Dell PowerFlex 4.6.x Technical Overview

Management capabilities

PowerFlex Manager provides the unified interface and full lifecycle mode services. Role-based and scope-based access control enables common PowerAPIs to improve ecosystem and customer integration of the PowerFlex storage solution.

PowerFlex provides one tool for all consumption models.

• PowerFlex Manager (UX, API, CLI)
  • Unified dashboard
  • REST API for PowerFlex rack, PowerFlex appliance, and PowerFlex software
  • PowerFlex Block and PowerFlex file services
  • SDC and NVMe over TCP hosts

• Unified services:
  • Security
  • Single sign-on (SSO) and role-based access control (RBAC)
  • Deployment and LCM
  • Events, alerts, and reporting
  • Logging and metrics collection
  • SNMP, Secure Remote Services, SMTP, CloudIQ

• Unified RBAC and user management
  • No separate users or LDAP configuration
  • Single set of roles
  • Meta data manager (data-path) does not maintain RBAC from PowerFlex 4.0.

• Single WebUI
• Single REST endpoint for all APIs: Legacy and modern, ISG-standard PowerAPI
  NOTE:For login information, see the PowerFlex 4.6.x API documentation, at Dell Technologies Developer.
• Events (log) and alerts (state) including meta data manager (MDM) events
• Resilient management stack