Dell PowerFlex Appliance with PowerFlex 4.x Architecture Overview

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PowerFlex hyperconverged deployment

A PowerFlex appliance hyperconverged deployment has a base configuration that is a minimum set of hyperconverged components and fixed network resources.

Within the base configuration, you can customize the following hardware aspects:

Table 1. Customizable hardware aspectsThe following table describes the customizable hardware aspects available.
Hardware	Minimum set
Compute and storage	A minimum of four PowerFlex hyperconverged nodes are required; however, six is the recommended minimum. PowerFlex hyperconverged nodes provide both storage and compute resources to the system. If storage compression is active, two SDPM components (for PowerFlex R660 or PowerFlex R760) or a minimum of two NVDIMM components (for PowerFlex R650 or PowerFlex R750) per PowerFlex node are required. A recommendation is made according to the system sizing calculation.
Network	One customer-provided management switch One pair of access or leaf switches (Dell PowerSwitch switches or customer-provided switches) A pair of border-leaf switches NOTE:Only in a leaf-spine configuration.
Management	Standalone or multi-node PowerFlex management controller with high availability or customer provided management infrastructure.