PowerFlex Software

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This article describes the steps to troubleshoot a ScaleIO Cinder installation for OpenStack.

An alert is raised when a Disk Group (DG) enters a dual degraded capacity fault tolerance state, indicating that the system is at risk of data unavailability if another failure occurs.

An alert is raised when the Rebalance or Rebuild operation has been manually disabled for Device Groups (DG) in a Protection Domain (PD). This is typically done for maintenance or diagnostic purposes and should be re-enabled once the task is complete.

An alert is raised when an error is reported on a device.

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

An LDAP-enabled user gets a "no role assigned to user" error when making API calls.

After a successful PowerFlex Management Platform (PFMP) upgrade, the PowerFlex Gateway (GW) fails to proceed with the upgrade.

During PowerFlex management Platform (PFMP) deployment, one or more MVM's fail to deploy using the wizard with the following error "HttpNfcLeaseState.error."

Sometimes support or customers must locate the Storage Devices from vSphere in PowerFlex. The Presentation Server shows the last eight digits when filtering the volumes by "VTree ID;" however, these digits might be the same for several volumes. The recommendation is to compare the last 16 digits of the eui in vSphere Client with the Volume ID shown in the CLI of the Primary MDM.

PowerFlex 4.x: Unable to deploy PowerFlex Storage Cluster. Error "Failed Bootstrap operation failed"

PowerFlex Manager is failing to complete a SO Deployment RG when performing the 'zypper update' task.

This article explains the detailed steps for how to rename the gateway after deployment

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

PowerFlex Manager: RKE2 upgrade fails repeatedly due to "405 Not Allowed" error while creating the upgrade payload During the PowerFlex Management Platform (PFMP) upgrade, the process fails repeatedly, looping at the point of creating the upgrade payload folder in the http-share. The failure occurs with an HTTP 405 Not Allowed error.

iDRAC password cannot be changed through the PowerFlex Management Platform (PFMP) web UI when using custom SSL certificates.

Attempts to log in to PowerFlex UI or CLI using LDAP authentication are unsuccessful. Logins using native 'admin' accounts are still successful.

After performing a PowerFlex Management Platform (PFMP) restore operation, the PFMP UI About page displays an incorrect version.

This article provides information about interpreting the values for "Unresolved Read errors" and "Unresolved Compare errors" in the output of the PowerFlex scli --query_sds or --query_sds_device_info commands, with a focus on understanding the error counts and their significance.

During the Cisco Nexus switch firmware upgrade, the process fails due to a timeout error while transferring the NX-OS image file over SSH.

This article explains how to configure "Certificate Chain of Trust" required for scli when using custom signed PowerFlex Manager Platform (PFMP) SSL certificates.

In some situations where a vCenter is upgraded to a higher version, outside of the RCM or IC being deployed, in the middle of an ongoing Compute Only Resource Group deployment, the deployment job may fail due to an inability to add vmnics onto the Front-End Distributed Virtual Switch (DVS). PowerFlex Manager (PFxM) can add the vmnics to the Back-End production DVS without any issues in this situation.

This article explains how to renew the cluster node certificate when CloudLink is showing the alarm "Cluster node certificate is expired."

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PowerFlex Manager UI becomes inaccessible.

UI error ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR after GW reinstall

The "Add Network" Wizard to add workload VLANs to a CO RG is failing with the error VXFM0004.

PowerFlex Manager Platform (PFMP) installation process fails to install fluxtoolkit.

Multiple SDSs decouple after an MDM ownership was issued.