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This article provides links to PowerFlex software documentation.

Dell PowerFlex remediation is available for the Apache Log4j Remote Code Execution Vulnerability that may be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system. Dell recommends implementing this remediation as soon as possible in light of the critical severity of the vulnerability.

After following NDU flow and switching to 1_node MDM cluster, upgrading Secondary/TB MDMs and trying to put the back into the cluster, MDM throws an error.

Upgrade will not start/finish the Finalize step, since the MDM is shown in an upgrade state in progress.

When trying to create and map a volume to a Compute Node in OpenStack the operation is taking much more time (comparing to the other nodes) and the client is logging errors against the newly created device.

Network connectivity issues cause Secondary MDM/s status to become Not synchronized.

There is only one SDC that is having issues w/ performance.

SDS reports sockets closed without any network events or evidence of networking issues.

Errors are present whenever rebooting the SDC. IO times out from PowerFlex Gateway.

Issue Description vSphere ESXi hosts hang and become inaccessible randomly after experiencing high latency within the datastores.

Applications that are using PowerFlex volumes are reporting corruption when RMcache is enabled.

In PowerFlex Manager 4.0, performing a Linux Compute Only deployment using a SLES 15 SP3 ISO gets stuck during the OS installation phase.

Multiple SDS nodes may intermittently panic with a NO_RESOURCES assertion in spef_SynchronizeExtentDataWithIoCommitPhaseCk during high internal SPEF resource utilization.

The customer is using the SDC monitoring pod (also called the sdc-monitor sidecar) and noticed an excessive amount of CPU is being used by it.

Using PowerFlex Manager Deployment or Upgrade will fail in Diskless nodes due to the backplane. When performing deployments on diskless Compute Only (CO) nodes, if the backplane shows as non-compliant PFxM attempts to upgrade and it Fails.

This article explains using the Boot Optimized Storage Solution - S2 (BOSS-S2) configuration utility to import a foreign virtual disk, a feature only when the controller detects a foreign disk.

The guide explains converting a hard drive to non‑RAID by iDRAC, then claiming it for a PowerFlex Virtual Storage Area Network (VSAN) cluster and assigning cache or capacity roles.

The user is checking performance using FIO (also seen with vdbench) and reports high latency during a rebuild.

This article explain how to fix the restore operation failure when password is not encoded as mentioned in the admin guide

The ScaleIO Data Server (SDS) panics at startup, producing stack traces and causing a single‑point‑of‑failure state; a Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) rule set is suspected, on version 3.5.1.1.

PowerFlex upgrade from 3.6.0.6 to 4.5.2 fails, logs show “Failed to fork wrapper” and “Get Installed Components command was not successful” on nodes, caused by low memory and vCPU resources for SVMs.

Storage‑Only Resource Group (RG) deployment fails with missing MDM IPs, connection timeouts and ARP errors; the cause is unconfigured port channels required by Partial Network Automation (PNA).

Upgrade is blocked because a decommissioned vCenter remains in a compute‑only resource group on PFxM 3.6, preventing PowerFlex Management Platform from complying with the intelligent catalog.

The Collects Logs feature collects the logs from all the system nodes although only a few were selected.

Top PowerFlex Software and Hardware Dial Home Alerts; PowerFlex

This article explains the step by step procedure to restore PFMP from a backup file

Memory errors and CMCI storm entries in logs cause load, SDS stalls and decoupling; a failing Dual In-line memory module (DIMM) triggers interrupts, EDAC CMCI rate exceeds threshold, causing storm.

This KB explains how to perform the WSFC conversion at a high-level. It also covers converting an Oracle RAC environment from RDMs to shared VMDKs on NVMe/TCP, even though Oracle RAC does not require SCSI3‑PR. Oracle RAC can run on an SDC‑based VMFS datastore, but because PowerFlex does not support Clustered VMDK on SDC‑based VMFS, SCSI3‑PR‑dependent applications cannot use that configuration. Oracle RAC explanations are also high-level.

The customer is using PowerFlex SDR replication to test failover but the destination volume gets mounted "RO" in the multipath -ll output on the Oracle Linux server.

PowerFlex 3.x UI is inaccessible, receive a 404 error when trying to open it. PowerFlex 3.x is reachable from the CLI.