PowerFlex appliance R660

This article details the procedure to troubleshoot power supply unit (PSU) issues that may arise on a PowerEdge Server.

Learn how to create and export a SupportAssist Collection using iDRAC9 and iDRAC10 on Dell devices. Resolve technical issues with this step-by-step guide.

PowerEdge R660 and R760 platforms running CPLD versions v1.2.6 report voltage out of range, which prevents the node from powering on.

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

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.

PowerEdge connected Dell NVMe SSDs with the Limited Retry (LR) bit set may experience an increase in failures due to elevated media and data‑integrity error rates.

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.

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.

This article provides an explanation of the backplane hard drive LED indicators.

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

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.

This article describes about how to expand a service when all networks are not mapped to the service.

SDNAS CO deployed the SDNAS Node successfully, but the PowerFlex file cluster registration failed.

NDU can fail with conflicting RPMs inside the CentOS extras repo.

After upgrading the PowerFlex Management Platform from 4.0.0-161 to hotfix 4.0.0.1-169, the Resource Group Compliance Report shows no software components in the PowerFlex Manager UI.

PowerFlex Manager Platform (PFMP) crashes after restarting network services using "systemctl restart network."