- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Getting Started
- Post-Deployment Activities
- Post-deployment tasks
- Post-deployment task checklist
- Prepare lockbox files for Java upgrade
- Create the lockbox
- Customer support
- Configure native users
- Configure LDAP users
- Configure SNMP
- Enable OpenSSL FIPS compliance
- Create and map volumes
- Set up replication on peer systems
- Install and configure PowerFlex SRA
- Post-deployment best practice suggestions
- Link PowerFlex presentation server to the MDM cluster
- View MDM certificate details in the PowerFlex GUI
- Configure the SDS for NVDIMM health awareness
- Post-deployment tasks
- PowerFlex Performance Fine-Tuning
- PowerFlex performance fine-tuning
- Tune PowerFlex for best performance
- Performance tuning post-installation
- PowerFlex system changes
- Optimize Linux
- Optimize ESXi
- Optimize SVM settings
- Optimizing VM guests
- Optimize Hyper-V
- Optimize AIX
- Optimize Windows
- PowerFlex Performance Parameters
- RAID controller virtual disk settings
- Apply Performance Profiles to system components
- PowerFlex performance fine-tuning
- Configure and Customize
- Configuration
- Protection Domains
- Fault Sets
- SDS
- Storage Pools
- Configuring acceleration
- Devices
- Volumes
- Configuring SDCs
- Manual SDC configuration/verification
- Update approved SDC IP addresses using the PowerFlex GUI
- Approve SDCs using the PowerFlex GUI
- Restricted SDC mode
- Add an external SDC to an existing PowerFlex system
- SDC operations
- Update the SDC driver with IP address changes
- Detecting new volumes
- Query volumes using drv_cfg
- Query tgt objects using drv_cfg
- Query GUID using drv_cfg
- Query MDMs using drv_cfg
- Loading a configuration file using drv_cfg
- Adding an MDM using drv_cfg
- Modifying an MDM IP address using drv_cfg
- Permanent Device Loss state
- Update the SDC parameters in VMware based HCI or compute node
- Run the SDC driver on RHEL\SLES with multipath enabled
- SDC authentication
- Apply Performance Profiles to system components
- RFcache (xcache) package installation
- Increase SVM memory to accommodate additional SDS device
- Modify an SDS port during I/O
- Configure the PowerFlex presentation server
- Unlink from the MDM cluster
- PowerFlex VASA provider and vVols
- MDM Cluster
- Configuring MDM cluster
- Configure virtual IP addresses using the PowerFlex Installer
- Security
- Approving pending security certificates
- Default self-signed certificate expires on the PowerFlex Gateway
- Default self-signed certificate expires on PowerFlex GUI
- Upgrade the PowerFlex Gateway when a custom certificate is used
- Change the PowerFlex Gateway's keystore password
- Change the PowerFlex presentation server's keystore password
- Change the PowerFlex presentation server's truststore password
- Certificate management for PowerFlex presentation server
- Certificate management for PowerFlex Gateway
- Use SSH authentication for the PowerFlex Gateway
- Configure SSL component authentication
- Configure SDC access to the MDM
- Approved encryption methods
- Login banner overview
- Managing LIA security
- User Management
- Fault reporting features
- Add, Remove or Rename Components
- Logs
- LIA
- Configuration
- Protection
- Snapshots
- Snapshot policies
- Remote Protection
- Add a peer system
- SDR journal capacity
- Restart the replication cluster
- SDR
- Replication Consistency Group
- Replication direction and mapping
- Add a RCG
- Map RCG target volumes to SDC
- Unmap an SDC from RCG target volumes
- Set target to inconsistent mode
- Set target to consistent mode
- Modify RPO
- Add a replication pair to RCG
- Pause RCG
- Create snapshot of RCG volume
- Failover
- Reverse replication
- Restore replication
- Test Failover
- Test failover stop
- Freeze RCG
- Unfreeze RCG
- Activate RCG
- Terminate RCG
- Pause initial copy
- Resume initial copy
- Set priority
- Unpair from RCG
- VMware environment specific tasks
- Operating System Patching
Configure and Customize Dell PowerFlex v3.6.x
Activate devices
Activate a device that was inactivated, or that was added to a system using the Test only option.
About this task
- Storage devices were added to the system using the Test only option for Device Tests, and successfully passed the tests.
- Storage devices were inactivated, and you want to bring them back online.
Steps
- From the PowerFlex GUI, in the left pane, click .
- In the right pane, select the relevant device check box, and click .
- In the Activate Device <device name> dialog box, click Activate.
- Verify that the operation completed successfully and click Dismiss.
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