The following is a list of operating systems supported by
PowerFlex.
PowerFlex supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 or 8.8, SLES 15.5 and ESXi 8.0 for NVMe over TCP client and NAS client. For more information, see the
PowerFlex support matrix.
Table 1. Operating system requirementsThis table is a list of operating systems supported by
PowerFlex.
Operating system
Requirement
Linux
Packages required for all components, all Linux flavors:
numactl
libaio1
wget
apr
libapr1
python2-rpm or python3-rpm
yum-utils
Additional package required for SDC:
which
Additional packages required for MDM components:
bash-completion (for SCLI completion)
Latest version of Python 3.X (for newer OSs such as CentOS\RHEL 8.X)
binutils
java-11-openjdk-headless
Additional packages needed by SDS:
smartmontools
smartmontoolslibs
binutils
sg3_utils
hdparm
pciutils
Additional packages needed by Diag-tools:
sar
sysstat
For supported storage controllers, the following packages are also needed:
Dell: perccli
HP raid controllers: hpssacli
Additional packages required for SDS components that contain NVDIMMs:
ndctl
jq
daxio
libpmem
To use the secure authentication mode, ensure that OpenSSL 64-bit v1.1 is installed on all servers in the system.
libopenssl1_0_0-1.0.1g-0.40.1.x86_64.rpm
openssl1-1.0.1g-0.40.1.x86_64.rpm
To use LDAP, ensure that OpenLDAP 2.4 is installed on all servers.
Additional packages needed for LIA: pciutils
NVMe initiator: Linux nvme_tcp and nvme_fabrics modules must be loaded in the OS. Use
Ismod | grep nvme to validate that they are available.
Windows
Only SDC, and LIA are supported components on Windows
To install SDC, ensure that Microsoft Security Update KB3033929 is installed.
To use the secure authentication mode, ensure that these are installed on all servers in the system:
OpenSSL 64-bit v1.0.1 or later (v1.1, however, is not supported)
Visual C++ redistributable 2010 package, 64-bit
The Microsoft Windows "Storage Spaces" feature (available from Windows 8.1 and later), is not supported in Microsoft Failover cluster running on PowerFlex volumes.