Dell PowerFlex 4.5.x Technical Overview

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Operating system requirements

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.
VMware	Compute-only (SDC) support: VMware ESXi operating systems: 8.0 or 7.0 (SDC only). The latest patches of ESXi and vCenter are tested periodically. For the most updated list, see the PowerFlex support matrix .