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Dell EMC PowerFlex 3.6.0.2 Release Notes

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Operating system known issues and limitations

Learn about known issues and limitations for specific operating systems.

Table 1. Known issues and limitations—operating systems
Issue number & SR number Problem summary Workaround
VXFV-296 Mixing the Mellanox CX-6 100GbE NIC driver with the Broadcom PCIe/OCP 25GbE NIC driver is not supported. Remove the bnxt_en driver and install the Mellanox driver.
VXFV-283 iDRAC support for "Prepare for Removal" on PowerEdge R650/R6525/R750/ nodes fails. NVMe hot-swap on Linux operating systems is supported. Skip the Prepare for Removal step in iDRAC.
VXFV-265 During execution of the command create-namespace with 4k alignment on RHEL 8.4, the following error is encountered:

Warning: namespace0.0 unable to validate alignment

This is a false notification. The command result is as expected, and the resulting DAX device can be used with PowerFlex acceleration devices.
VXFV-243 Upgrade of a RedHat-based operating system to RHEL 8.3 fails if the node contains NVDIMMs. This is due to a known issue on RHEL 8.3: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/8.3_release_notes/index#known-issue_installer-and-image-creation Follow the procedures described in "RHEL/CentOS upgrade to version 8.3" in the Upgrade PowerFlex Guide.
VXFV-224 In a RHEL 8.x-based node using Cloudlink encrypted SDS devices, after reboot the device moves to failed state.
NOTE This issue is much rarer on RHEL7.x-based nodes, but it might occur.
  1. SSH to the relevant SDS's operating system.
  2. Delete the SDS service.
  3. Clear the device errors using the PowerFlexGUI or CLI.
  4. Recreate the SDS service.
  5. Verify that devices come back online. Rebuild/Rebalance will occur if instant maintenance mode or protected maintenance mode was not used.
  6. If instant maintenance mode or protected maintenance mode was used, exit maintenance mode.
VXFV-157 NVMe disks are not supported on RHEL 8.0 due to the following issue:

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/4280341

Failure to observe this limitation might cause RHEL-based SDSs with NVMes to experience kernel panic during a disk removal flow.

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