Dell PowerFlex Appliance with PowerFlex 3.x Administration Guide

Powering on a PowerFlex appliance hyperconverged cluster

To safely power on the PowerFlex appliance, power on one component at a time in the order specified in this procedure.

1. Power on the network components in the following order:
   NOTE:Network components take about 10 minutes to power on.
   1. Management switch
   2. Access switches
   NOTE:Ping the management IP address of the switches to verify power on is complete.
2. Using the appropriate VMware vSphere Client power on these VMs in the following order:
   1. PowerFlex gateway presentation server
   2. Both CloudLink Center VMs
   3. PowerFlex Manager
3. Power on the PowerFlex appliance nodes and do the following:
   1. Use SSH to connect to all network switches.
   2. Verify that connected interfaces are not in a not connected/down state, with the command: show interface status.
   3. Use iDRAC to power on all the PowerFlex appliance compute nodes and verify that they are fully booted to the ESXi screen.
   4. Using the VMware vSphere client of the vCenter that manages the PowerFlex appliance cluster, and take each PowerFlex appliance node out of Maintenance Mode.
      1. Power on all SVMs

      2. Enable DRS and HA on the PowerFlex appliance cluster.

   5. Log in to PowerFlex.

      PowerFlex

      Versions prior to PowerFlex 3.5

      Verify that all software-defined storage (SDS) is online. Verify that all disks are online. In Configuration > Protected domain, select the protected domain, click More > Activate and repeat for each protection domain. Repeat the steps for source and destination, if asynchronous replication is enabled Verify the following if asynchronous replication is enabled Click Protection > SDR. Verify all the SDRs are healthy. Click Protection > Journal Capacity. Ensure journal capacity has already added. Click Protection > RCGs. Verify that the RCG in the replication cluster returns to a working state.

      Verify that all software-defined storage (SDS) is online. Verify that all disks are online. Select Backend > Storage > Protection Domain > Activate and repeat for each protection domain.

   6. From the VMware vSphere client that manages the PowerFlex appliance cluster, do the following:
      1. Rescan to rediscover PowerFlex storage datastores.
      2. Power on the customer VMs. VMs might be displayed as inaccessible because PowerFlex storage is not available until all the SVMs complete initialization.