PowerScale OneFS

This article provides information about supported patches and service releases for OneFS and the HealthCheck system.

This document highlights minimum, recommended, and latest code versions for Dell Technologies Enterprise and Datacenter Infrastructure products. We carefully evaluate and monitor code deployment data to ensure that product releases meet our stringent expectations to provide our customers with reliable products and solutions.

How to identify which node has the SmartConnect Service IP (SSIP).

Enumerating System Message Block (SMB) shares by using Computer Management.

A high number of vnodes accumulating in memory can result in one or more nodes getting into an Out Of Memory (OOM) condition. Any cluster using Snapshots and SmartPools that is running OneFS 9.11 or later can have this issue.

An article going over how to disable Oplocks for use with SMB protocol on a OneFS cluster.

On clusters upgrading to OneFS 9.9 or above, in rare instances Virtual Machines (VMs) may lose access to the ESXi NFSv4.1 datastore during the upgrade failover process from old code (Pre-OneFS 9.9) to new code (OneFS version 9.9 and above).

Upon upgrading PowerScale OneFS, sudo commands ask for a password three times and then fail to execute the command with "sudo: 3 incorrect password attempts"

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

The behavior of "Authentication" option under AD provider differentiating after 9.7.1.3 or higher causes authentication failure

OneFS: Event notification: Power supply failure detected in switch xxxx on int-xxx fabric (Event ID 200020009)

This is an FAQ article on common PowerScale Licensing scenarios during the activation process.

Dell is restricting OneFS 9.11 downloads due to an out of memory (OOM) issue, affecting clusters in some circumstances. This issue is resolved in the upcoming 9.12 release.

This article provides links to several Dell Community pages.

How to determine the subnet controller of a PowerScale InfiniBand fabric.

For disconnected or dark-site customers using PowerScale, registering their cluster with Dynamic Licensing needs interaction with the Software Licensing Portal. Users must download a registration file with the '.dl' extension and upload it to the PowerScale UI (WebUI) after registering the product in the portal. However, the OneFS UI only accepts files with a '.json' extension, creating an incompatibility that prevents successful registration. The error seen states "You are only allowed to select a JSON file for the upload".

This article discusses the way to clear the Var partition as it nears capacity.

Receiving an Error 18 at 0 depth message when validating the certificate signing request for the source or target cluster

All the masking view information is visible in SYMCLI. The customer is unable to see the masking view information for all local arrays. Within Unisphere, none of the array masking view details are visible.

SyncIQ policy can fail if a default type quota exists on a subdirectory of the target root path. This error can also happen during a resync-prep job if a default-type quota exists in a subdirectory of the local root path.

The scope of this KB is to interpret an error where an NDMP administrator does not get authenticated.

When replicating data using SyncIQ, if a files access time (atime) has changed on the Production cluster. Access time (atime) is not replicated to the Target cluster when SyncIQ completes the replication.

Cluster deadlocking from cfifo thread contention

Understanding New File Attribute creation with file size parameters within FilePool Policies.

This article describes the best practices and recommendations for client-side settings and mounts options when using the Network File System (NFS) protocol to connect to a PowerScale cluster and applies to all supported versions of OneFS.

This article describes Intermittent disconnection to PowerScale nodes' dynamic IPs during rolling reboot or rolling upgrade. This happens due to invalid (old) Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) entries on the client.

This article describes when Flooding Mode and Gratuitous Address Resolution Protocol (GARP) based detection are not enabled. Plus, data-plane learning is not disabled and GARPs are not propagated properly. The results are client disconnects after a node IP movement. This issue covers Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI).

This article describes changes in Nexus switch default configurations. There are tips on "Nexus Operating System" (NX-OS) switch configurations and Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI).

This article describes how to collect basic switch information using packet capture tools.

Starting from OneFS 9.3.0, OneFS supports Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) Access Control Lists (ACL) to improve compatibility. It is disabled by default. This article describes the steps to enable HDFS ACL.