- 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
Managing resources
This section includes tasks for discovering and managing resources in the PowerFlex Manager inventory.
A resource is a physical and virtual data center object that PowerFlex Manager interacts with, including but not limited to nodes, network switches, VM managers (for example, VMware vCenter), and element managers (for example, CloudLink Center).
The Resources page displays detailed information about all the resources and node pools that PowerFlex Manager has discovered and inventoried. You can perform various operations from the All Resources and Node Pools tabs.
NOTE: Depending upon the number of resources, it might take few minutes to display the discovered resources every time you run the inventory.
The All Resources tab displays the following information about the resources that are discovered and managed in PowerFlex Manager:
| Field name | Description |
|---|---|
| Health |
Indicates the resource health. |
| Compliance |
Indicates if the resource firmware and software compliance state is Compliant, Non-compliant, Update required, or Update failed. Compliance is determined by the firmware/software version for the selected resource, based on the default compliance version. Click the compliance status to view the compliance report. |
| OS Hostname |
Indicates the resource hostname. This capability is available on the PowerFlex appliance and PowerFlex rack offerings only. NOTE:PowerFlex Manager retrieves the hostname value from iDRAC and not the operating system. If the hostname field is not updated in iDRAC, an incorrect value might display in
PowerFlex Manager. Certain operating systems require additional packages to be installed for iDRAC to update the correct hostname.
|
| Resource Name |
Indicates the name of the resource. |
| Management IP |
Indicates the resource IP address. Click the IP address to open the Element Manager. |
| Asset/Service Tag |
Indicates the resource service tag. This capability is available on the PowerFlex appliance and PowerFlex rack offerings only. |
| Deployment Status |
Indicates if the resource deployment status is In Use, Not in use, Available, Updating resource, or Pending Updates. Click the deployment status to view resource group details. |
| Managed State |
Indicates the resource state. If you did not upload a license file in the Initial Configuration Wizard, PowerFlex Manager is configured for monitoring and alerting only. All resources are restricted to the Unmanaged resource state, and you cannot change the state to Managed or Reserved. |
| Model |
Indicates the resource manufacturer name and model number. This capability is available on the PowerFlex appliance and PowerFlex rack offerings only. |
To filter the resources that display, click the toggle filters icon on the
Resource page.
| To filter based on... | Select a value... |
|---|---|
| Resource Type |
|
| Health |
|
| Resource Groups | Allows you to choose one or more resource groups. |
| Resource State | Managed, Unmanaged, or Reserved |
| Node Pool | Lets you choose Global or one or more node pools. |
On the Resources page, you can also perform the following tasks:
| Task | How to perform |
|---|---|
| Discover new resources | Click Discover Resources. |
| Manually run an inventory operation on a resource and update PowerFlex Manager with the latest resource details | Select a resource and click Run Inventory. After running the inventory, you can perform an Update Resource Group Details operation on any resource group that requires the updated resource data. |
| Remove a resource from PowerFlex Manager | Click Remove. |
| Update the firmware or software of a resource | Select one or more resources and click Update Resources. |
| Export a compliance details report for all resources to a CSV or PDF file | Click Export Report and select a report format. |
| Modify the current state of a resource | Select a resource and click
Change resource state to.
You can change the state to Managed, Unmanaged or Reserved. |
| View detailed information about a resource | Select the resource. In the right pane, click View Details. |
| View a firmware and software compliance report for a resource | Select the resource. In the right pane, click the link corresponding to Compliance field. |
| Update password for a resource | Select the resource and click Update Password. |
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