ScaleIO Ready Node-PowerEdge 13G

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.

This section provides the PowerFlex Manager 3.X compatibility details for PowerFlex rack components.

This procedure describes how to add another IP address subnet for use by the MDM cluster. This addresses scenarios where the MDM cluster uses a single network, or when an existing network must be replaced by a different one or to simply add another network (to an already multiple-network cluster). The MDM supports up to eight networks.

The guide explains that devices may show error notifications within PowerFlex version 3.6, typically caused by hardware or communication faults, requiring the errors to be cleared from the UI.

Retrieve the OS device paths in a Linux-based or ESXi based SVM server PowerFlex system with NVMe devices configured.

Retrieve the OS device path for a specific virtual drive (VD) in a Linux-based, Windows, or ESXi running PERCCLI server PowerFlex system with an H730p/H740p controller.

Retrieve the OS device paths in a Linux-based or ESXi based Storage Virtual Machine (SVM) server PowerFlex system with an HBA330 controller.

get_info.sh - collect diagnostic information from a PowerFlex host and pack it into a support bundle

After MDM switchover, SDSs cannot reconnect and MDMs crash.

SDS gets decoupled - the system might experience DU occasionally if more than one SDS decouples concurrently or in case the SDS decouples during a rebuild.

When a vMotion clone of a VM guest is submitted, it takes a lot longer than expected. Scenario Due to an environmental configuration issue, there was contention on the vMotion configured NICs that conflicted with iSCSI and VxFlex SDC traffic, causing reduced performance.

SDS fails to start up.

After restart of ESXi/SVM, the SDS comes up but is in a disconnect state in the UI/CLI.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

This article explains how to troubleshoot the alert PFX00056.0000001 - The Events and Alerts service is unavailable - NATS is down.