Dell PowerFlex Appliance with PowerFlex 4.x Architecture Overview

Introduction

The PowerFlex Appliance with PowerFlex 4.x Architecture Overview describes the high-level architecture and key hardware and software components of PowerFlex appliance.

The target audience for this document includes customers, sales engineers, field consultants, and advanced services specialists who want to deploy a high-performance, scalable, and flexible infrastructure using PowerFlex appliance.

PowerFlex appliance architecture is based on Dell PowerEdge servers, Cisco Nexus switches, Dell PowerSwitch switches or customer provided switches, and PowerFlex software defined storage. PowerFlex Manager provides the management and orchestration functionality for PowerFlex appliance. PowerFlex appliance is an engineered system with optional full network automation (when using supported Cisco Nexus switches or Dell PowerSwitch switches) or partial network automation (when using customer provided switches). PowerFlex appliance serves as highly scalable and high performance hyperconverged infrastructure building block for modern and cloud native data center workloads.

For additional PowerFlex appliance documentation, go to PowerFlex appliance technical documentation.