This topic describes the advanced settings options that you can use to configure the vSphere
PowerFlex plug-in deployment settings.
To access these settings, on the
PowerFlex screen, click
Advanced settings.
The
Advanced Settings dialog box appears.
Enable the features you want before starting the
PowerFlex deployment, or, if you are in the middle of a deployment, you can click
Cancel, then make the changes. When you restart the deployment, you can pick up from where you left off.
Enable VMDK creation
Enables the addition of devices as VMDK, as opposed to RDM.
NOTE: Use of VMDK-based disks for storage devices is not recommended, and should be used only if no other option is possible.
Force RDM on device with unknown RDM support
Enables non-SCSI controller devices to be added as RDM.
NOTE: Do not enable this option if the device does not support SCSI Inquiry Vital Data Product (VPD) page code 0x83.
Allow the take over of devices with existing signature
Enables the reuse of devices that were part of a previous
PowerFlex deployment, and were not removed properly. This setting will revert to not selected after each use, and must be reactivated if required again.
Allow using non-local datastores for
PowerFlex Gateway
Enable deployment of the
PowerFlex Gateway SVM on non-local datastores (such as remote storage), in case of insufficient space on the local datastore, or if no datastore can be found. Another advantage of having the
PowerFlex Gateway available at all times is that even when an ESXi node is rebooted, the
PowerFlex Gateway can vMotion like any other VM residing on a non-local datastore.
Parallelism limit
Enables the increase of the parallelism limit (default: 100), thus speeding up the deployment, which can be useful in deployment of a very large system (several hundred nodes). This is dependent on the processing power of the vCenter.
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