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   Portworx on Kubernetes
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   Install on cloud
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   GCP
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   GCP Marketplace
   AWS
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   Auto-Scaling Groups (ASG)
   Install using the Operator
   Install using the DaemonSet
   Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
   EKS using eksctl
   Install using the Operator
   Install using the Daemonset
   Install using the Operator
   Install using the DaemonSet
   Kubernetes Operations (KOPS)
   Install using the Operator
   Install using the DaemonSet
   AWS Marketplace
   Azure
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   Azure Container Service (ACS)
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   Prepare Your ACS Platform
   Install using the Operator
   Install using the DaemonSet
   Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
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   Prepare Your AKS Platform
   Install using the Operator
   Install using the DaemonSet
   PKS
   IBM Cloud
   Install on-premise
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   PKS
   Install using the Operator
   Install using the DaemonSet
   All other
   Install using the Operator
   Install using the DaemonSet
   Anthos
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   Air-gapped clusters
   Install on OpenShift
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   Portworx DaemonSet
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   1. Prepare your platform
   2. Deploy Portworx
   Portworx Operator
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   Install the Portworx Operator
   Deploy Portworx using the Operator
   Prepare to upgrade to OpenShift 4.3
   Storage operations
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   Create PVCs
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   Volume Placement Strategies
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   Create and use VolumePlacementStrategies
   VolumePlacementStrategy CRD reference
   Create sharedv4 PVCs
   Dynamic Provisioning of PVCs
   Control volume provisioning
   Create encrypted PVCs
   Create proxy volume PVCs
   Expand your storage pool size
   Resize PVCs
   Access via Non-Root Users
   Using Pre-provisioned Volumes
   Create shared PVCs
   Create PVCs using the ReadOnlyMany access mode
   Stateful applications operations
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   ApplicationRegistration
   Stateful Application CRD Reference
   Related Videos
   Create and use snapshots
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   On-demand snapshots
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   Local snapshots
   Cloud snapshots
   Scheduled snapshots
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   Configuring 3DSnaps
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   Run Hyper Converged
   Using Velero with Portworx
   Kubernetes Storage 101
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   Persistent volumes
   Stateful applications
   Hyperconvergence
   Snapshots and Backups
   Configure RBAC for Stork
   Portworx with CSI
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   Stateful applications
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   Cassandra
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   Install
   Scale up
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   Performance
   Discussion forum
   Deployment architectures
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   Single data center
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   DR and multi-DC HA
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   The limits of traditional DR
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   Harbor
   ActiveMQ
   RabbitMQ
   Elastic Search and Kibana
   Kafka with Zookeeper
   PostgreSQL
   ScyllaDB
   Solr
   Test Failover of a MySQL pod
   WordPress
   Operate and Maintain
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   Troubleshoot
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   Common errors
   Troubleshoot and Get Support
   Scale or Restrict
   Enter Maintenance Mode
   Operation control with systemd
   Unlink a Portworx Essentials cluster
   Uninstall
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   Uninstall using the Operator
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   Decommission a Node
   Upgrade
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   Upgrade using the Operator
   Upgrade using the Daemonset
   Use PX-Central on-premises
   Install
   Install PX-Central on-premises
   Install the license server component
   Install the monitoring service
   Install chart reference
   Add licenses using PX-Central on-prem
   Add clusters to PX-Central On-prem
   Monitor clusters
   Cloud snapshots
   Set up login redirects
   Upgrade
   Upgrade PX-Central on-premises
   Upgrade the license server component
   Upgrade the monitoring service
   Uninstall
   Uninstall PX-Central on-premises
   Uninstall the license server component
   Uninstall the monitoring service
   Cluster Topology awareness
   Running in Production
   Monitoring
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   Logging
   Monitor Portworx with Sysdig
   Prometheus and Grafana
   Using PX-Central
   Authorization
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   Enabling Authorization
   PVCs and Stork with Authorization
   Other Operations
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   Advanced installation parameters
   Certificates as Kubernetes Secrets
   Evacuating a Portworx node
   Disaster Recovery (DR)
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   Metro DR
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   1. Prepare your Portworx Cluster
   2. Pair Clusters
   3. Synchronize your Clusters
   4. Failover an application
   5. Failback an application
   6. Useful references
   Asynchronous DR
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   Autopilot
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   How to Use
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   Autopilot Install and Setup
   Working with Autopilot Rules
   Action approvals
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   Approvals using kubectl
   Approvals using GitOps and Github
   Operating and Troubleshooting
   Use cases
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   Automatically grow PVCs
   Expand all storage pools
   Expand storage pools by usage
   Rebalance storage pools
   Reference
   Migration
   Set up a Cluster Admin namespace
   Portworx on other orchestrators
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   DCOS
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   Install on DCOS
   Install on Kubernetes on DC/OS
   Install Portworx Local Universe
   Install on DCOS on Azure
   Application Installs
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   Cassandra
   CouchDB
   Elastic Search and Kibana
   Hadoop and HDFS on DCOS
   Kafka
   Zookeeper
   Operate and Maintain
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   Running Portworx in Production with DC/OS
   Upgrade
   Authorization with Portworx clusters
   Constraining Applications to Portworx nodes
   FAQ
   Scaling Stateful Applications
   Cleaning up frameworks
   Amazon ECS
   Docker
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   Install on Docker Standalone
   Install on Docker Swarm
   Jenkins on Swarm with Portworx
   Install on Kubernetes with Docker EE
   How To
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   How Portworx Volumes work with Docker
   Use Portworx with Swarm
   Stateful applications
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   Hadoop and HDFS
   Microsoft SQL Server
   Redis
   Docker Registry
   Rancher
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   Rancher 1.x
   Rancher 2.x
   Upgrading Portworx
   Nomad
   Operate and Maintain
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   Performance and Tuning
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   Performance Tuning
   FIO Performance
   SQL Performance
   NoSQL Performance
   Monitoring your cluster
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   Alerting with Portworx
   Grafana with Portworx
   Portworx Alerts
   Portworx integration with Prometheus
   Scaling
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   Adding storage to existing Portworx Cluster Nodes
   Scale Down Nodes
   Scaling out an existing Portworx Cluster
   Data Migration
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   Other cloud providers
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   DigitalOcean
   Rackspace
   Architecture References
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   Deployment architectures
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   Automatic disk provisioning
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   AWS
   GCP
   VMware
   Operations guide
   Securing your Portworx system
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   Deploying in Kubernetes
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   Secure your storage with a DaemonSet
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   Step 1: Generate shared secrets
   Step 2: Enable security in Portworx
   Step 3: Generate tokens
   Step 4: StorageClass Setup
   Example application
   Secure your storage with the Operator
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   Step 1: Enable security in Portworx
   Step 2: StorageClass Setup
   Example application
   Customizing security setup
   Multitenancy using namespaces
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   Step 1: Enable security in Portworx
   Step 2: Generate multitenant tokens
   Step 3: Set up the StorageClass
   Example application
   Concepts
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   Portworx Essentials
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   Role-Based Access Control
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   RBAC Overview
   Preparing To Enhance Security
   Enabling PX-Security
   Storage pool caching
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   Migration
   Class of Service
   Internal KVDB
   Shared Volumes
   Topology awareness
   Storage pools
   Reference
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   CLI
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   Create and Manage Volumes
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   Inspect Volumes
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   Basics
   Updating Volumes using pxctl
   Cluster Operations
   Cluster status
   Snapshots
   Group Snaps
   Snapshot Schedule Policies
   Cloud Credentials
   Cloud Snaps
   Manage secrets
   Cloud Drives (ASG)
   Cloud Migrations
   Storage Policy
   Encrypted Volumes
   License
   Service
   Volume Access
   Alerts
   Volume check
   Volume trim
   Authorization
   Dump and Upload cluster-wide secrets
   Self-signed Tokens
   RBAC Roles
   Filtering pxctl output with jq
   Remove or replace a failed drive
   Portworx instructional videos
   Developer SDK
   Portworx Metrics for monitoring
   REST API
   Custom Resource Definitions
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   StorageCluster
   Lighthouse
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   Update Volume
   Create Cloud Credentials
   Create Volume Snapshots
   Knowledge Base
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   Etcd for Portworx
   FAQs
   Portworx Licensing
   Supported Kernels
   Release Notes
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   Portworx Release Notes
   On-Prem Lighthouse Release Notes
   Autopilot Release Notes
   Secret Store management
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   IBM key management services
   
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   AWS KMS
   DC/OS Secrets
   Kubernetes Secrets
   Vault
   Google Cloud KMS
   Azure Key Vault
   Support
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   PX-Backup

Architecture References


  • Deployment architectures for Portworx

    Understand various deployment architectures for Portworx

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  • Automatic disk provisioning

    Understand how Portworx provisions disks automatically on various cloud platforms

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  • Securing your Portworx system

    Reference architectures to secure Portworx with RBAC support

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Last edited: Sunday, Dec 6, 2020
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