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 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.

PowerFlex 5.1: Support Matrix

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

This article describes a cause for hostd service on ESXi to be non-responsive, and cause the server to become unresponsive to management operations from vCenter. The particular scenarios where this happens is when NFC operations such as backup or replication jobs are performed on disks with an IO filter attached.

vSphere ESXi hosts hang and become inaccessible randomly after experiencing high latency within the datastores.

Dial home alert is logged when there is a disconnection between SDC multiple SDS.

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

This article explains how to perform the WSFC conversion at a high-level. It also covers converting an Oracle RAC environment from RDMs to shared VMDKs on NVMe/TCP, even though Oracle RAC does not require SCSI3‑PR. Oracle RAC can run on an SDC‑based VMFS datastore, but because PowerFlex does not support Clustered VMDK on SDC‑based VMFS, SCSI3‑PR‑dependent applications cannot use that configuration. Oracle RAC explanations are also high-level.

PowerFlex Manager automates the process of converting nodes from embedded operating system based on CentOS to embedded operating system based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES). Use the procedures in this section to replace an embedded operating system based on CentOS with embedded operating system based on SLES on a PowerFlex storage-only node or storage virtual machines in a hyperconverged environment.

The Dell PowerFlex Appliance and PowerFlex Rack Migration to PowerFlex 4.x guide covers the migration from PowerFlex 3.8.x to PowerFlex 4.5.x and PowerFlex Manager 4.5.x.

This article explains an issue where the keycloak-0 pod reports a health check failure due to database connectivity problems caused by an incorrect DNS configuration. This issue impacts authentication services managed by keycloak

Use this procedure to configure PowerFlex nodes for alerting after the discovery phase. It can be done directly through the iDRAC UI or using racadm CLI commands. Cannot use PFxM to modify post-deployment.

After a successful installation of PowerFlex Manager Platform (PFMP), the PFxM UI is not reachable. The installer script gives a message that the UI can be accessed at FQDN which must be resolved to <pending>.

VxRack Node: storcli commands not effective

Guide explains verifying PowerFlex compatibility with OpenStack and Red Hat OpenStack by reviewing PowerFlex release notes, the Elab support matrix, Cinder driver guide, and Red Hat certifications.

This article lists the mvm command line to know the PFMP IP address and FQDN

Adding an SDS device fails with "A device with the given name already exists in the SDS"

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

CPU concepts and basic troubleshooting might be unknown or confusing to some. This article provides CPU-related information and troubleshooting methodology.

This article describes the PowerFlex product limits, and the system requirements for components for each consumption model. The product limits summarize the supported capabilities and system limits. Maximum and minimum values for key system components are dictated by the product limits.

PowerFlex Manager supports adding nodes to existing services or deploying them into new services. This article will provide guidance to ensure the network settings are correct to allow for successful deployment. For new services, the network settings can be adjusted in the template to match the NIC configuration on the new nodes. When adding nodes to an existing service, it is recommended to have the same NIC layout and settings across all nodes, but if that is not the case, this article will provide guidance on how to successfully deploy the nodes as desired.

How to use a Private Repository for PowerFlex Storage Data Client (SDC) container running on Red Hat Core operating system (RHCOS) nodes that OpenShift manages.

This section covers the procedures to upgrade the Dell PowerSwitch switches

Use this procedure to manage a SED device through CloudLink Center and Command Line

This article provides quick links to VxFlex Ready Node technical documentation.

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

PowerFlex Gateway (GW) uses Apache Tomcat for REST Gateway, PowerFlex Installer, and SNMP Trap Sender.

This article provides the steps to manually create a CSR using OpenSSL and add the signed certificate to PowerFlex Manager. These steps can be used when a customer has fields they require or cannot use that the PowerFlex Manager UI requires or does not have.

SDS gets decoupled - the system might experience DU occasionally if more than one SDS decouples concurrently or in case the SDS decouples during a rebuild.