- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Introduction
- Deployment
- How will Dell APEX Navigator for Multicloud Storage access my AWS account?
- Deployment Prerequisites
- Configure network settings for the Secure Connect Gateway (SCG) subnet
- (Optional) Configure network Access Controls List (ACLs) for SCG subnet
- Using Elastic Block Store (EBS) volume encryption
- Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS
- Dell APEX File Storage for AWS
- Mobility
- Mobility use cases
- Mobility for Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS
- Establish a trust relationship between PowerFlex system and Dell APEX Navigator
- Prerequisites to enable data mobility from an on-premises cluster to Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS
- Prerequisites to enable data mobility between Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS and another Dell APEX Block Storage cluster
- Move data on volumes between the on-premises system and the cloud systems
- Managing mobility groups
- Mobility for Dell APEX File Storage for AWS
- Monitoring
- Auditing
- Managing
- Launch the PowerFlex Manager from Dell APEX Navigator for Multicloud Storage
- Launch the PowerScale OneFS web interface from Dell APEX Navigator for Multicloud Storage
- Changes made in PowerFlex Manager or AWS reflected in Dell APEX Navigator for Multicloud Storage
- Changes made in PowerScale OneFS web interface or AWS reflected in Dell APEX Navigator for Multicloud Storage
- SmartConnect DNS configurations
- Decommission system
- Licensing
- About your evaluation period
- Converting your Evaluation to a Full Subscription
- Purchase a new subscription
- Activate your subscription license
- View the status of your entitlements and licenses
- Find expiration information about evaluation or subscriptions through email or notifications
- Set evaluation or subscription email messages
- Support
- API Resources
- AWS permissions for Dell APEX Storage for Public Cloud
- Sample permission policies for Dell APEX Navigator for Multicloud Storage for AWS
- Common error codes related to your AWS account
- Setting up Application Hosts to Access Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS
Dell APEX Navigator for Multicloud Storage Using Your Service
Decommission system
This section explains how to decommission a Dell APEX Storage for AWS deployment using Dell APEX Navigator for Multicloud Storage.
About this task
When a system is decommissioned, it can no longer be monitored or managed using Dell APEX Navigator or AWS. Decommissioning includes removing deployed storage system, the Secure Connect Gateway (SCG), and the cloud resources assigned to the system from the Dell APEX Navigator group of systems. After decommissioning a system, you can reclaim any licenses that were assigned to it.
Decommissioning prerequisites
Before you decommission a deployed system, ensure that:
- No data mobility operations are running for the given system.
- Data mobility groups have been disassociated from the given system.
- You have the IT user role (to decommission a system with trial licenses).
- You have the IT manager role (to decommission a system with purchased licenses).
- For Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS: No new license has been applied to the given system within the last one hour.
Decommissioning considerations
- Decommissioning a system does not delete its VPC. VPCs can only be manually deleted from AWS.
- The SCG is deleted only if Dell APEX Storage for AWS is the only storage system that is associated with the SCG. If other systems are associated with the SCG, the SCG is not deleted.
NOTE:When you decommission a system,
Dell APEX Navigator cannot delete AWS resources that are shared with other resources. You can find information about dependent resource chains in the decommission job log details. If you do not require these resources anymore, review the job log details and manually clean up the resources from the AWS management console.
Steps
- Go to Cloud Deployments > Systems, and click the Actions menu next to the system you want to decommission. Select Decommission.
- In the Decommission screen, select the check boxes to agree to the decommission acknowledgment, and click Decommission.
- Type "Decommission <DeploymentName>".
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Continue the procedure for the product that you are decommissioning:
- For
Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS: You are directed to the management sign-in page for the system. Enter the credentials for the system.
Once the credentials are validated, you are directed back to Dell APEX Navigator. Check the acknowledgment in Dell APEX Navigator.
- For
Dell APEX File Storage for AWS:
- Enter the name of the system to decommission and click Decommission.
- For the system being decommissioned, manually delete its VPC endpoint from AWS.
NOTE:Once deleted, the VPC endpoint's security group (named APEX-Nav-443) remains to allow traffic to port 443.
NOTE:If you manually delete a storage system from AWS and try to decommission another storage system available within the same VPC or SCG using APEX Navigator, then APEX Navigator cannot decommission the SCG. Since manually deleting a system does not reflect the correct status of the system in APEX Navigator, even if there is an entry, it is a stale entry. To resolve this issue, reach out to a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to manually remove the stale entry from APEX AIOps Observability and Secure Remote Services. - For
Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS: You are directed to the management sign-in page for the system. Enter the credentials for the system.
Results
For Dell APEX File Storage for AWS, use the Identifier of a system to monitor its decommissioning. To find the Identifier ID, go to .
Once the system is decommissioned, you can reclaim the storage and license of the decommissioned system. See Software Licensing Central to reclaim the storage and license.
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