Dell PowerStore 500T PowerStore Bulletin - August 2021 - Page 3

• Review and ERROR and WARNING messages raised during the Pre-Upgrade Health Check and address each accordingly. Consult Dell Technologies Support Services for assistance. Outstanding Alerts • Log into PowerStore Manager of the appliance being upgraded and review any outstanding alerts present by selecting the Monitoring tab. • Determine if any alerts are outstanding that require attention. Review alerts with a Critical, Major, or Minor severity. If possible, attempt to rectify any raised alerts reported. • Consult the Events and Alerts Reference Guide for actions to resolve outstanding alerts. • If needed, contact Dell Technologies Support Services for assistance with evaluating and addressing any outstanding alerts prior to proceeding with the upgrade. Knowledge Base Articles Knowledge Base articles have been published to address how to, best practices, known issues for specific PowerStore environments. You can access these KB's through the following link and in many cases, these are in multiple languages. • This article explains how to obtain /activate/troubleshoot licensing on PowerStore products. https://PowerStoreLicensing • This article describes how to remove uplinks on the internal ESXi hosts of PowerStore X appliances for N-VDS deployment and how to add PowerStore X controller VMs to the Distributed Firewall (DFW) Exclusion List in VMware NSX-T 3.1 Data Center. https://PowerStoreXUplinks • This article explains a new feature that was introduced in PowerStore to allow users to log into the system over ssh or PowerStore Manger (UI) using the Service LAN ports. https://PowerStoreServiceLANPorts • This article covers the PowerStore major components LED states, locations, descriptions, and more. Understanding the LED states is critical for troubleshooting. https://PowerStoreLEDStates PowerStore Simple Support Matrix Simple Support Matrices are produced through extensive testing by Dell EMC E-Lab. The PowerStore SSM is a configuration summary. The versions listed represents the supported Platform / Operating Systems, information on Backup & NDMP applications, Limits, Replication, Anti-Virus, Dell Technologies Ecosystem, Third-Party Ecosystem, Migration and VMware licensing / support, Refer to this link for the latest version July. 2021: https://PowerStore-Simple-Support-Matrix Host Configuration Guide This document provides the latest guidelines and best practices on attaching and configuring external hosts to PowerStore systems. It includes information on topics such as multipathing, zoning, and timeouts. https://PowerStoreHCG Performance / Best Practices Oracle Database Best Practices This article delivers guidance for using Dell EMC PowerStore T model arrays in an Oracle® 12cR2 (and later versions) Oracle Standalone environment. The document also includes guidance for the Real Application Clusters (RAC) database environment on Linux operating systems. This paper was developed using the PowerStore 5000T model array, but the information is also applicable to PowerStore 500T through 9000T models. The primary Linux operating system that was used in this paper was Oracle Linux 7.5 with the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 7. The content is also applicable to other Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel with Oracle Linux 6 and 7, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7 versions. PowerStore T models offer a storage solution for Oracle workloads regardless of the application characteristics. This paper discusses the best practices of the PowerStore 5000T model with unified storage https://PowerStoreOracle Page 3