PowerMax Engine

This article provides a list of security vulnerabilities that cannot be exploited on Dell EMC PowerMax Embedded NAS (eNAS) version 8.1.15.*, but which may be identified by security scanners.

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How to perform storage performance analysis and sizing of ASP capacity and individual disks for an IBM i host system.

The Solutions Enabler symcfg list -demand and Unisphere displays show Metadata usage by percentage, but do not show the numbers that are used for the calculation. Dell users can connect to the array and gather this data.

The Dell VMAX and PowerMax enterprise storage platform families support storage-based Non-Disruptive Migrations (NDM) to migrate business-critical host systems to new storage arrays without application downtime. With the release of the PowerMaxOS 5978.444.444 code family, NDM support is added for the IBMi host platform. NOTE 1: For IBMi systems that also use Dell's native STM software toolkit (SRDF/TimeFinder Manager for IBMi), there are some additional considerations when the (optional) final step in the NDM process is done for a device-identity reset (unspoofing) of the migrated devices. Read the instructions provided below, prior to performing the identity reset! NOTE 2: The device identity reset, also mentioned as an "unspoof" operation, has implications for the next initial program load (IPL) phase after the unspoof. Read further details below.

Managed File Transfer (MFT) and ConnectEMC call home may not function if the Secure Connect Gateway (SCG) or Secure Remote Services (SRS) gateway is updated.

Authentication issues will occur if symauth is enabled and daemons are restarted, before user and group role mappings are defined.

After updating Emulex drivers to version 12.8.317.0, users report loss of connection to their arrays.

Host may be impacted with high read latency of up to 3 seconds and TASK1 timeouts if an EDS director is in DD state. Fix 107048 is required.

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Mainframe SuperPAV (XPAV) Alias I/O is timing out on TASK22. Fix 106539 is required.

VMAX or PowerMax upgrades from 5977 to 5978.221, then to 5978.479 may cause a FICON metadata mismatch that would keep new paths from logging in correctly. This could also be seen after a Power On Reset, and prevent the loading of new IBM MF channel code. Fix 106985 is required.

In a Mainframe environment, during Online Fast IML, the FICON directors may become unresponsive when handling too many State Change Interrupts (SCI). Fix 106587 is required.

Dell Container Storage Modules (CSM) Container Storage Interface (CSI) Driver for PowerMax fails volume creation with errors finding storage group (SG) and volume.

Replication Data Pointers (RDP) LRU contention may cause memory failures. Fix 106475 is required.

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FICON port encountering bad incoming Fibre Channel frames may go Port busy impacting systems attached to the array. Fix 106495 required.

RE (GigE) port link drop and will not establish.

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Dell PowerMaxOS, Dell PowerMax EEM, Dell Unisphere for PowerMax, Dell Unisphere for PowerMax Virtual Appliance, Dell Unisphere 360, Dell Solutions Enabler and Dell Solutions Enabler Virtual Appliance remediation is available for multiple security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system.

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Dell PowerMaxOS, Dell PowerMax EEM, Dell Unisphere for PowerMax, Dell Unisphere for PowerMax Virtual Appliance, Dell Unisphere 360, Dell Solutions Enabler and Dell Solutions Enabler Virtual Appliance remediation is available for multiple security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system.

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Write are failing from time to time, leading to an LVM error (LVM_IO_FAIL - EWRPROTECT) for no obvious reason, as if the device was "write protected." The error was reported as: "AIX shows disk operation error on array with PowerPath. No error showed in the array…."

When PowerPath for Windows version 6.1 is installed on Windows Server 2016, validation alerts indicate that many drivers have dates earlier than the OS, because the PowerPath release predates the OS.

AppSync cannot re-link to a mounted target device.

Two NMMedi ISB coherency groups are configured, one for Management and Business Intelligence (MBI) hosts and the other for Electronic Medical Record (EMR) hosts. Overlapping operations result in Integrated Server Backup (ISB) error "local_copy is not in NO ACCESS state."

SnapVX Snapshot linked device showing larger Exclusive Effective than expected