Dell Technologies – PowerMax

V1.0.4: Product Guide

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V1.0.4: ReadMe

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Terraform Provider for Dell Technologies PowerMax

The Terraform Provider for Dell Technologies (Dell) PowerMax allows Data Center and IT administrators to use Hashicorp Terraform to automate and orchestrate the provisioning and management of Dell PowerMax storage systems.

The Terraform Provider can be used to manage volumes, storage groups, port groups, hosts, host groups and masking views.

Support

For any Terraform Provider for Dell PowerMax issues, questions or feedback, please follow our support process

License

The Terraform Provider for Dell PowerMax is released and licensed under the MPL-2.0 license. See LICENSE for the full terms.

Prerequisites

Terraform Provider	PowerMax Unisphere Version	OS	Terraform	Golang
v1.0.4	10.2 10.1	ubuntu22.04.x rhel9.x	1.14.x 1.15.x	1.25.x

List of DataSources in Terraform Provider for Dell PowerMax

List of Resources in Terraform Provider for Dell PowerMax

Installation and execution of Terraform Provider for Dell PowerMax

The installation and execution steps of Terraform Provider for Dell PowerMax can be found here.

Releasing, Maintenance and Deprecation

Terraform Provider for Dell Technnologies PowerMax follows Semantic Versioning.

New versions will be release regularly if significant changes (bug fix or new feature) are made in the provider.

Released code versions are located on tags in the form of “vx.y.z” where x.y.z corresponds to the version number.

V1.0.4: Installation Guide

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Installation of Terraform Provider for Dell PowerMax

Installation from public repository

The PowerMax Provider can be found on the Terraform Registry here

The provider will be fetched from the public repository and installed by Terraform automatically. Create a file called main.tf in your workspace with the following contents

terraform {
  required_providers {
    powermax = { 
      version = "1.0.0"
      source = "registry.terraform.io/dell/powermax"
    }
  }
}

Then, in that workspace, run

terraform init

Installation from source code

Clone this repo
In the root of this repo run

make install

Then follow installation from public repo

Usage

Once you have installed the PowerMax provider, you can start using it in your Terraform configuration files. The provider has a number of resources that you can use to manage your PowerMax storage arrays.

For example, you can use the powermax_storagegroup resource to create a new storage group:

resource "powermax_storagegroup" "test" {
  name             = "terraform_sg"
  srp_id           = "SRP_1"
  slo              = "Gold"
  host_io_limit = {
    host_io_limit_io_sec = "1000"
    host_io_limit_mb_sec = "1000"
    dynamic_distribution  = "Never"
  }
}

For more resources, please refer to Product Guide

SSL Certificate Verification

For SSL verifcation on RHEL, below steps can be performed:

Copy the CA certificate to the /etc/pki/ca-trust/source/anchors path of the host by any external means.
Import the SSL certificate to host by running

update-ca-trust extract

V1.0.4: Release Notes

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Terraform Provider for Dell PowerMax

Release Notes 1.0.4

© 2026 Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. All rights reserved. Dell, and other trademarks are trademarks of Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. Other trademarks may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Content

This release note contains supplemental information about Terraform Provider for Dell PowerMax.

Revision history

The table in this section lists the revision history of this document.

Table 1. Revision history

Revision	Date	Description
01	September 2023	Release of Terraform Provider for Dell PowerMax 1.0.0
02	December 2023	Patch release of Terraform Provider for Dell PowerMax 1.0.1
03	March 2024	Patch release of Terraform Provider for Dell PowerMax 1.0.2
04	May 2025	Patch release of Terraform Provider for Dell PowerMax 1.0.3
05	June 2026	Patch release of Terraform Provider for Dell PowerMax 1.0.4

Product Description

The Terraform Provider for Dell PowerMax allows Data Center and IT administrators to use Hashicorp Terraform to automate and orchestrate the provisioning and management of Dell PowerMax storage systems.

The Terraform Provider can be used to manage hosts, host groups, masking views, port groups, storage groups, snapshots, snapshot policies, ports and volumes.

New features & enhancement

Addressed security vulnerablities in PowerMax dependencies.
Added BlackDuck security fixes
Fixed OpenAPI spec and client zip issues
Added clarification to endpoint variable

Limitations

There are no known limitations.

Distribution

The software package is available for download from the Official Terraform Registry as well as from the Terraform Provider for PowerMax GitHub page.

Documentation

Readme

Product Guide

Dell Technologies – PowerMax

V1.0.4: Product Guide

V1.0.4: ReadMe

Terraform Provider for Dell Technologies PowerMax

Table of Contents

Support

License

Prerequisites

List of DataSources in Terraform Provider for Dell PowerMax

List of Resources in Terraform Provider for Dell PowerMax

Installation and execution of Terraform Provider for Dell PowerMax

Releasing, Maintenance and Deprecation

V1.0.4: Installation Guide

Installation of Terraform Provider for Dell PowerMax

Installation from public repository

Installation from source code

Usage

SSL Certificate Verification

V1.0.4: Release Notes

Terraform Provider for Dell PowerMax

Release Notes 1.0.4

Content

Revision history

Product Description

New features & enhancement

Limitations

Distribution

Documentation