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Launch the PowerFlex Manager from Dell APEX Navigator for Multicloud Storage

You can monitor PowerFlex and perform operations that are supported by PowerFlex by launching the PowerFlex Manager from Dell APEX Navigator for Multicloud Storage.

After deploying Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS, Dell Technologies recommends that you log in to PowerFlex Manager as the admin user and change the default password, Admin123!, set during the deployment.

When you deploy Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS from Dell APEX Navigator for Multicloud Storage, you must provide a value for the routable subnet. Ensure that you provide subnet IPs that are accessible from your company's network. An IP from this subnet is assigned to the PowerFlex Load Balancer and this IP is used to launch PowerFlex Manager. A routable subnet ensures that the PowerFlex Load Balancer IP is accessible from your company's network.

NOTE: When you deploy Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS using the existing Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) option and choose the routable subnet during deployment configuration, you do not need additional network configurations to access PowerFlex Manager.

When you deploy Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS using the new VPC option and provide the routable IPs during deployment configuration, to access PowerFlex Manager you must explicitly set up for connectivity from your company's network to the newly created subnet with the routable IP range.

To access PowerFlex Manager for Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS from Dell Premier APEX home page, follow one of the navigation paths:

Table 1. Navigation path to access PowerFlex ManagerThis table lists the main menu and the navigation path that is used to access PowerFlex Manager.
Menu Navigation path
Manage > Storage
  1. On the Cloud Deployments tile, click Manage cloud deployments.
  2. Click the Actions button next to your Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS and select Go to PowerFlex Manager.
You are redirected to the PowerFlex Manager login page.
Manage > Storage
  1. On the Cloud Deployments tile, click Manage cloud deployments.
  2. Click the deployed system.
  3. In the Deployment Details page, click the Actions drop-down menu.
  4. Click Go to PowerFlex Manager.
You are redirected to the PowerFlex Manager login page.
Monitor > Systems
  1. Click Monitor > Infrastructure in APEX AIOps Observability home page.
  2. Select your PowerFlex system.
  3. Click Launch PowerFlex Manager on the upper right corner of the APEX AIOps Observability user interface.
You are redirected to the PowerFlex Manager login page.

If you are unable to access the PowerFlex Manager IP, verify the following:

  • You are connected to the network from where the PowerFlex Manager IP is routable.
  • The PowerFlex Load Balancer provisioned in AWS is available.
  • The AWS EC2 instances for the PowerFlex cluster are in a Running or Healthy state.

If PowerFlex Manager is not accessible from Dell APEX Navigator

If the subnet you provided is not a routable subnet, you cannot access the PowerFlex Manager from your company's network. In such a scenario, use a jump host to access the PowerFlex Manager. Depending on your IT firewall configuration preferences, the following scenarios are possible:

  • The jump host is deployed in the same subnet as PowerFlex, and firewall rules are created to access the jump host.
  • The jump host is deployed in a separate subnet with an allow-list IP range.

Internet access is required to access both the PowerFlex Manager UI, and Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS hosted on Dell.com from the jump host:

  1. Deploy the jump host in a public subnet.
  2. Configure the Security group for the jump-host EC2 instance to only allow ingress traffic from the Remote Desktop Client.

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