PowerFlex Software

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This article provides links to PowerFlex software technical documentation.

PowerFlex CLI (SCLI or Command-Line Interface) is installed as part of the (Meta Data Manager (MDM) component. The PowerFlex CLI is used for users who want to use commands in scripts for automating routine tasks. Logging into SCLI uses a Mutual Transport Layer Security (mTLS) certificate-based login. By default, the certificate used to authenticate is the /opt/emc/scaleio/mdm/cfg/mgmt_ca.pem file. Unlike PowerFlex 3.x, the username and password is the same as the PowerFlex Management Platform (PFMP) WEB UI.

This article covers how to remove a VLAN or change a network within PowerFlex Manager.

Upgrading to PowerFlex Management Platform (PFMP) 4.8 may cause the UI to load with the error "Failed to initialize" or be accessible but unstable.

When you first log in to PowerFlex Manager, you need to set your password. You can also change your password at any time after the first login.

Use this procedure to configure and maintain audit logs of a user in a separate file commands.log in SVMs and PowerFlex storage-only nodes and transmit them to the remote servers.

PowerFlex Manager enables you to register a notification receiver for pushing alert and event messages through webhooks to a target system,for example, BigPanda.

Audit logs are enabled by default after the SDNAS deployment. The logs can be retrieved locally from the SDNAS gateway on the MVM node.

Use this procedure to enable SupportAssist using the connect directly mode or using SCG.

For the SNMP alerts to be forwarded to such a site like BigPanda, the load balancer IP address of the management virtual machine is configured on each of the resources individually.

The information required to correlate between NVDIMMs and SDS devices cannot be found in the PowerFlex Presentation Server (PS).

If the MDM nodes have the letter 'R' in their hostname, importing from version 3.6 to 4.x in PfMP fails to detect the MDM version.

Restore to New Cluster on Upgraded PFXM is failing with error: “cmo.maintenance.mode” already has a value (false), and --overwrite is false.

Use this procedure to configure SNMP on a Cisco Nexus or a Dell PowerSwitch switch.

This article explains the troubleshooting workaround when being unable to start Compute Only (CO) node upgrade with error VXFM00541.

This guide explains the deployment types available, depending on your deployment requirements, proceed to one of the following parts:

In PowerFlex Manager 4.x, the Block UI will not show any SDSs or devices during unmap of volumes when SDNAS nodes present. CLI and API calls will be able to see all SDSs and devices and perform unmap of volumes.

During an upgrade to 3.5 (on an ESXi HCI system) with FG pools, the upgrade will halt upon upgrading the first SDS. The MDMs and LIA will upgrade fine, but the SDS will crash repeatedly. This first SDS will never complete its upgrade, and will never leave maintenance mode.

This article explains the troubleshooting steps when the BOSS card devices used for OS virtual disk are in unknown state but the server and OS are working fine with errors SRV15 SRV16 CTL137 in the iDrac.

This article explains how to use the internal HTTP share for 4.x PowerFlex Manager Release Certification Matrix (RCM), Intelligent Catalog (IC), ISO uploads.

This article explains how to reclaim space on the Management Virtual Machine (MVMs).

During multiple PowerFlex releases, the default CPU idle-state configuration has changed. This has introduced confusion for customers and field teams who are seeing differences between expected vs. deployed configurations. These variations often lead to unnecessary support cases or node configuration adjustments.

This article explains how to troubleshoot the issue of being unable to exit service mode during a gateway upgrade.

Dell PowerFlex Appliance remediation is available for multiple security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system.

Dell PowerFlex Software remediation is available for multiple security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system.

To create the SSH keys for a PowerFlex node, switch, OS Admin, OS User, use this procedure to manually generate the SSH keys that is of RSA type and ensure the key is generated without pass phrase.

Use this procedure to create credentials for root and non-root users in PowerFlex Manager.

For security reasons it might be necessary to change the password for the root user on a VMware ESXi host after installation.

This article explains how to troubleshoot PowerFlex Upgrade failure due to failure to create the /opt/platform/platform directory on the upgrading MVM.