copy
- Resume creation of initial copy
- Set copying priority
- Unpair from RCG
- Snapshots
- Performing lifecycle operations for a resource group
- Deploying a resource configuration in a resource group
- Basic tasks
- Deploying a resource group
- Adding an existing resource group
- Updating a resource group with new firmware and software
- Viewing a compliance report
- Entering and exiting service mode
- Replacing a drive
- Replacing NVDIMM node or battery
- Reconfiguring MDM roles
- Migrating vCLS VMs to shared storage
- Adding components to a resource group
- Resize a volume
- Removing resources from a resource group
- Adding NVMe/TCP storage access
- Replacing the operating system for a node
- Additional resource group management tasks
- Basic tasks
- Preparing a template for a resource group deployment
- Basic tasks
- Additional template management tasks
- Deploying a resource configuration in a resource group
- Managing resources
- Basic tasks
- Discover a resource
- Viewing resource details
- Update resource inventory
- Viewing a compliance report for a resource
- Updating firmware and software
- Removing resources
- Additional resource management tasks
- Basic tasks
- Monitoring events and alerts
- Configuring system settings
- User management
- User roles
- Local users
- Remote users and groups
- Directory services
- Single sign-on identity provider configuration
- Repositories
- Getting started
- Networking
- Events and alerts
- License management
- Security
- Serviceability
- Software upgrade
- User management
- PowerFlex Manager user interface reference
- Maintenance for a PowerFlex controller node
- Retrieving logs for the PowerFlex nodes
- Retrieving logs for PowerFlex components
- Retrieving additional PowerFlex logs
- Enabling audit logging
- Managing storage devices using CloudLink
- Understanding NVMe over TCP load balancing
- Managing NAS server configuration
- Migrating to NVMe over TCP on VMware ESXi
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Introduction
This document provides procedures for using Dell PowerFlex Manager to administer your Dell PowerFlex system. This document includes content from the online help for PowerFlex Manager, as well as information about other administrative procedures you might perform outside of PowerFlex Manager.
It provides the following information:
- Initial configuration and setup
- Performing common tasks
- Expanding PowerFlex storage
- Displaying system information at a glance
- Managing block storage
- Managing file storage
- Protecting your storage environment
- Performing lifecycle operations for a resource group
- Managing resources
- Monitoring events and alerts
- Configuring system settings
- PowerFlex Manager user interface reference
- Additional administration activities
The target audience for this document includes system administrators responsible for managing PowerFlex systems.
For additional PowerFlex software documentation, go to PowerFlex software technical documentation.
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