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The limits of traditional DR

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Install Elasticsearch and Kibana

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Test Failover of a MySQL pod

Autopilot Install and Setup

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1. Prepare your Portworx Cluster

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AWS gp3 volumes

Operate and troubleshoot IBM Cloud Drives

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Update Portworx file system dependencies

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How Portworx Volumes work with Docker

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Microsoft SQL Server

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Data protection and snapshots

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Google Cloud KMS

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Securing your Portworx system

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Secure your storage with a DaemonSet

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

Step 1: Enable security in Portworx

Step 2: StorageClass Setup

Example application

Customizing security setup

Use pxctl with security enabled

Multitenancy using namespaces

Step 1: Enable security in Portworx

Step 2: Generate multitenant tokens

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Filtering pxctl output with jq

Remove or replace a failed drive

Custom Resource Definitions

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FlashBlade and FlashArray env vars

Portworx Metrics for monitoring

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Cloud drive operations

This section provides instructions for setting up and upgrading various cloud drives.

AWS gp3 volumes

Operate IBM Cloud Drives

Last edited: Friday, Oct 28, 2022

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