Reading Time: 3 minutesPowerFlex Manager LDAP Integration shows how to integrate the PowerFlex Manager with LDAP for authentication purposes. Our lab environment has a PowerFlex Manager 4.5.2 and an Active Directory on a Windows Server 2022.The default username to access the PowerFlex Manager UI is “admin.” It is a local username, and its password is created during the…
Reading Time: 3 minutesInstalling the SDC on Windows shows how to install the SDC software on a Windows-based server. Our Windows system is a Windows Server 2022 Standard, and our PowerFlex Cluster runs on a 4.5.2 version. Both are running on a virtual (nested) environment. 1- Copy the SDC software to the Windows system and execute the installation:…
Reading Time: 3 minutesResizing a PowerFlex Volume shows how to resize an existing PowerFlex Volume and the steps necessary to reflect it in the filesystem. Our PowerFlex cluster has version 4.5.2 and runs on a lab (nested) environment.The PowerFlex volume is already mapped to a Linux SDC (there is an EXT4 filesystem). 1- Access the PowerFlex Manager UI…
Reading Time: 2 minutesMounting a PowerFlex Volume on Linux’s SDC Boot shows how to properly configure the /etc/fstab file to mount a PowerFlex Volume during the system’s boot. Our PowerFlex Cluster has the 4.5.2 version and runs on a virtual environment (nested). Our SDC is a Ubuntu-based Linux! 1- The first step is to identify the disk partition…
Reading Time: 3 minutesAdding and Mapping a new Volume to a Linux SDC shows how to add a volume using the PowerFlex Manager interface and how to map it to a Linux SDC. Our PowerFlex cluster is running on a lab (nested environment). The PowerFlex version is 4.5.2, and our Linux SDC is CentOS-based! Adding a Volume 1-…
Reading Time: 2 minutesRenaming the SDC through CLI shows how to change the SDC hostname to a friendly name using the PowerFlex command line. I used the PowerFlex 4.5 CLI Reference Guide. If you want to check this guide, click here! 1- In this case, we have added both SDCs and the Name is “N/A.” So, based on…