Dell PowerFlex Appliance with PowerFlex 3.x Architecture Overview

Introduction

This document describes the high-level design of the PowerFlex appliance. It also describes the hardware and software components in each PowerFlex appliance.

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

PowerFlex appliance architecture is based on Dell PowerEdge R650, R750, R6525, R7525, R640, R740xd, and R840 servers.

PowerFlex Manager provides the management and orchestration functionality for a PowerFlex appliance.

The dvswitch names are for example only and may not match the configured system. Do not change these names or a data unavailable or data lost event may occur.

Dell PowerFlex appliance was previously known as Dell VxFlex appliance. Similarly, Dell PowerFlex Manager was previously known as Dell VxFlex Manager, and Dell PowerFlex was previously known as Dell VxFlex OS. References in the documentation will be updated over time.

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