- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Revision history
- Introduction
- Revision history
- Administering the network
- Customer switch port configuration examples
- Configuration data
- Configuring the Cisco Nexus access aggregation network
- Configuring the Dell EMC PowerSwitch access switches
- Using an embedded operating system-based jump server
- Install the embedded operating system-based iDRAC tools
- Converting the Windows jump VM to the embedded operating system jump VM
- Verifying connectivity between Storage Data Server (SDS) and Storage Data Client (SDC)
- Verifying connectivity between Storage Data Server (SDS) and PowerFlex Gateway
- Checking the maximum transmission unit on all switches and servers
- Adding a network to the deployed service using PowerFlex Manager
- Add a network to a service
- Add a VLAN to an access switch connected to a PowerFlex appliance cluster
- Verifying a VLAN configuration
- Gather logs from the network switch for troubleshooting
- Customer switch port configuration examples
- Upgrade the Dell EMC network
- Check the current version of switch operating system
- Save the license file and the configuration
- Download Dell EMC Networking OS10
- Connect to a switch
- Configure a USB drive for OS10 installation
- Manual install using USB
- Upgrade OS10 image from existing OS10 install
- Upgrade from non-OS10 operating system to OS10 using ONIE
- Install OS from ONIE
- Update ONIE using an existing ONIE and TFTP
- DIAG OS installation or update
- Install or upgrade EDA-DIAG tools
- Firmware requirements
- Verify Dell switch firmware
- IP address assignment in ONIE
- Administering the storage
- PowerFlex management controller datastore and virtual machine details
- Determining and switching the MDM
- Update resource inventory
- Add volumes to the service
- Add volumes to a service in lifecycle mode
- Adding a PowerFlex appliance node to an existing cluster
- Removing a PowerFlex node for maintenance
- Rebooting a PowerFlex node
- Resize a volume
- Resize a volume in lifecycle mode
- Unmapping a volume
- Unmap a volume on PowerFlex management controller 2.0
- Unmapping a volume using a PowerFlex version prior to 3.5
- Removing a volume
- Remove a volume on the PowerFlex management controller 2.0
- Removing a volume using a PowerFlex version prior to 3.5
- Disabling persistent checksum on medium granularity storage pools
- Enabling persistent checksum for medium granularity storage pools
- Enable fine granularity metadata read cache using the command line
- Add licenses to PowerFlex and PowerFlex Manager
- Managing volumes, nodes, and network components
- Monitoring system health
- Upgrading PowerFlex appliance firmware
- Upgrade Windows and Linux compute-only nodes
- Mapping a volume using a PowerFlex version prior to 3.5 to a Windows PowerFlex compute-only node
- Mapping a volume using Windows PowerFlex compute-only node
- Enabling and disabling SDC authentication
- Administering the storage with asynchronous replication
- Remote replication on PowerFlex hyperconverged nodes
- Remote consistency group (RCG)
- Replication direction and mapping
- Adding a replication consistency group
- Checking the current copy status
- Modifying the recovery point objective
- Adding a replication pair to a remote consistency group
- Unpairing from a remote consistency group
- Freezing a remote consistency group
- Unfreezing a remote consistency group
- Setting the target to inconsistent mode
- Setting the target to consistent mode
- Running a test failover
- Stopping test failover
- Running a failover
- Restoring replication
- Reversing replication
- Creating a snapshot of the remote consistency group (RCG) volume
- Pausing the remote consistency group
- Pausing the initial copy
- Resuming the initial copy
- Resuming the replication consistency group
- Setting priority
- Mapping remote consistency groups to the Storage Data Clients (SDC)
- Mounting a VMFS datastore copy on the target VMware ESXi cluster
- Unmapping an Storage Data Client (SDC) from the remote consistency group target volumes
- Configuring replication on PowerFlex storage-only nodes
- Add storage data replication to PowerFlex
- Extract and add the MDM certificate
- Create the replication consistency group
- Disabling replication on PowerFlex storage-only nodes
- Freeze the remote consistency group
- Remove the remote consistency group
- Remove a peer system
- Remove replication trust for peer system
- Enter SDS in maintenance mode
- Remove storage data replication from PowerFlex
- Remove a storage data replication RPM
- Clean up network configurations
- Exit SDS in maintenance mode
- Remove journal capacity
- Remove target volumes from the destination system
- Configuring and viewing alerts
- Administering PowerFlex Manager
- PowerFlex Manager limits
- Back up and restore
- Add or modify user accounts
- Assigning users to services
- Recovering a lost password
- Access switch password management
- VMware vCenter password management
- VMware ESXi operating system password management
- Minimum VMware vCenter permissions
- Windows server operating system password management
- Updating passwords in PowerFlex Manager
- Embedded operating system password management
- Presentation server root password management
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux user and password management
- SUSE user and password management
- Credentials management
- Restarting the PowerFlex Manager virtual appliance
- Deploying PowerFlex nodes using PowerFlex Manager
- Deployment modes
- Full network automation
- Full network automation: Deploying a PowerFlex compute-only node with Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS
- Full network automation: Deploying a PowerFlex storage-only node
- Full network automation: Deploying a VMware ESXi PowerFlex hyperconverged node or PowerFlex compute-only node
- Adding volumes to a PowerFlex hyperconverged node or PowerFlex compute-only node
- Partial network automation
- Partial network automation: Deploying a PowerFlex compute-only node with Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS
- Partial network automation: Deploying a PowerFlex storage-only node
- Partial network automation: Deploying a VMware ESXi PowerFlex hyperconverged node or PowerFlex compute-only node
- Adding volumes to a PowerFlex hyperconverged node or PowerFlex compute-only node
- Restoring the PowerFlex Gateway
- Configure SNMP for PowerFlex Gateway
- Installing the PowerFlex Gateway
- Installing the PowerFlex Gateway prior to PowerFlex 3.5
- Changing the root password on the VM
- Configuring the PowerFlex Gateway network interfaces
- Configuring the PowerFlex Gateway NTP client
- Configuring the PowerFlex Gateway hostname
- Installing the Java and PowerFlex Gateway RPMs
- Restoring the PowerFlex Gateway configuration
- Deploying the PowerFlex GUI presentation server
- Linking and unlinking the MDM to the presentation server web UI
- Upgrading VMware vCenter
- Upgrading VMware vCenter infrastructure management components
- Stage and upgrade the iDRAC and firmware
- Shutting down all the VMs running on the controller host
- Upgrading VMware vSphere ESXi
- Powering on all the VMs running on the controller host
- Upgrading the iDRAC service module
- Change the SVM CPU clock reservation
- Migrating vCLS VMs on controller nodes
- Upgrading the embedded operating system jump VM
- Installing the offline repository
- Upgrading a PowerFlex appliance environment
- Intelligent catalog (IC) trains and the upgrade process
- Verify and change the maximum transmission unit (MTU) value
- Add a new compatibility management file
- Upgrade the PowerFlex Manager virtual appliance
- Back up using PowerFlex Manager
- Back up the appliance SSL and trusted certificates
- Power off the PowerFlex Manager appliance
- Take a snapshot of the PowerFlex Manager appliance
- Upgrading the PowerFlex Manager virtual appliance without using Secure Remote Services (from a local repository path)
- Confirming service settings
- Adding a new Intelligent Catalog file and OS images to PowerFlex Manager
- Upgrade the PowerFlex presentation server
- Upgrade CloudLink Center
- Upgrading PowerFlex
- Update PowerFlex appliance nodes
- Migrating VMware vSphere Cluster Services (vCLS) VMs
- Upgrading Cisco NX-OS 7.x to Cisco NX-OS 9.x
- Upgrading the electronic programmable logic device (EPLD)
- Upgrade firmware for IPI G5 network controller
- Upgrading VMware NSX-T Edge nodes
- Stage and upgrade the iDRAC and firmware
- Validate the vSAN health
- Shut down all the VMs on the NSX-T Edge Gateway host
- Put VMware NSX-T Edge Gateway host into maintenance mode
- Upgrade VMware vSphere ESXi
- Exit maintenance mode
- Power on all VMs running on the VMware NSX-T Edge Gateway host
- Upgrade the iDRAC service module
- Upgrade the VMware vSphere Distributed Switch
- Upgrade the VMware vSAN disk format (vSAN storage option only)
- Verifying VMware vSAN health (vSAN storage option only)
- Enable replication on existing PowerFlex hyperconverged nodes
- Prerequisites
- Workflow
- Remove an existing PowerFlex hyperconverged service from PowerFlex Manager
- Create and configure replication port groups
- Preparing the SVMs for replication
- Enter the SDS nodes into maintenance mode and power off
- Add virtual NICs to SVMs
- Record the MAC address of the newly added network interface controllers
- Modifying the vCPU, memory, vNUMA and CPU reservation settings on SVMs
- Modify the memory size
- Increase the vCPU count
- Setting the vNUMA advanced option
- Set the vNUMA advanced option
- Modifying the memory size according to the SDR requirements for FG pool-based PowerFlex systems with replication
- Increasing the vCPU count according to the SDR requirement
- Setting the vNUMA advanced option
- Editing the SVM configuration
- Powering on the SVM and configuring network interfaces
- Install SDR RPMs on the SDS nodes (SVMs)
- Exit SDS maintenance mode
- Verify communication between the source and destination
- Add journal capacity percentage
- Adding the Storage Data Replicator to a PowerFlex appliance
- Create the peer system between the source and destination site
- Add the peer system
- Create the replication consistency group
- Define the network for replication in PowerFlex Manager
- Add an existing service to PowerFlex Manager
- Retrieving PowerFlex performance metrics
- Performing maintenance activities in a PowerFlex cluster
- Administering the CloudLink Center
- Adding and managing CloudLink Center licenses
- Manage a self-encrypting drive (SED) from CloudLink Center
- Manage a self-encrypting drive from the command line
- Release a self-encrypting drive
- Release management of a self-encrypting drive from the command line
- Changing the CloudLink secadmin user password
- Unlocking the CloudLink secadmin user
- Setting CloudLink Vault passcodes
- Back up and restore CloudLink Center
- Powering off and on the PowerFlex appliance cluster
- Power off the PowerFlex management controller 2.0
- Power on the PowerFlex management controller 2.0
- Powering off a PowerFlex appliance hyperconverged cluster
- Powering on a PowerFlex appliance hyperconverged cluster
- Powering off PowerFlex appliance two-layer cluster
- Powering on PowerFlex appliance two-layer cluster
- Powering off PowerFlex compute-only nodes with Windows Server 2016 or 2019
- Powering off PowerFlex compute-only nodes with Red Hat
- Ports and authentication protocols
- Additional documentation
Dell EMC PowerFlex Appliance Administration Guide
Power on all VMs running on the VMware NSX-T Edge Gateway host
Use this procedure to power on all the VMs running on the VMware NSX-T Edge Gateway node.
Steps
- Log in to the VMware NSX-T Edge Gateway host.
- Select Virtual Machines.
- Power on all the VMs running on the VMware NSX-T Edge Gateway host.
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