Dell PowerFlex Appliance with PowerFlex 4.x Administration Guide

Power on PowerFlex storage-only nodes

Use this procedure to power on PowerFlex storage-only nodes.

1. From iDRAC, power on all PowerFlex storage-only nodes and allow them time to boot completely.
   NOTE:Perform steps 2 to 6 only for a PowerFlex storage-only node cluster, and where the MDM is part of the PowerFlex storage-only node. Do not perform steps 2 to 6 when the PowerFlex storage-only node is part of a hyperconverged environment. Activation of PD is included as part of power on PowerFlex hyperconverged node.
2. Log in to the PowerFlex Manager:
   1. Click Block > SDSs. Verify all the SDSs are healthy.
   2. Click Block > Devices. Verify all the SDSs are healthy.
   3. Click Block > Protection Domain, select the protection domain, and click More actions > Active.
3. Log in to all host iDRACs as root and confirm the NTP, syslog, and SNMP settings.
4. Use SSH to connect to all network switches.
5. To verify that connected interfaces are not in a not connected state, type:

   show interface status

6. Do the following:
   1. Log in to the jump server on the controller stack.
   2. At the command prompt or the terminal, type nslookup, against the correct DNS and verify that the DNS is correct.
      For example, nslookup eagles-r640-f-158.lab.vce.com (node hostname) 10.234.134.100 (dns server ip address).