Dell PowerFlex Appliance with PowerFlex 4.x Architecture Overview
Management control plane
The
PowerFlex appliance management control plane consists of :
- VMware ESXi to deliver high availability for VMs
- PowerFlex management controller - PowerEdge server with custom configuration
One of the following:
PowerFlex storage data server for cluster storage high availability
Single PowerFlex management controller with RAID for data protection
Customer provided management controller or controller nodes
- PowerFlex management platform -The PowerFlex management platform is the software management and orchestration stack for PowerFlex. It is implemented on the PowerFlex management controller. It includes the container environment running on physical or virtual Linux instances, and containers that provide services.
- PowerFlex Manager - provides IT operations management for PowerFlex appliance. It increases efficiency by reducing time-consuming manual tasks that are required to manage system operations. Use PowerFlex Manager to deploy and manage new and existing PowerFlex appliance environments.
PowerFlex Manager discovers, deploys, and operates the PowerFlex appliance by using resources, templates, and resource groups.
For more information on key PowerFlex Manager terminology, see Dell PowerFlex Appliance and PowerFlex Rack with PowerFlex 4.x Glossary.
PowerFlex Manager offers the following features:
- Resource discovery, inventory, and management
- Simplified and efficient day-to-day operations
- Management of block and file storage objects
- Creating template-based configurations for consistent and secure deployment of large numbers of compute, storage and network resources
- Built-in role-based authorization and identity management
- Comprehensive health alerting, monitoring, reporting and dashboards
- End-to-end automated life cycle management
- Life-cycle compliance management and reporting
For an in-depth overview of PowerFlex Manager, see the Dell PowerFlex Technical Overview.
- VMware vCenter - Is used for orchestrations, management, monitoring and reporting of virtual compute resources.
- Secure connect gateway - Is an enterprise monitoring technology that is delivered as an appliance and a stand-alone application. It monitors your devices and proactively detects hardware issues that may occur.
- Policy manager - policy manager is a device access management technology that is delivered as a virtual appliance.
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