PowerFlex custom node

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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.

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This article explains the procedure to perform a clean Shut Down or Startup of a PowerFlex system running in ESXi or Two Tier Environment.

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

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.

After performing a PowerFlex Management Platform (PFMP) restore operation, the PFMP UI About page displays an incorrect version.

Storage Only (SO) Node Deployment fails as the OS repository is missing on the MVMs after a resynchronization.

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

PowerFlex Manager UI becomes inaccessible.

Unlike Storage Pools (SP) and SDS devices, the Acceleration Pool, and Direct Access (DAX) devices do not show any statistical counters, and always shows zero.

This article explains when it is safe to ignore PowerFlex UI non-compliance when hardware component updates are necessary. The compliance flag in PFxM is a best-practice target matrix. If support and engineering guide our customer community to update hardware to fix an issue seen in the field, such as stated in an LKB, DTA, or DSA, deviation is allowed, supported, and acceptable.

The PowerFlex Gateway resource displays an alert about the PowerFlex system is unreachable.

OpenStack experiences issues managing volumes with sporadic behavior when creating and deleting them.

When running certain scli commands on the Primary MDM, an error returns about not being able to load the LDAP library.

This KB article describes how to enable on-demand compilation of PowerFlex Software Defined Controller (SDC) drivers on Linux systems.

During an SVM conversion process, SVM NICs may be assigned incorrectly.

Deployment fails with the error message "SSL certificate problem: Unable to get an issuer certificate."

A guide to deregistering and reregistering the alert connector in PowerFlex Manager 3.6 through 3.8

When using Windows 2019 SDC and running Microsoft SQL 2019 backup, the backup fails and reports there is data corruption or inconsistency (DI).

QueryChangedDiskAreas API returns incorrect sectors after extending virtual machine VMDK file with Changed Block Tracking (CBT) enabled in ESXi 8.0u2.

During deployment, install, and expansion, 15G nodes can be staged and or shipped with older code. They could be sitting onsite for months or a year prior to being activated or deployed. PowerFlex 15G assets have known issues that require the latest PowerEdge code or known problems could arise. R650/R750 systems can exhibit hardware symptoms of no POST or boot during deployment or updates related to older version of CPLD. To ensure optimal functionality that we must ensure the BIOS, iDRAC, and CPLD are current.

PowerFlex: How to view specific event messages with PowerFlex Manager Platform (PFMP) 4.x.

This article covers the steps to generate a get_info bundle from all PowerFlex nodes in a cluster.

This article guides through resolving inventory issues in the MDS Powerflex System caused by missing MDM IP addresses, as indicated by MDS kubectl logs and LIA logs on the MDMs.

The PowerFlex Manager 4.x UI shows alerts from various sources, whether it be the PowerFlex block cluster (MDM) or Hardware events. Each event can only be cleared by the system/service originally called them. Sometimes that service is no longer running and the alert will not clear. This KB explains how to clear the stuck alerts. Each event can only be cleared by the system/service that originally called it. Sometimes that service is no longer running, and the alert will not clear. This article explains how to clear the stuck alerts.

This article contains the initial steps to take on all PowerFlex performance-based issues when observing performance degradation, low Input Output Operations Per Second (IOPs), low MB per sec, or high latency.

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

Unable to import vCenter networks into PFxM.

The PowerFlex Manager Platform (PFMP) 4.x UI Screen stops responding, and the cursor disappears when manually entering hostnames and IP addresses in the final deployment screen.