Dell PowerFlex Rack with PowerFlex 3.x Administration Guide

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Date	Document revision	Description of changes
February 2024	11.8	Updated: Power off PowerFlex compute-only nodes with VMware ESXi Power off the PowerFlex management controller 2.0 Managing Users
November 2023	11.7	Added support for Cisco Nexus 93180YC-FX3 Updated support for Cisco Smart Account licensing
September 2023	11.6	Updated for decommissioning of Flexera Download Center
August 2023	11.5	Added support for: Multi-subnet and multi-VLAN configurations Fault sets
February 2023	11.4	Added support for: PowerFlex R7525 nodes Updated content for: PowerFlex user-defined accounts SVM parameters to upgrade to PowerFlex 3.5.x Cisco Smart Account licensing communication Configure the PowerFlex rack service port for a Dell EMC PowerSwitch management switch
September 2022	11.3	Updated content for: Modes to deploy PowerFlex Manager Service node scenarios Link to supported RCM version page Added content for: Configure vCenter high availability Cisco Smart Account licensing information Removed support for: Trusted Platform Module
May 2022	11.2	Added support for VMware vSphere Client 7.0 U3c. Updated content for: Set rebuild and rebalance settings using versions prior to PowerFlex 3.5 Deploy the PowerFlex Gateway
March 2022	11.1	Added content for backing up and restoring SSL and trusted certificates.
November 2021	11.0	Added support for: PowerFlex management controller 2.0, an R650-based controller that uses PowerFlex storage and a VMware ESXi hypervisor PowerFlex R650 hyperconverged, storage-only, and compute-only nodes PowerFlex R750 hyperconverged, storage-only, and compute-only nodes PowerFlex R6525 hyperconverged, storage-only, and compute-only nodes PowerFlex Manager 3.8 CloudLink 7.1
July 2021	10.0	Added support for: PowerFlex 3.6 VMware vSphere 7 update 1 Cisco Nexus switches: N93180YC-FX access/management aggregation/leaf switch N9364C-GX spine/leaf switch N92348GC-X management switch Multi-tenancy with L3 routing between SDS to SDC communication Embedded operating system jump server support for existing systems 25Gb rack network daughter card (rNDC) CloudIQ
March 2021	9.1	Updated content for discovering an existing cluster
December 2020	9.0	Added support for: Embedded operating system-based jump server VMware ESXi 7.0 Added content on configuring network settings in PowerFlex Manager templates
September 2020	8.1	Editorial updates
August 2020	8.0	Added content for: Protected maintenance mode Native asynchronous replication LACP bonding NIC port design Updated content for: CloudLink 6.9 PowerFlex 3.5 Removed content for Red Hat Virtualization
April 2020	7.0	Added content on PowerFlex Manager Users to the Configuring PowerFlex Manager section. Added support for 100 GB leaf-spine networks. Updated content for CloudLink.
January 2020	6.0	Added content for VxFlex Manager alerting, including removal of OpenManage Enterprise dependency Updated the PowerFlex ManagerInstallation prerequisites topic with the resource requirements to install PowerFlex Manager. Added content for PowerFlex compute-only nodes based on Windows Server 2016. Added content for NVMe on PowerFlex storage-only nodes and PowerFlex hyperconverged nodes Added content for NVDIMMs on PowerFlex hyperconverged nodes and PowerFlex storage-only nodes Added content for Dell EMC Networking switches. Added content for spine scale support for more than 500 nodes Added content for storage-only PowerFlex rack Updated the PowerFlex rack password management section to include a topic on Updating passwords in PowerFlex Manager. Updated the Changing the default admin MDM password topic to include the command to change the MDM password on the PowerFlex gateway Added support for CloudLink
July 2019	5.0	Added content for: PowerFlex rack VLAN EVPN leaf-spine configuration NVDIMM Managing components with PowerFlex Manager Monitoring system health Configuring SNMP trap and syslog forwarding Installing PowerFlex Manager Configuring the OS installation (PXE) network Configuring PowerFlex Manager Enabling remote access to the PowerFlex Manager VM Added section on PowerFlex rack password management (previously located in the VxFlex Integrated Rack Security Configuration Guide) Updated Backing up and restoring using PowerFlex Manager content Updated Monitoring and alerting using Secure Remote Services content Updated Adding a PowerFlex storage-only node with a NVMe disk to PowerFlex content
January 2019	4.0	Added support for the two-layer deployment Added support for Red Hat Virtualization Added support for NVMe drives Added information for Power On and Power Off
August 2018	3.0	Added PowerFlex Manager Major revisions for 14th generation of Dell EMC PowerEdge servers Revisions for PowerFlex
April 2018	2.0	Major revisions and additions in compute, network, storage, and management administrative tasks for 13th generation of Dell EMC PowerEdge servers deployments
June 2017	1.3	Minor updates for GA release
April 2017	1.2	Added Configuring system monitoring for the VxRack server
October 2016	1.1	Updated management software information Updated to support ScaleIO 2.0 Updated product name Added Configuring the baseboard management controller to send SNMP alerts
July 2016	1.0	Initial release