- 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
Deploying a resource configuration in a resource group
This section includes tasks for deploying and managing system resources in a resource group.
A resource group is a PowerFlex Manager object representing the infrastructure that is configured during a deployment. This object persists in PowerFlex Manager if the infrastructure is required. A resource group is viewed and interacted with to perform compliance, health, and life cycle management on the deployed infrastructure. PowerFlex Manager supports the deployment of three types of PowerFlex resource groups:
- Hyperconverged resource groups
- Storage-only resource groups
- Compute-only resource groups
NOTE:Standard users see only the details of the resource groups that they created or for which they have permission.
The Resource Groups page displays the resource groups that are in the following states in both Tile and List view.
| State | Description |
|---|---|
| Healthy | The resource group is successfully deployed and is healthy. |
| Warning | One or more resources in the resource group requires corrective action. |
| Critical | The resource group is in a severely degraded or nonfunctional state and requires attention. |
| Pending | The deployment is scheduled for a later time or date. |
| In Progress | The resource group deployment is in progress, or has other actions currently in process, such as a node expansion or removal. |
| Cancelled | The resource group deployment has been stopped. You can update the resources or retry the deployment, if necessary. |
| Incomplete | The resource group is not fully functional because it has no volumes that are associated with it. Click Add Resources to add volumes. |
| Service Mode | The resource group is in service mode. |
| Lifecycle Mode | The resource group is in life-cycle mode. Resource groups in life cycle mode are enabled with health and compliance monitoring, and non-disruptive upgrade features only. |
| Managed Mode | The resource group is in managed mode. Resource groups in managed mode are enabled with health and compliance monitoring, non-disruptive update, automated resource addition, and automated resource replacement features. |
On the Resource Groups page, you can:
- Click
Deploy New Resource Group to deploy a new resource group.
NOTE:Standard users are allowed to deploy only those resource groups they have created or for which they have permissions.
- Click Add Existing Resource Group to add an existing resource group.
To switch views, click the
Tile View icon
or
List View icon
.
To view the resource groups based on a particular resource group state, select an option from the Filter By drop-down list. Alternately, in the Graphical view, click the graphic in a particular state.
In the Tile view, each square tile represents a resource group and has the status of the resource group at the bottom of the graphic. The state icon on the graphic indicates the state of the resource group. The components in blue indicate the component types that are in the deployment. The components that are in gray indicate the component types that are not in the resource group.
In the
List view, the following information displays:
- Status—Status of the resource group.
- Name—Name of the resource group.
- Deployed By—Name of the user who deployed the resource group.
- Deployed On—Date and time when the resource group is deployed.
- Components—Components used in the resource group.
Click the resource group in the
List view or
Tile view to view the following information about the resource group in the right pane:
- Resource group name and description to identify the resource group.
- Name of the user who deployed the resource group.
- Date and time when the resource group is deployed.
- Name of the reference template that is used in the resource group.
- Number of resources that are in the resource group for deployment, based on component type (cluster or node).
Click View Details to view more details about the resource group. You can also generate troubleshooting bundles from the resource group details page.
Click the resource group name in the List view to open the Resource Group Details page.
Click Update Resources to update the firmware of all nodes in the resource group that are not compliant.
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