- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Introduction
- Revision history
- Initial configuration and setup
- Performing common tasks
- Displaying system information at a glance
- Managing block storage
- Protection domains
- Fault sets
- Storage data servers
- Storage pools
- Acceleration pools
- Devices
- Volumes
- NVMe targets
- Hosts
- Managing file storage
- Overview of configuring NAS servers
- About file system storage
- File protection
- Create a protection policy
- Create snapshot rules
- Create a snapshot
- Assign a protection policy to a file system
- Unassign a protection policy
- Modify a protection policy
- Delete a protection policy
- Modify a snapshot rule
- Delete a snapshot rule
- Refresh a file system using snapshot
- Restore a file system from a snapshot
- Protecting a block storage environment
- Snapshots
- Create snapshots
- Overwrite volume content from a snapshot
- Set bandwidth and IOPS limits for snapshots
- Lock and unlock snapshots
- Delete snapshots
- Map snapshots
- Unmap snapshots
- Increase the size of a snapshot
- Migrate a snapshot vTree
- Pause snapshot vTree migration
- Roll back snapshot vTree migration
- Set snapshot vTree migration priority
- Snapshot policies
- Remote protection
- Extract and upload certificates
- Journal capacity
- Add a peer system
- Restart the replication cluster
- SDRs
- Replication consistency group
- Replication direction and mapping
- Create an RCG
- Map RCG target volumes to hosts
- Unmap a host from RCG target volumes
- Set the target to inconsistent mode
- Set the target to consistent mode
- Modify RPO
- Add a replication pair to an RCG
- Pause replication for an RCG
- Resume replication for an RCG
- Create a snapshot of an RCG volume
- Add an RCG snapshot policy
- Perform a failover
- Reverse replication
- Restore replication
- Test Failover
- Stop a failover test
- Freeze an RCG
- Unfreeze an RCG
- Activate an RCG
- Terminate replication in an RCG
- Delete an RCG
- Pause creation of an initial copy
- Resume creation of initial copy
- Set copying priority
- Unpair from RCG
- Snapshots
- Performing lifecycle operations for a resource group
- Deploying a resource configuration in a resource group
- Basic tasks
- Deploying a resource group
- Adding an existing resource group
- Updating a resource group with new firmware and software
- Viewing a compliance report
- Entering and exiting service mode
- Replacing a drive
- Replacing NVDIMM node or battery
- Reconfiguring MDM roles
- Migrating vCLS VMs to shared storage
- Adding components to a resource group
- Resize a volume
- Removing resources from a resource group
- Adding NVMe/TCP storage access
- Additional resource group management tasks
- Basic tasks
- Preparing a template for a resource group deployment
- Basic tasks
- Additional template management tasks
- Deploying a resource configuration in a resource group
- Managing resources
- Basic tasks
- Additional resource management tasks
- Monitoring events and alerts
- Configuring system settings
- User management
- Repositories
- Getting started
- Networking
- Events and alerts
- License management
- Security
- Serviceability
- Software upgrade
- PowerFlex Manager user interface reference
- Additional administration activities
- Retrieving logs for the PowerFlex nodes
- Retrieving logs for PowerFlex components
- Retrieving additional PowerFlex logs
- Enabling audit logging
- Managing storage devices using CloudLink
- Understanding NVMe over TCP load balancing
- Managing NAS server configuration
- Migrating to NVMe/TCP on ESXi
Dell PowerFlex 4.5.x Administration Guide
Deploy the PowerFlex file cluster
Perform this task to deploy the PowerFlex file cluster.
About this task
Prerequisites
Deploy a storage-only or hyperconverged resource group that includes a PowerFlex cluster that will be associated with the PowerFlex file cluster. When you deploy the PowerFlex file cluster, the control volumes that are needed for file enablement will be added automatically.
Steps
- On the menu bar, click Templates.
- On the Templates page, click Create.
- In the Add a Template wizard, click Clone an existing PowerFlex Manager template.
- For Category, select Sample Templates. For Template to be Cloned, select PowerFlex File or PowerFlex File - SW Only. Click Next.
- On the Template Information page, provide the template name, template category, template description, firmware and software compliance, and who should have access to the resource group deployed from this template. Click Next.
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On the
Additional Settings page, enter new values for the
Network Settings,
PowerFlex Gateway Settings,
OS Settings, and
Node Pool Settings.
For the Network Settings in a PowerFlex file cluster template, you must provide a NAS Management network and two NAS Data networks.
For the OS Settings, you must choose Use Compliance File Linux Image.
For the PowerFlex Gateway Settings, select block-legacy-gateway.
- Click Finish.
- After creating the template, click Templates, select the cloned template, and click Modify Template.
- Edit the PowerFlex cluster, PowerFlex file cluster, and node components as needed and click Save.
- Publish the template and deploy the resource group.
Results
NAS volumes are shown during the deployment, and then compressed to one icon with a number based on the number of nodes. For example, you might see the number 4 for a two-node NAS compute-only deployment. Each time you expand the deployment by adding another node, the number is incremented to show that another volume is added.
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