PowerFlex Software

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: How to reclaim deleted blocks on PowerFlex ESXi thin volumes.

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.

This article describes the basic steps required to collect support data from a Kubernetes-based PowerFlex Manager Platform (PFMP) system and the PFMP installer.

PowerFlex Manager generates a 2-year default self-signed SSL certificate when it is deployed. You can replace this default SSL certificate by generating a CSR, having it signed by a trusted certificate authority and uploading the signed certificate to PowerFlex Manager. If you are not using a trusted certificate authority and must renew the default self-signed SSL certificate, then you can use the following instructions.

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.

The user Cannot log in to scli after changing the PFxM SSL certificate. After changing the self-signed SSL certificate to a custom-signed SSL certificate, logging in to scli no longer works.

The PowerFlex gateway Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate expires every 90 days. This affects the Container Storage Interface (CSI) Driver for PowerFlex deployments that use this certificate.

Failed disks on two SDS nodes created failed capacity, causing the to stay in EXIT_MAINTENANCE_IN_PROGRESS and block exiting maintenance mode until the hardware is replaced and rebuilt.

This article provides information about troubleshooting and fixing the virtual machine (VM) error: A general system error occurred: vDS host error

PDF compliance report generation fails with a timeout and an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException error in PowerFlex Manager 5.1.0.0. To restore PDF functionality, PFMP must be upgraded.

This article explains the command switch_cluster_mode to change the MDM cluster to 1 or 3 or 5 node cluster

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

This article explains upgrading Cisco Nexus switches to Nexus Operating (NX-OS) 10.x or later in PowerFlex 4.x, with EPLD image handling, TFTP SCP transfer, reboot, and verification.

An acknowledged alert cannot be cleared using the PowerFlex Presentation Server.

This article lists the PowerFlex hardware End of expansion (EOexp) and Software End of Standard Support (EoSS) codes.

This article details how to collect logs from PowerFlex Manager (3.8, 4.x 5.x), iDRAC8\iDRAC9 SupportAssist, Get Info on MDM SDS, Gateway, CloudLink, and VMware ESXi hosts.