Dell Technologies – PowerFlex

V1.9.0: ReadMe

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Terraform Provider for Dell Technologies PowerFlex

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

The Terraform Provider can be used to manage SDCs, volumes, snapshots, snapshot-policies, storage pools, SDSs, protection domains, devices, users, MDM cluster, fault sets, firmware repository, peer systems, replication consistency groups, replication pairs, NVMe hosts and NVMe targets.

Support

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

License

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

Prerequisites

Terraform Provider	PowerFlex/VxFlex OS Version	OS	Terraform	Golang
v1.9.0	4.5 4.6 4.6.1 (Appliance) 5.0 5.1 (Gen2)	ubuntu22.04 rhel9.x	1.9.x 1.10.x	1.26.x

List of DataSources in Terraform Provider for Dell PowerFlex

Storage Management

Data Protection

Host and Device

Gen2 (PowerFlex 5.x)

Resource Group Management

Firmware and OS Management

Compliance and Templates

List of Resources in Terraform Provider for Dell PowerFlex

Cluster and System

Storage Management

Data Protection

Host and Device

Gen2 (PowerFlex 5.x)

Resource Group Management

Firmware and OS Management

User Management

User

List of Modules in Terraform Provider for Dell PowerFlex

Installation and execution of Terraform Provider for Dell PowerFlex

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

Releasing, Maintenance and Deprecation

Terraform Provider for Dell Technnologies PowerFlex 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.

Documentation

For more detailed information, please refer to Dell Terraform Providers Documentation.

Terraform PowerFlex Modules

Check the following links for the terraform-modules repository and registry.

V1.9.0: Product Guide

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V1.9.0: Release Notes

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Terraform Provider for Dell PowerFlex

Release Notes 1.9.0

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

Terraform Provider for Dell PowerFlex Release Notes 1.9.0

Revision History

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

Revision	Date	History
01	Jan 2023	Release of Terraform Provider for Dell PowerFlex 1.0.0
02	May 2023	Release of Terraform Provider for Dell PowerFlex 1.0.1
03	June 2023	Release of Terraform Provider for Dell PowerFlex 1.1.0
04	September 2023	Release of Terraform Provider for Dell PowerFlex 1.2.0
05	Dec 2023	Release of Terraform Provider for Dell PowerFlex 1.3.0
06	March 2024	Release of Terraform Provider for Dell PowerFlex 1.4.0
07	Jun 2024	Release of Terraform Provider for Dell PowerFlex 1.5.0
08	Aug 2024	Release of Terraform Provider for Dell PowerFlex 1.6.0
09	Dec 2024	Release of Terraform Provider for Dell PowerFlex 1.7.0
10	March 2026	Release of Terraform Provider for Dell PowerFlex 1.8.0
11	September 2026	Current Release of Terraform Provider for Dell PowerFlex 1.9.0

Product Description

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

New Features & Enhancements

Added Support for PowerFlex Gen2 (5.x) architecture.

Resources

Storage Node - Create, Read, Update, Delete, Import (Gen2)
Device Group - Create, Read, Update, Delete, Import (Gen2)
Device Action - Create, Read (Gen2)
Storage Pool Erasure Coding - Create, Read, Update, Delete (Gen2)
Volume Action - Create, Read (Gen2)

Data Sources

Storage Node Datasource (Gen2)
Device Group Datasource (Gen2)

Enhancements

Added support for configuring the PowerFlex provider using environment variables.
Added Gen2 5.x attributes (storage_node_id, device_group_id, erasure_coding_policy, protection_scheme, compression_method) to the Device and Storage Pool resources, with backward compatible deprecation of sds_id/sds_name.
Added IP address validation for MDM IP list values.
Added a migration guide for moving from PowerFlex 4.x to 5.x.
Marked credential fields as sensitive across PowerFlex resource and data source schemas.
Replaced insecure SSH host key handling with known_hosts based validation.
Fixed powerflex_template and powerflex_node data sources to fall back to Bearer authentication on PFMP 5.1.
Fixed an issue where volumes not managed by Terraform were incorrectly unmapped from the SDC during a terraform destroy of the SDC Volume Mapping resource.

Removal

Deprecations

sds_id and sds_name on the Device resource are deprecated in favor of storage_node_id and device_group_id for PowerFlex 5.x (Gen2) systems.

Known Issues

Limitations

NVMe over TCP is supported in PowerFlex 4.0 and later versions, therefore powerflex_nvme_host, powerflex_nvme_target and SDT deployment using Cluster resource are not supported in PowerFlex 3.x.
Due to certain limitations, updating the NVMe host in PowerFlex versions earlier than 4.6 is not supported.
Gen2 resources and data sources (powerflex_storage_node, powerflex_device_group, powerflex_device_action, powerflex_storage_pool_erasure_coding, powerflex_volume_action) require PowerFlex 5.x and are not supported on earlier PowerFlex versions.

Distribution

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

Documentation

Readme

Product Guide

Dell Technologies – PowerFlex

V1.9.0: ReadMe

Terraform Provider for Dell Technologies PowerFlex

Table of contents

Support

License

Prerequisites

List of DataSources in Terraform Provider for Dell PowerFlex

Storage Management

Data Protection

Host and Device

Gen2 (PowerFlex 5.x)

Resource Group Management

Firmware and OS Management

Compliance and Templates

List of Resources in Terraform Provider for Dell PowerFlex

Cluster and System

Storage Management

Data Protection

Host and Device

Gen2 (PowerFlex 5.x)

Resource Group Management

Firmware and OS Management

User Management

List of Modules in Terraform Provider for Dell PowerFlex

Installation and execution of Terraform Provider for Dell PowerFlex

Releasing, Maintenance and Deprecation

Documentation

Terraform PowerFlex Modules

V1.9.0: Product Guide

V1.9.0: Release Notes

Terraform Provider for Dell PowerFlex

Release Notes 1.9.0

Contents

Revision History

Product Description

New Features & Enhancements

Resources

Data Sources

Enhancements

Removal

Deprecations

Known Issues

Limitations

Distribution

Documentation