PowerFlex appliance uses
PowerFlex, which uses the local disks of existing
PowerFlex nodes to create a storage pool. It is designed to scale to thousands of
PowerFlex nodes.
The integrated scalable network architecture is available with a choice of the following:
Hardware consisting of Cisco Nexus switches,
Dell PowerSwitch switches, or customer switches
Bandwidth depending on the customer needs
Network configurations
Trunk
Channel-group
Channel-group with LACP
Complete flexibility in designing the converged system with the following options:
PowerFlex hyperconverged nodes
PowerFlex storage-only nodes
PowerFlex compute-only nodes
Supports 10 GbE, 25 GbE or 100 GbE ports for backend connectivity
Supports native asynchronous replication between sites
PowerFlex nodes supports SSD and NVMe drive technologies
Improved node maintenance using protected maintenance mode (PMM)
Supports self-encrypting drives (SEDs) enabled by Dell CloudLink
Supports horizontal scaling by adding
PowerFlex nodes to extend storage or compute capacity
Secure and scalable storage using
PowerFlex
Seamlessly increase storage capacity or performance with horizontal node scaling
Optional data compression feature that improves storage efficiency
Optional Data at Rest Encryption (D@RE) feature provides data security using CloudLink as a software encryption layer, or as a key manager for self-encrypting drives
End-to-end lifecycle management with
PowerFlex Manager
For the
PowerFlex management controller 2.0, an optional three-node
PowerFlex management controller supporting VMware ESXi and
PowerFlex is available for shared storage layer, providing HA for the VM workloads on the
PowerFlex management controller. The PowerFlex management nodes are based on PowerFlex R650 nodes and H755 RAID controller.
Supports Fibre Channel HBAs on
PowerFlex nodes to connect to external storage arrays (outside the
PowerFlex datapath) for migrating the data from external storage arrays to
PowerFlex
PowerFlex supports multi-subnet or multi-VLAN for all network types other than data, vSAN, and NSX overlay
PowerFlex supports multiple Cisco and Dell switch models with different firmware and operating system versions
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