PowerFlex custom node

Provides links to the PowerFlex software, PowerFlex rack, PowerFlex appliance, PowerFlex custom node, and VxFlex Ready Node technical documentation.

Dell has a Customer Replaceable Unit (CRU) program for many of our hardware systems. The CRU program allows customers to replace designated hardware components. For a list of the hardware components that are designated as CRU for a specific hardware system, go to the Dell Warranty and Maintenance Page.

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

Dell Storage Simple Support Matrices on E-Lab Navigator provide the optimal interoperability for your storage solution.

PowerFlex components such as the MDM are disconnecting and reconnecting quickly and frequently. Lost connection followed by connected found in MDM events Connecting after 80-190ms

This article explains what a predictive drive failure (error code PDR16) means, why it occurs, and provides step-by-step instructions to troubleshoot and resolve the issue. It covers recommended actions such as backing up data, updating firmware, and replacing the disk if necessary to ensure storage health and prevent data loss.

Procedure to update firmware to mitigate an issue of NVDIMM batteries losing charge on PowerFlex custom (R650 & R750) nodes..

This article provides quick links to Dell APEX Block Storage technical documentation.

An alert is raised when the Storage Node is running in Instant Maintenance Mode (IMM) for more than the allowed time - STOARGE_NODE_EXCEEDED_IMM_TIMEOUT.

Dell VxFlex Ready Node and PowerFlex Custom Node remediation is available for multiple security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system.

This article describes the basic steps required to collect support data from a Kubernetes-based PowerFlex Manager Platform (PFMP) system and the PFMP installer. Support data is collected using a standalone, single-file utility, pfmp_support. As such, the utility's executable can be copied to and run on the host from which support data is to be collected. Using this utility does not require a functioning PFMP. As such, support data can be collected during PFMP installation or when the PFMP UI is inaccessible.

Issues can occur when upgrading CloudLink with PowerFlex Manager 3.8 that will cause the service upgrade to fail.

The PowerFlex Gateway upgrade operation fails to upgrade the MDM cluster.

When REST APIs are queried for capacity usage statistics, the result does not include values for raw thin-capacity usage.

PowerFlex upgrade to version 3.0.1.1 failed when using IM

"vtree" migration fails due to timeout.

The following command was performed on the SDC to add MDM. ./drv_cfg --add_mdm --ip <MDM_IP_ADDRESS_LIST> Following reboot of SDC, the ./drv_cfg --query_mdm reports 0 MDMs retrieved.

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.

PowerFlex Manager Update Service Details fails with error "a mix of LACP, and non-LACP port groups are not allowed" caused by duplicate port group names or Fault Tolerant port group active uplink.

Offline upgrade of PowerFlex Manager How to manually upgrade PowerFlex Manager without Secure Remote Services.

This article is about an error that a user may see when adding a "DAX" device into the acceleration Pool.

Dell VxFlex Ready Node and PowerFlex Custom Node remediation is available for multiple security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system.

SDCs may lose the ability to access its volumes.

REST API call fails with an incomplete response.

PowerFlex: MDM event: MDM_CLUSTER_FAILED_EXPOSE_VIRT_IP ERROR

Rebuild and Rebalance impacting frontend IO workload.

This knowledge article describes how to set up a Bring Your Own (BYO) Linux PowerFlex Management Platform (PFMP) for Appliance Deployment with PowerFlex 4.x. This environment is only supported using a Request Process Qualification (RPQ) approval.

In this case the VxRack-Flex, was having its RCM upgraded.

ScaleIO: While applying for a license getting Error: MDM failed command. Status: The current system configuration exceeds the license entitlements.

In SLES15, the service name was changed to "sdc", from the commonly used service name "scini".