PowerFlex rack HW

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 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.

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.

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

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.

This article details step-by-step procedures to enable suppression of ESXi alarms on TPM when Secure Boot is not enabled on ESXi.

This article shows the PowerFlex release matrix, and guidance on how to correlate the various packages.

PowerFlex Manager: RKE2 upgrade fails repeatedly due to "405 Not Allowed" error while creating the upgrade payload During the PowerFlex Management Platform (PFMP) upgrade, the process fails repeatedly, looping at the point of creating the upgrade payload folder in the http-share. The failure occurs with an HTTP 405 Not Allowed error.

This article describes a cause for hostd service on ESXi to be non-responsive, and cause the server to become unresponsive to management operations from vCenter. The particular scenarios where this happens is when NFC operations such as backup or replication jobs are performed on disks with an IO filter attached.

Dial home alert is logged when there is a disconnection between SDC multiple SDS.

PowerFlex Replication Consistency Group (RCG) LAG time continues to increase after peering is disconnected and then restored between the source and destination sites.

The Dell PowerFlex Appliance and PowerFlex Rack Migration to PowerFlex 4.x guide covers the migration from PowerFlex 3.8.x to PowerFlex 4.5.x and PowerFlex Manager 4.5.x.

This article explains an issue where the keycloak-0 pod reports a health check failure due to database connectivity problems caused by an incorrect DNS configuration. This issue impacts authentication services managed by keycloak

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.