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This article provides links to PowerFlex software documentation.
Updated:  May 13, 2026 ID: 000307994

This article provides links to documentation for PowerFlex Rack, PowerFlex Appliance, PowerFlex Custom Node, VxFlex Ready Node, PowerFlex Software, PowerFlex for AWS, PowerFlex for Azure and CloudLink.
Updated:  May 13, 2026 ID: 000308007

After following NDU flow and switching to 1_node MDM cluster, upgrading Secondary/TB MDMs and trying to put the back into the cluster, MDM throws an error.
Updated:  May 15, 2026 ID: 000203063

Upgrade will not start/finish the Finalize step, since the MDM is shown in an upgrade state in progress.
Updated:  May 15, 2026 ID: 000203061

When trying to create and map a volume to a Compute Node in OpenStack the operation is taking much more time (comparing to the other nodes) and the client is logging errors against the newly created device.
Updated:  May 15, 2026 ID: 000203060

Network connectivity issues cause Secondary MDM/s status to become Not synchronized.
Updated:  May 15, 2026 ID: 000203059

There is only one SDC that is having issues w/ performance.
Updated:  May 15, 2026 ID: 000203058

SDS reports sockets closed without any network events or evidence of networking issues.
Updated:  May 15, 2026 ID: 000203040

Errors are present whenever rebooting the SDC. IO times out from PowerFlex Gateway.
Updated:  May 15, 2026 ID: 000203037

Issue Description vSphere ESXi hosts hang and become inaccessible randomly after experiencing high latency within the datastores.
Updated:  May 15, 2026 ID: 000203027

Issue Description Each SDS requires what appears to be a full rebuild when exiting maintenance mode.
Updated:  May 15, 2026 ID: 000203026

Collecting logs using the Installation Manager (Gateway) times out and fails on SDCs running on ESXi v7.x.
Updated:  May 15, 2026 ID: 000203020

Applications that are using PowerFlex volumes are reporting corruption when RMcache is enabled.
Updated:  May 15, 2026 ID: 000202877

Unable to add dax device to an SDS node.
Updated:  May 15, 2026 ID: 000202755

In PowerFlex Manager 4.0, performing a Linux Compute Only deployment using a SLES 15 SP3 ISO gets stuck during the OS installation phase.
Updated:  May 15, 2026 ID: 000202410

LVs (Logical Volume) built on scini devices as Physical Volumes (PVs) are not activated after SDC boot.
Updated:  May 15, 2026 ID: 000047739

Multiple SDS nodes may intermittently panic with a NO_RESOURCES assertion in spef_SynchronizeExtentDataWithIoCommitPhaseCk during high internal SPEF resource utilization.
Updated:  May 15, 2026 ID: 000465101

Data Unavailability (DU) noticed after upgrading PowerFlex to version 3.6, an SDS service will fail and restart irregularly. There is no specific order in which this happens.
Updated:  May 15, 2026 ID: 000202260

The customer is using the SDC monitoring pod (also called the sdc-monitor sidecar) and noticed an excessive amount of CPU is being used by it.
Updated:  May 15, 2026 ID: 000202226

PowerFlex Manager Platform (PFMP) crashes after restarting network services using "systemctl restart network."
Updated:  May 15, 2026 ID: 000202162

Slow writes to operating system disk can cause multiple MDM issues.
Updated:  May 14, 2026 ID: 000201707

Generating a PowerFlex license fails when using the UI's 'Installation ID'.
Updated:  May 14, 2026 ID: 000200698

This article explains how to reclaim space on the Management Virtual Machine (MVMs).
Updated:  May 14, 2026 ID: 000348682

Using PowerFlex Manager Deployment or Upgrade will fail in Diskless nodes due to the backplane. When performing deployments on diskless Compute Only (CO) nodes, if the backplane shows as non-compliant PFxM attempts to upgrade and it Fails.
Updated:  May 14, 2026 ID: 000200302

This article explains using the Boot Optimized Storage Solution - S2 (BOSS-S2) configuration utility to import a foreign virtual disk, a feature only when the controller detects a foreign disk.
Updated:  May 14, 2026 ID: 000249178

The guide explains converting a hard drive to non‑RAID by iDRAC, then claiming it for a PowerFlex Virtual Storage Area Network (VSAN) cluster and assigning cache or capacity roles.
Updated:  May 14, 2026 ID: 000248864

The user is checking performance using FIO (also seen with vdbench) and reports high latency during a rebuild.
Updated:  May 14, 2026 ID: 000244398

This article explain how to fix the restore operation failure when password is not encoded as mentioned in the admin guide
Updated:  May 14, 2026 ID: 000464562

The ScaleIO Data Server (SDS) panics at startup, producing stack traces and causing a single‑point‑of‑failure state; a Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) rule set is suspected, on version 3.5.1.1.
Updated:  May 14, 2026 ID: 000244393

PowerFlex upgrade from 3.6.0.6 to 4.5.2 fails, logs show “Failed to fork wrapper” and “Get Installed Components command was not successful” on nodes, caused by low memory and vCPU resources for SVMs.
Updated:  May 14, 2026 ID: 000244324