Dell EMC PowerFlex Manager API Guide

Overview

PowerFlex Manager provides IT operations management for PowerFlex rack. It increases efficiency by reducing time-consuming manual tasks that are required to manage PowerFlex rack and PowerFlex appliance operations. Using PowerFlex Manager, you can deploy and manage new and preexisting system environments.

Two essential concepts in PowerFlex Manager are the ServiceTemplate model and the Deployment model. A ServiceTemplate model describes a blueprint for provisioning and configuring a collection of devices as a named unit, also known as a service. The Deployment model uses a ServiceTemplate model to physically realize what service the service template describes. While the names deployment and service are synonymous, PowerFlex Manager uses the term service while the REST API uses the term Deployment.

PowerFlex Manager is distributed as a virtual appliance running a collection of interacting web applications that communicate through the REST interfaces. An extra web application, the PowerFlex Manager UI, also resides on the virtual appliance, providing a full browser-based GUI access to PowerFlex Manager. This PowerFlex Manager UI interacts with PowerFlex Manager through the same REST interfaces that are described in this guide.

If you have a licensed version of PowerFlex Manager, PowerFlex Manager can be integrated with any custom UI or accessed through programs for an enhanced automation experience.