VxFlex Ready Node

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This article provided links to PowerFlex software documentation.

This article explains how to troubleshoot the alert PFX00102.0000206) The disk space diagnostic failed.

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

Only Panduit G5/G6/G7 Power Distribution Unit (PDU) has Logs Available. Every Generation Before This Does Not Have This Feature.

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

This article explains how to remove orphaned sdnas-gw NATS consumer

Many users have CA policies that prohibit IP addresses in the certificate SAN (Subject Alternative Name) and only FQDNs (Fully Qualified Domain Names) 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 doesn't 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 steps to do OS Conversion while node in BIOS mode

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.

Lifecycle mode allows lifecycle management of node components in an unsupported configuration. In lifecycle mode, a service supports health and compliance monitoring, service mode, and nondisruptive upgrade operations. All other service operations are blocked.

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

iDRAC logs show MEM7114 critical memory events that can be false‑positive DIMM errors. The root cause is a BIOS firmware defect that misreports memory faults, particularly when C‑States are enabled.

During normal use multiple devices in the VxFlex system go into error state, and data unavailability(DU) happens.

PowerFlex Software 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.

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.

Incorrect system time on a server may lead to critical issues such as certificate validation failures, authentication errors, and upgrade failures.

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

PowerFlex Manager only allows one certificate to be uploaded under the Trusted CA Certificate option. If you have a chain of certificates, use the SSL Trusted Certificate option to upload the remaining certificates.

This article is designed to revert a custom-signed Ingress Appliance Certificate to the default Platform CA-signed Certificate.

PowerFlex SDSs with Samsung PM1733a NVMe SSDs running firmware 1.0.X or 1.1.X may experience intermittent drive dropouts. Elevated latency and slow I/O on affected drives can trigger cascading timeout failures, including Data Unavailability (DU) events, upgrade failures, and daily operation issues.

Switch MDM cluster ownership from the current Master MDM to a different MDM.

Switch MDM cluster ownership from the current primary MDM to a different MDM.

Replace a member of an MDM cluster to replace a faulty server or change the server IP address.

Due to unarmed (persistent write-disabled) NVDIMMs that prevented a save operation when the nodes were shut down, triggered by low-voltage on Battery Backup Unit (BBU) at boot time, PowerFlex SDS processes configured with fine granularity storage pools utilizing /dev/dax* devices, may be at risk of losing the contents of the /dev/dax* devices during the next power cycle. This will cause associated storage devices to enter an unrecoverable error state, which may result in a DU/DL situation, depending on the number of affected SDS hosts (nodes) and fault set configuration.

Container Storage Modules (CSM) Container Storage Interface (CSI) Driver for PowerFlex: Mount fails with "Mount point already in use by device."

Container Storage Modules (CSM) Container Storage Interface (CSI) Driver for PowerFlex pods are stuck in CrashLoopBackOff state with error "could not find given NAS server by name."

PowerFlex reports that one of the dax devices is about to fail and should be replaced. NVDIMM correctable memory errors can cause a dax device to show as "Failed Now" in PowerFlex when the device is not truly failed.