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Dell PowerFlex Appliance with PowerFlex 4.x Architecture Overview

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System hardware

System hardware consists of multiple sections on how PowerFlex nodes are used.

There are four types of PowerFlex nodes: storage providing nodes, storage consuming nodes, management nodes and VMware NSX Edge nodes. PowerFlex hyperconverged nodes provide storage and consume storage. The table below shows the combinations of provision and consumption allowed by PowerFlex appliance.

Table 1. Combinations of provision and consumption allowed by PowerFlex applianceThe following table provides the combinations of provision and consumption allowed by PowerFlex appliance.
PowerFlex storage provided by ...
PowerFlex storage consumed by... - Hyperconverged Hyperconverged and storage only Storage-only
Compute-only N/A Hybrid Two-layer
Hyperconverged and compute-only Hybrid Hybrid Hybrid
Hyperconverged Hyperconverged Hybrid N/A
External N/A N/A Storage only

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