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 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.

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

This article gives the procedure to clear the iDRAC job queue on Dell servers.

Explore the Dell End of Service Life (EOSL) and End of Life (EOL) list for converged infrastructure, storage, and storage networking products. Access End-of-Life documents for hardware, software, and firmware release and service dates

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

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

The document contains information about how to collect different kinds of logs in PowerFlex. It helps the user to know why these logs are required and what information they hold.

This article contains procedures on how to change the DNS entries. If you have multiple DNS servers that are configured but want to use a specific server, you can change the DNS entries to point only to that preferred server instead of listing all available servers.

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

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.