PowerPath Management Appliance

The purpose of this KB is to list basic items to check when troubleshooting PowerPath Management Appliance (PPMA) prior to opening a Service Request (SR) with support.

A slow blinking amber light showing internally from the switch model DS6620B-V2, not from the switch panel, is confirmed by Brocade to be the LED from the eUSB card (on the motherboard).

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After an upgrade of PowerPath Windows to version 7.2 p01, the Windows 2016 hosts show as disconnected in the PowerPath Management Appliance (PPMA) 3.4 SP2.

When you downgrade PowerPath from 6.x to 5.x, you need to put aside the PowerPath 5.x saved configuration files in advance.

This article provides the fix when the Windows host cannot see LUNs on Unity Array after installation of PowerPath 6.1.

Event 4 appears in Viewer, reporting Corporation () PowerPath MPAPI error after upgrade to 5.7 SP2. MPAPI (Powermt, host-agent, Powermig) causes error. No impact on PowerPath cluster.

When PowerPath for Windows version 6.1 is installed on Windows Server 2016, validation alerts indicate many drivers have dates earlier than the OS, because the PowerPath release predates the OS.

This article notes how PowerPath on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 or 3 can cause SAN access conflicts and block storage software. The cause is the PowerPath driver and services.

The component within PPMA require a security update to address various vulnerabilities.

PowerPath Management Appliance contains remediation for OpenSSL vulnerability that may be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system. PowerPath Linux remediation is available for OpenSSL Vulnerability with an updated Security Configuration Guide (SCG) informing the customers to update OpenSSL package on the host system. For PowerPath Windows, OpenSSL_Configuration Utility contains remediation for OpenSSL vulnerability that may be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system. OpenSSL is used for communication between PowerPath Windows host and Management server. OpenSSL is not bundled in PowerPath Windows package. However, separate compiled OpenSSL libraries are provided to customers through Dell download site along with an installation script so that customers can install them separately. As a remediation, PowerPath engineering is updating the download site with the latest OpenSSL libraries.

This article explains how to assign an Initial Company Administrator.

The purpose of this KB article is to provide common information about ESXi issues and the steps to troubleshoot them.

PPME migration seems to have hung Disk Management and PowerPath 6.2 on the B node of an Active/Active cluster. Node A is the one that has 10 handles setup (no sync yet) but node B is showing high I/O across all disks for some reason.

When the host is rebooted, NMP manages some or all VPLEX LUNs (instead of PowerPath/VE).

What is the maximum number of LUNs (Logical Unit Number) that can be presented? What is the maximum number of Paths per LUN? What is the Maximum Partition size on Microsoft Windows?

PowerPath Management Appliance: How to reset/change PPMA user interface password

This article explains how to promote Company Administrators.

Server hung while PPME migration was in progress at which TargetLUfault errors are received in powermig info.

PPMA shows ESXi hosts as Unlicensed and rpowermt commands fail with an error "User Authentication Invalid"

Microsoft Failover cluster resources go offline during a volume expansion in PowerPath for Windows 6.1.

Upgrade to PPMA 2.1 SP1 or above from lower version fails

Kernel panics may occur on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.x systems running PowerPath for Linux version 6.3 in conjunction with Symantec software (VRTSvxvm any version) may result in data unavailability.

PowerPath Management Appliance audit log increases leading to root filesystem going to over 90% full.

Performance issue while accessing PPMA GUI 2.5.

Failed to upgrade the PowerPath Management Appliance.Upgrade fails with "Zypper issue while updating existing packages. Unknown error. Aborting update procedure ... COMPLETE: Appliance update completed with warnings.

This article explains Dell guidelines on company administrator assignment.

Reserve the following port numbers for Dell EMC PowerPath Management Appliance:

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