Skip to main content
Sign Out

Welcome to Dell

My Account
  • Place orders quickly and easily
  • View orders and track your shipping status
  • Enjoy members-only rewards and discounts
  • Create and access a list of your products
  • Manage your Dell EMC sites, products, and product-level contacts using Company Administration.
Sign In Create an Account Dell Financial Services Premier Sign In Partner Program Sign In
Contact Us

Your Dell.com Carts

Dell PowerFlex 4.5.x Technical Overview

PDF

Deployment options for each management offering

PowerFlex management platform is an integrated part of the PowerFlex system. PowerFlex management platform can be set up in multiple deployment options, regardless of the consumption model.

Depending on which consumption model you choose, you have different management options within the solution stack. PowerFlex Manager manages some aspects of the solution while other elements are customer-managed.

The supported deployment options available are as follows:
  • Co-resident: Production nodes and storage hosts management instances of Kubernetes and containers.
  • Bring your own hypervisor: Your hypervisor and shared storage hosts management VMs with Kubernetes.
  • Single management node: A few disks in RAID 5 for shared storage hosts management VMs with Kubernetes.
  • This option uses three or mode nodes that are configured to create a Management ESXi cluster running a management PowerFlex cluster which provides the shared storage datastore for management operations.
Table 1. Deployment option per offering
Supported offering Co-resident Bring your own hypervisor Single management node Three or more management nodes
PowerFlex software Yes Yes No No
PowerFlex custom node or VxFlex Ready Node Yes Yes Yes No
PowerFlex appliance No Yes

Not available by default. Contact Dell Technologies Support for more information.

Yes Yes
PowerFlex rack No Yes

Not available by default. Contact Dell Technologies Support for more information.

No Yes

Rate this content

Accurate
Useful
Easy to understand
Was this article helpful?
0/3000 characters
  Please provide ratings (1-5 stars).
  Please provide ratings (1-5 stars).
  Please provide ratings (1-5 stars).
  Please select whether the article was helpful or not.
  Comments cannot contain these special characters: <>()\