- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Introduction
- Revision history
- Accessing PowerFlex appliance components
- PowerFlex appliance deployment types
- Managing components with PowerFlex Manager
- Add licenses to PowerFlex Manager
- Configuring VMware vCenter high availability
- Enable or disable SSH on the VMware ESXi host dynamically
- Performing maintenance activities in a PowerFlex cluster
- Monitoring system health
- Monitor system resources
- Manage compliance
- Enabling SupportAssist
- Managing events and alerts
- CloudLink Center
- Network management
- Storage management
- Protection domains
- Fault sets
- Storage data servers
- Storage pools
- Acceleration pools
- Devices
- Volumes
- NVMe targets
- Hosts
- Storage management for PowerFlex controller nodes
- Configuring replication on PowerFlex nodes
- Redistribute the MDM cluster using PowerFlex Manager
- Set rebuild and rebalance settings
- Enabling or disabling SDC authentication
- Log in to PowerFlex using scli
- Prepare for storage data clients authentication
- Configure storage data client to use authentication
- Enable storage data client authentication
- Disable SDC authentication
- Expand an existing PowerFlex cluster with SDC authentication enabled
- Add a Windows or Linux authenticated SDC
- PowerFlex file storage
- Multitenancy
- NAS server
- Create a NAS server for NFS (UNIX-only) file systems
- Create NAS server for SMB (Windows-only) file systems
- Change NAS server settings
- Configure settings of an existing NAS server
- Manage the network routes between the NAS server and the supported external services
- Modify or configure the NAS server naming services
- NAS server sharing protocols
- NAS server protection and events
- Managing NAS server configuration
- NAS server settings
- NAS server security
- Create a global namespace
- File systems
- Quotas
- Shares and exports
- File protection
- Create a protection policy
- Create snapshot rules
- Create a snapshot
- Modify a snapshot
- Delete a snapshot
- Assign a protection policy to a file system
- Unassign a protection policy
- Modify a protection policy
- Delete a protection policy
- Modify a snapshot rule
- Delete a snapshot rule
- Refresh a file system using snapshot
- Restore a file system from a snapshot
- Clone NAS server and file system
- Clone the file system
- Create a thin clone using a snapshot
- Reconfiguring MDM roles
- Set rebuild and rebalance settings
- Enabling or disabling SDC authentication
- Log in to PowerFlex using scli
- Prepare for storage data clients authentication
- Configure storage data client to use authentication
- Enable storage data client authentication
- Disable SDC authentication
- Expand an existing PowerFlex cluster with SDC authentication enabled
- Add a Windows or Linux authenticated SDC
- Enabling replication on existing PowerFlex hyperconverged nodes
- Prerequisites
- Workflow
- Remove a PowerFlex hyperconverged resource group from PowerFlex Manager
- Create and configure replication port groups
- Preparing the SVMs for replication
- Shut down the SVM
- Add network adapters
- Record the MAC address of the newly added network interface controllers
- Modify SVMs
- Install SDR RPMs on the SDS nodes (SVMs)
- Exit SDS maintenance mode
- Adding the Storage Data Replicator to a PowerFlex appliance
- Create and copy certificates
- Add replication networks to PowerFlex Manager
- Add the hyperconverged resource group back to PowerFlex Manager
- Enabling replication on existing PowerFlex storage-only nodes
- Prerequisites
- Gather the MDM IP address information
- Install SDR
- Configure replication networks
- Create static routes
- Add SDRs to PowerFlex Manager
- Add firewall rules for SDR
- Remove existing storage-only resource group from PowerFlex Manager
- Add replication networks to PowerFlex Manager
- Add the storage-only resource group back to PowerFlex Manager
- Add peer replication systems
- Create the remote consistency group
- Secure component verification and TPM enablement on the PowerFlex nodes
- Administering the CloudLink Center
- Add the CloudLink Center license in PowerFlex Manager
- Adding and managing CloudLink Center licenses
- Configure syslog and audit logs in CloudLink
- 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
- Backup and restore
- Powering on and off
- Power on a Technology Extension with PowerScale
- Power on a PowerFlex appliance
- Power on the PowerFlex management controller 2.0
- Power on the PowerFlex management node
- Power on the VMware NSX Edge nodes
- Power on PowerFlex storage-only nodes
- Power on PowerFlex file nodes
- Power on all PowerFlex hyperconverged nodes
- Power on PowerFlex compute-only nodes
- Complete the powering on of PowerFlex appliance
- Power off a PowerFlex appliance
- Deactivate protection domain and power off PowerFlex storage-only node using PowerFlex Manager
- Power off PowerFlex compute-only nodes with VMware ESXi
- Power off PowerFlex file nodes
- Power off PowerFlex hyperconverged nodes with VMware ESXi
- Power off the VMware NSX Edge nodes
- Power off the PowerFlex management controller 2.0
- Power off the PowerFlex management node
- Complete the powering off of PowerFlex appliance
- Power off a Technology Extension with PowerScale
- Usernames and password management
- PowerFlex servers
- PowerFlex Manager
- Virtualization
- Management VMs
- Change CloudLink passwords
- Manage EmbeddedOS15.3 users credentials for the jump server
- Changing the IPI appliance password
- Changing a user account password on the IPI appliance
- Changing the operating system password
- System logs and audit logs
- PowerFlex Manager logs
- VMware vCenter logs
- CloudLink logs
- Network logs
- Configuring syslogs and audit logs
- Configure syslogs using VMware ESXi
- Configure and forward the syslogs using VMware vCenter
- Configure syslog and audit logs in CloudLink
- Configure audit logs in SVMs and PowerFlex storage-only nodes
- Configure iDRAC for audit logging
- Retrieve SDNAS audit logs
- Configuring syslogs for Dell PowerSwitch and Cisco Nexus switches
- PowerFlex audit log
- Migrating to NVMe over TCP on VMware ESXi
Dell PowerFlex Appliance with PowerFlex 4.x Administration Guide
Migrating to NVMe over TCP on VMware ESXi
This section contains instructions for migrating a VMFS datastore from SDC to NVMe over TCP using Storage vMotion.
PowerFlex offers the following options for migrating from SDC to NVMe over TCP on VMware ESXi:
- Online migration using Storage vMotion (VMFS only), as described in this section
The standard way of using Storage vMotion to move storage now also supports switching protocols by migrating to a new datastore.
- Offline conversion (VMFS only)
Offline conversion is a new option for converting an existing VMFS datastore from SCSI (SDC) to NVMe over TCP without having to copy all the data over the network. This option is covered in this KB: SCSI to NVMe offline VMFS datastore migration steps
Dell Technologies recommends using VMware Storage vMotion to migrate data from a volume that is presented by SDC to one presented by NVMe over TCP.
This migration is intended for VMDK (noncluster) customers who want to convert their SDC to NVMe over TCP.
Linux environments, VMware ESXi clusters, and RDMs are not included in this section.
Requirements
See the following VMware product documentation links for information about Storage vMotion requirements and limitations: Storage vMotion requirements and limitations
See the following VMware product documentation links for information about requirements and limitations of VMware NVMe Storage: Requirements and limitations of VMware NVMe storage
Requirements for VMware NVMe storage
See the following VMware KB article for more details about storage migration (Storage vMotion), with the virtual machine powered on: Migrating virtual machines with raw device mappings
Ensure that you satisfy these requirements before you begin the migration:
- Ensure the VMware ESXi version is 7.0u3 or later.
- Ensure the PowerFlex version is 4.5.x.
Workflow
The following steps summarize the workflow that you need to follow to migrate fro SDC to NVMe over TCP using Storage vMotion:
- Create and map a new volume of equal or greater size than the current VMFS datastore via NVMe over TCP to the same host.
- Scan for the newly mapped volume.
- Create a new datastore on the NVMe over TCP volume.
- Perform the standard data migration using Storage vMotion by using a non-disruptive process.
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