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This document highlights minimum, recommended, and latest code versions for Dell Technologies Enterprise and Data Center Infrastructure products. Dell carefully evaluates and monitors code deployment data to ensure that product releases meet our stringent expectations to provide our customers with reliable products and solutions.

This article provided links to PowerFlex software documentation.

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Many users have CA policies that prohibit IP addresses in the Certificate Subject Alternative Name (SAN) and only Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDNs) are allowed. The lack of IP addresses in the certificate conflicts with PowerFlex Manager logic when it comes to the zipper or yum repositories that we use. PowerFlex 4.8 has a new feature to support stringent rules for certificates. This is a new security mode within package manager. Now, when creating a custom certificate or the Powerflex appliance certificate, the customer can choose between Standard and Stringent modes. The Standard Mode does not require DNS, but includes IPs and FQDNs, and the Stringent mode in which PowerFlex Manager converts the ingress IPS to FQDNs and then builds the repo URLs.

This article explains how to troubleshoot the dial home alert SDC_MULTIPLE_DISCONNECTIONS_FROM_SDS -SIO01.07.0000007

This article explains how to troubleshoot the alert PFX00102.0000207 - The PowerFlex management platform message bus health diagnostic failed.

The article outlines VMware Security Advisory (VMSA) 2025‑0013, which lists four critical ESXi 7.0 8.0 flaws and gives update guidance, needed RCM IC versions and upgrade routes.

Storage Only nodes deployment may fail during LIA installation because ISM package generates an incorrect firewall rule which can be fixed by editing the Malformed firewall rule

Upgrade from version 4.8.0.1 to 5.1.0.2 due to database unclean shutdown which can be fixed using the script attached to this article

After upgrading Powerflex from 5.1.0.1 to a 5.1.0.2 CloudIQ continues to display the pre-upgrade PowerFlex Manager details because supportassist get discoonected which can be fixed by restarting the CloudIQ colelctor pod

17G Nodes may not power on during NDU due to a bug linked to a specific firmware version which can be solved by cold reboot

This article explains step by step how to do an NVMe device replacement and do the RDM config in the SVM to be correctly mapped to the ESXi host

This article explains how to fix RG displayed incorrect switch mapping during the upgrade.

This article point to the step by step the procedure to power off a PowerFlex appliance from the admin guide

The guide outlines PowerFlex Upgrade Team service eligibility, supported PowerFlex 4.5 or later versions, pre‑upgrade checks, file and jump‑box preparation, and licensing considerations for the upgrade.

Use this procedure to configure SNMP on a Cisco Nexus or a Dell PowerSwitch switch.

For the SNMP alerts to be forwarded to a site like BigPanda, the load balancer IP address of the management virtual machine is configured on each of the resources individually.

This section is to assist you in responding to unexpected power loss. This Article is a general guideline and has not been tested in every scenario. If at any point there is a failure, contact Dell Technologies Support.

This article provides quick links to Dell PowerFlex for AWS and Dell PowerFlex for Microsoft Azure technical documentation.

During vTree migration, SDS nodes running PowerFlex 3.6.7 may panic, resulting in a data unavailability (DU) event. In earlier PowerFlex versions, the migration process may become stuck indefinitely and fail to complete.

This article explains steps to do OS Conversion while node is in BIOS mode.

This article shows the PowerFlex release matrix, and guidance on how to correlate the various packages.

This article explains how to reboot different node types for PowerFlex system

Use this article to manage events and alerts.

Use this procedure to enable SupportAssist using the connect directly mode or using SCG.

There are two options to configure events and alerts: ● Connect directly ● Connect using secure connect gateway ● If you connect directly, only the call home option is available ● If you connect through secure connect gateway, all options through secure connect gateway are enabled

Use PowerFlex Manager to manage software and firmware IC compliance.

PowerFlex Manager enables you to register a notification receiver for pushing alert and event messages through webhooks to a target system,for example, BigPanda.

Use this procedure to configure and maintain audit logs of a user in a separate file commands.log in SVMs and PowerFlex storage-only nodes and transmit them to the remote servers.

This article covers the procedures to configure system logs/syslogs and audit logs.