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Dell PowerFlex 4.6.x Technical Overview

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Operating system requirements

The following is a list of operating systems that are supported by PowerFlex.

PowerFlex supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.x (Technology Preview for NVMe over TCP), SLES 15.5 and VMware ESXi 8.0 for NVMe over TCP client. For more information, see the PowerFlex support matrix.

Technology preview features are not fully supported and may not be functionally complete. These features are not suitable for deployment in production. However, these features are provided to the customer as a courtesy and the primary goal is for the features to gain wider exposure with the goal of full support in the future. Customers may find these features useful in a non-production environment. Customers are encouraged to provide feedback and functionality suggestions for a technology preview feature before it becomes fully supported.

Table 1. Operating system requirementsThe following table is a list of operating systems that are supported by PowerFlex.
Operating system Requirement
Linux

Packages required for all components:
  

  • 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 operating systems 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 operating system. 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 the following 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  VMware ESXi and vCenter are tested periodically. For the most updated list, see the PowerFlex support matrix.
  

VMware ESXi has discontinued support for the Intel Xeon Platinum 8100, Gold 6100/5100,
Silver  4100, Bronze 3100 (Skylake-SP series) because  Intel has transitioned the Skylake generation processors into the End of Servicing Update or End of Servicing Lifetime phase.
For more information, see CPU Support  Deprecation and Discontinuation in vSphere Releases.  

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