PowerFlex Software

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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 article describes the Dell 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.

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

During maintenance operations on the PowerFlex Management Cluster (PFMC), the SDS node fails to exit and remains in Protected Maintenance Mode (PMM), as MDM rejects the request and returns the error SDS_MAINTENANCE_MODE_EXIT_FAILED with the message "The wrong maintenance mode type was chosen for this SDS".

This article outlines various methods to identify versions in the PowerFlex family, including PowerFlex solutions and software only.

This article shows How To determine why a virtual machine powered off or rebooted by reviewing log files and host details to identify guest shutdowns, user or API requests, HA resets or system faults.

When a user deletes a PowerFlex volume backed VM and the compute/host and SDC node is unreachable, it fails.

During normal use multiple devices in the PowerFlex system go into error state, and Data Unavailability (DU) happens.

Unexpected MDM_DATA_DEGRADED events with no SDS_DISCONNECTED or SDS_RECONNECTED events

PowerFlex SDSs with Samsung PM1733a NVMe SSDs running firmware 1.0.X or 1.1.X may experience intermittent drive dropouts. Elevated latency and slow I/O on affected drives can trigger cascading timeout failures, including Data Unavailability (DU) events, upgrade failures, and daily operation issues.

Powerflex Management server default port 8443 is blocked and the site cannot be reached.

When the PowerFlex Manager REST API gateway becomes unavailable, virtual machines running on Nutanix may start becoming inaccessible, resulting in client outages.

A single slow SSD device may cause endless rebuilds and eventually a Data Unavailability (DU).

The PowerFlex system reports frequent MDM disconnections. The issue was observed in a PowerFlex Rack 15G cluster in this particular scenario.

Dell iDRAC Service Module (dcism) versions earlier than 6.1 contain a defect: when the OS-to-iDRAC pass-through is lost, iSM enters Limited Functionality Mode and retries the connection in an unbounded loop. Every retry runs firewall-cmd --reload twice. The result is thousands of full firewalld reloads per day on the affected node, causing MDM disconnects, SDS decouples, and SCLI login failures.

SSL Certificate Verify Failed - Failed to Bootstrap

The issue occurs during PowerFlex Manager Platform (PFMP) cluster deployments where the customer security standards do not allow to use of the default UMASK value to 0022 and it is changed to some other value. CMO needs UMASK 022 for the helm charts to be set up.

OOM killer (Out Of Memory Killer) was invoked by LIA while generating the getinfo logs causing the SDS service to crash.

Resource Group (RG) operations will complete and cause DU when an MDM cluster has fewer virtual IPs than MDM DATA IPs.

Resource Group (RG) operations will complete and cause DU when the system has fewer Standby Manager or Tie-Breaker MDMs than expected.

Resource Group (RG) operations will complete and cause DU when the system has fewer Standby Manager or Tie-Breaker MDMs than expected.

This article lists PowerFlex 5.1 compatibility, showing which VMware, Nutanix, Microsoft Hyper‑V, Citrix and Linux distributions and versions are validated, plus supported storage nodes.

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 how to reboot different node types for PowerFlex systems.

Running command svm status connection is showing both CloudLink nodes as Inaccessible due to blocked port UDP 1194.

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

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

This article explains the meaning of Dial Home Symptom code SIO02.04.0000009 and how to troubleshoot it.

PowerFlex - After performing network maintenance, the write performance of certain Storage Data Servers (SDS) is degraded.