VxFlex Ready Node

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.

This guide catalogs PowerFlex Block alerts for subsystem PFX000XX.XXXXXXX, detailing each alert code, description, severity level and potential system impact without providing remediation steps.

This article shows how to use PuTTY to enable session logging and perform the appropriate show tech‑support commands on Cisco Nexus or PowerSwitch switches, capturing logs and CPU data for analysis.

System Configuration Reporter (SCR) for PowerFlex provides reports, health readiness assessments for 3.x‑to‑4.x upgrades, and logs for troubleshooting, downloadable from the PowerFlex portal.

PowerFlex devices on ESXi are logging following error: "IEC page to device "eui.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" has bad pagecode: 0x0"

The UI shows a UNABLE_TO_RECEIVE_MDM_EVENTS alert because the manager cannot reach the ActiveMQ broker on port 61714; the broker is blocked or the service is down, so MDM events are not displayed.

Use this procedure to verify and upgrade the CPLD firmware version on PowerFlex nodes. PowerFlex Manager does not verify or upgrade CPLD.

Use the procedures in this section to upgrade the Cisco Nexus switches from NX-OS 9.3.x to NX-OS 10.x.

This article details three ways to change the ESXi host root password; by vSphere Client, ESXi shell, or System Customization. The article also details how to update the vCenter admin passwords.

How to find the disk space usage and free space on the ScaleIO volume.

A SO resource group deployment fails with an exception - 'RuntimeError: VxFlex component, scaleio-block-legacy-gateway, does not have a successful server to build with'.

This knowledge base article offers a detailed guide for troubleshooting Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0, Secure Boot, and ESXi-related issues on Dell servers. It provides step-by-step instructions to address common problems, ensuring the proper functioning and security of your server.

Dell PM1735a NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) drive failing in PowerEdge servers

This article explains how to change the IP Addresses in the working ScaleIO Cluster for SDSs and MDMs in ESXi Environment.

This article will explain the differences between a rebuild and a rebalance.

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

On AIX, a volume group built on PowerFlex (scinid) disks does not vary on at boot and its filesystems do not mount. The root cause is a boot-order race: the PowerFlex Storage Data Client (SDC) enumerates the scinid block devices only after the network is up and the SDC connects to the MDM (about two minutes into boot), which is later than AIX's automatic vary-on and mount pass. The fix is to disable auto vary-on and auto-mount for the affected volume group, then bring it up from a small, bounded post-network script sequenced after the SDC daemon. This article assumes the scini parent device already comes up at boot; if it does not, resolve that first (see the companion article on the cfgscini log path).

After every reboot of an AIX LPAR running the PowerFlex Storage Data Client (SDC), the scini device is not configured automatically and the PowerFlex disks are missing until cfgmgr is run by hand. The root cause is the predefined-device (PdDv) cfgscini log directory pointing to /opt, which is not yet mounted at rc.boot phase 2, so the cfgscini device method fails with return code 11. Relocating the log directory to /var (a filesystem mounted at phase 2) restores automatic configuration of the scini device at boot. This is a boot-time configuration issue only; it is not caused by ODM corruption or an invalid client GUID.

This article explains how to troubleshoot the issue of being unable to exit service mode during a gateway upgrade.

This article explains how to troubleshoot error code MEM9037

This article explains how to troubleshoot events PFX00001.0704001 PFX00001.0704002 PFX00001.0704003 PFX00001.0704004

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

This Article is an alert reference guide for the PowerFlex Block subsystem SIO04.XX.XXXXXXX,  SIO12.XX.XXXXXXX,  SIO13.XX.XXXXXXX,  SIO14.XX.XXXXXXX,  SIO15.XX.XXXXXXX,  SIO16.XX.XXXXXXX

All alerts in this article apply to the file subsystem. These alerts do not have SCG symptom IDs, except where noted.

Dell VxFlex Ready Node and PowerFlex Custom Node remediation is available for multiple security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system.

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

Even after performing clean command, the SDS device error does not clear. Here are steps on how this can be fixed.

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

Resource Group (RG) operations will complete and cause DU when an MDM cluster has fewer virtual IPs than MDM DATA IPs.