- 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
Updating firmware and software
Prerequisites
You can update the firmware and software of shared resources from the Resources page.
This capability is available on the PowerFlex appliance and PowerFlex rack offerings only.
A firmware or software update on a node that is part of a cluster is successful only if the node is set to maintenance mode. PowerFlex Manager sets nodes in a cluster to maintenance mode before performing an update. To ensure that the node remains in maintenance mode, ensure that there are other nodes available in the cluster to host the virtual machines of the node being updated.
A firmware update on a VMware cluster is successful only if the cluster is properly configured for HA. For example, the host system can be set in maintenance mode and the virtual machines can be moved from one host to another in the cluster.
CAUTION:Check the
Alerts page before performing the upgrade. Look for major and critical alerts before proceeding.
About this task
Steps
- On the menu bar, click Resources.
- Select the check box for one or more resources and click Update Resources.
- On the Update Details page, confirm that all the information is correct. For a PowerFlex gateway, you must reconfigure one or more nodes before proceeding with the upgrade.
- Click Next.
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On the
Summary page, select one of the following options:
- Allow PowerFlex Manager to perform firmware and software updates now—Select this option to update the firmware and software immediately.
PowerFlex Manager applies the firmware updates and reboots the selected resources immediately. If the resource is in use, this update could be disruptive.
- Schedule firmware and software updates—Select this option and then select the date and time to update the firmware and software.
PowerFlex Manager applies the firmware updates at the selected date and time and reboots the selected resources. If the resource is in use, this update could be disruptive.
- Allow PowerFlex Manager to perform firmware and software updates now—Select this option to update the firmware and software immediately.
- If you are updating a PowerFlex gateway, type UPDATE POWERFLEX to confirm that you are ready to proceed with the update.
- Click Finish.
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