PowerFlex appliance Intelligent Catalog Software

Provides links to the PowerFlex software, PowerFlex rack, PowerFlex appliance, PowerFlex custom node, and VxFlex Ready Node technical documentation.

PowerFlex Appliance and VxFlex Appliance product documentation is in the "Technical Resource Center." While the search engine on the web page locates some product documentation, the preferred method is to use the redirect link to the "Technical Resource Center."

Explore the Dell End of Service Life (EOSL) and End of Life (EOL) list for converged infrastructure, storage, and storage networking products. Access End-of-Life documents for hardware, software, and firmware release and service dates

Upgrading to PowerFlex Management Platform (PFMP) 4.8 may cause the UI to load with the error "Failed to initialize" or be accessible but unstable.

PowerFlex CLI (SCLI or Command-Line Interface) is installed as part of the (Meta Data Manager (MDM) component. The PowerFlex CLI is used for users who want to use commands in scripts for automating routine tasks. Logging into SCLI uses a Mutual Transport Layer Security (mTLS) certificate-based login. By default, the certificate used to authenticate is the /opt/emc/scaleio/mdm/cfg/mgmt_ca.pem file. Unlike PowerFlex 3.x, the username and password is the same as the PowerFlex Management Platform (PFMP) WEB UI.

This article covers how to remove a VLAN or change a network within PowerFlex Manager.

PowerFlex software upgrade (gateway) is failing due to missing Java 17 package for CentOS 7 storage nodes in compliance bundle (IC or RCM).

ESXi /var/log/syslog.log is full of 'dcbd' related messages. These messages flood any configured remote syslog servers. DCBD is the Data Center Bridging daemon that runs on ESXi.

This guide explains the deployment types available, depending on your deployment requirements, proceed to one of the following parts:

This article explains how to use the internal HTTP share for 4.x PowerFlex Manager Release Certification Matrix (RCM), Intelligent Catalog (IC), ISO uploads.

This article explains how to reclaim space on the Management Virtual Machine (MVMs).

Dell PowerFlex Appliance remediation is available for multiple security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system.

This article explains how to clear device errors from the PowerFlex Manager Platform (PFMP) when a Dial Home (DH) SIO03.02.0000005 is triggered.

Client/servers are experiencing IO errors against PowerFlex-backed devices. The overall backend (MDM/SDSes) appears to be healthy. PowerFlex replication is being used and there are some RPO errors against 1 or more of the RCGs.

PowerFlex Open Manage Enterprise (OpenManage Enterprise) allows a PowerFlex solution to gather telemetry from nodes. This article lists: Supported Versions, Documentation, Functionality and Feature Resources, and AIOps supported versions and documentation.

PowerFlex 4.x Trying to generate the troubleshooting bundle gives an error "The test connection to upload the troubleshooting bundle failed"

The compliance information in PFxM got corrupted and was showing components with old or stale data reflected as N/A in the compliance report.

Procedure to update firmware to mitigate an issue of NVDIMM batteries losing charge on PowerFlex Rack and Appliance (R650, R750) nodes.

After upgrading Cloudlink to 8.2 you see Machine certificate is invalid and Multisession CA Certificate Invalid alarms raised. Machines are in disconnected state.

Editing a service and selecting a new OS image does not change the OS image reflected in the Service settings or Compliance and OS Repositories.

MDM login does not work with LDAP authentication on Ubuntu 16.04 and higher, with PowerFlex 3.5 and higher.

By default, 14G SO nodes are configured to go to sleep to save power when idle. In the sleep state, when PowerFlex Manager issues IOs the response time is impacted while it wakes up. It is possible to set a parameter that does not allow the CPU to go to sleep but that setting will revert back to the default after a service upgrade.

This article explains when it is safe to ignore PowerFlex UI non-compliance when hardware component updates are necessary. The compliance flag in PFxM is a best-practice target matrix. If support and engineering guide the customer community to update hardware to fix issues in the field, such as stated in a KB article, Dell Technical Advisory (DTA), or Dell Security Advisory (DSA), deviation is allowed, supported, and acceptable.

PFxM-3.5.1-5539 with 13G HC and SO services backed up and restored to 3.7.0-7773 loses the cached network connectivity data for 13G nodes. After the restore, the 13G SO service goes into a critical and error state.

PowerFlex Manager installs operating systems during new service deployment or node expansion with Partial Network Automation using iDRAC virtual media. Sometimes when LACP networking is used with Dell OS 10 switches OS installation failures can be seen depending on the switch cabling used.

Node credentials can be changed from the Resources page of PowerFlex Manager. As many nodes as wanted may be selected and updated, but if too many are selected it could cause timeout issues.

In PowerFlex Manager, a disruptive service upgrade fails if the SVM name in vCenter does not match its hostname.

Switch discovery fails if "enable" password is required to activate configure commands.

This article gives the procedure to locate a conflicting/duplicate IP and resolve it by removing the conflicting/duplicate IP.

During deployment, an existing SO service failed with the message "Could not connect to the SDS xxx over SSH due to a timeout. (VXFM00665)" All connectivity between PFxM appliance, gateway, and gateway to SDS data IPs is working and manual SSH was working.