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Dell PowerFlex 4.5.x Technical Overview

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Dell APEX Block Storage

Dell APEX Block Storage for public cloud is a deployment of Dell PowerFlex, software-defined block storage innovation, in the public cloud. APEX Block Storage is available for both AWS and Microsoft Azure allowing you to experience the same benefits of enterprise-class storage services in the cloud as with on-premises. It provides higher performance, larger volume sizes, and improved resilience than what is currently available on the public cloud.

Table 1. Capabilities and benefitsThis table describes the capabilities and benefits of cloud support.
Capability Benefit or Value
Unique multi-availability zone durability
  • Enhanced, space efficient data protection through the aggregation of all instances across availability zones for volume provisioning.
  • Enables high resilience across availability zones by protecting the data during availability zone failure, without replication of data (space and IOPs).
Extreme performance for mission-critical workloads running in the cloud Meets and exceeds SLAs with extreme performance (high throughput and low latency) for workloads such as databases and analytics.
Scalable, flexible, and resilient Meets stringent SLAs and run workloads with confidence and assurance with near linearly scalable performance as workload demand increases.
Data mobility Seamless data mobility with the ability to easily move data from on-premises to the cloud or across regions within the cloud as workloads demand increases.
Self-healing architecture with rapid rebuild Ensure high availability and service availability under failure conditions with fast reprotection and rebuild.
Robust ecosystem of automation tools and frameworks (CSM/CSI, Ansible, REST APIs, DDVE, CloudLink, CloudIQ) Optimal usage and performance of cloud-based block storage with easy to deploy, expand, monitor, and manage capabilities.
NOTE: The following features that are supported by PowerFlex are NOT supported with the APEX Block Storage in the public cloud: compression, fine granularity storage pools in the public cloud, SDNAS or PowerFlex file services, and NVMe TCP.

APEX Block Storage for AWS

Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS empowers enterprises to run diverse workloads in the public cloud while ensuring extreme performance, scalability, and a simplified cloud experience. APEX Block Storage can be deployed in two configurations by using Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes, or native NVMe SSD drives attached to EC2 instances (EC2 Instance Store). Dell APEX Block Storage also provides the proven enterprise data services, such as thin provisioning, snapshots, and asynchronous replication, required to run demanding block-based workloads in the public cloud. Dell APEX Block Storage native asynchronous replication enables data mobility between on-premises and the cloud or across regions in the cloud, for example, AWS East to AWS West.

APEX Block Storage for Microsoft Azure

Now available Dell APEX Block Storage for Public Cloud in Microsoft Azure. APEX Block Storage can be deployed in two configurations using Azure Managed Disks or virtual machines with attached NVMe SSDs based on the use case. Dell APEX Block Storage also provides the proven enterprise data services, such as thin provisioning, snapshots, and asynchronous replication, required to run demanding block-based workloads in the public cloud. Dell APEX Block Storage native asynchronous replication enables data mobility between on-premises and the cloud or across regions in the cloud.

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