In a galaxy far, far away, networking with PowerFlex (ScaleIO days) was simple, there were 3 switches (Management, Access #1, Access #2). And on the nodes it had: Very easy,...
Continue reading...PowerFlex 4.x and LDAP / LDAPS configuration
Hi! If you’re like me, getting LDAP to work is akin to dabbling in the dark arts and always fills me with a certain degree of nervous terror. Fortunately, through...
Continue reading...An Introduction to PowerFlex 4.x RestAPI Calls
By Simon Stevens, PowerFlex Engineering Technologist, EMEA. September 2024. When trying to come up with blog content that customers will find both interesting and useful, it can be difficult to...
Continue reading...SUSECON24 – Return of the Flex!
By Simon Stevens, Dell PowerFlex Engineering Technologist, 27th June 2024. Regular readers of this blog with long memories might be having feelings of deja-vu upon reading the title of this...
Continue reading...Some Thoughts on the Nutanix May 24 .NEXT Dell/PowerFlex Announcements
By Simon Stevens, PowerFlex Engineering Technologist, EMEA May 2024. As an employee of Dell Technologies, part of my remit is to understand what is happening outside the cozy confines of...
Continue reading...‘May’ I Introduce You To Dell PowerFlex 4.6?
By Simon Stevens, PowerFlex Engineering Technologist, EMEA May 2024. I am currently writing this blog during the month of May. If Christmas Carols were allowed to be heard on the...
Continue reading...A New Year Brings More PowerFlex Ecosystem Updates
By Simon Stevens, PowerFlex Engineering Technologist, EMEA. January 2024. I have previously posted several blogs discussing various ecosystem plug-ins that Dell provide for PowerFlex, the most recent example being this...
Continue reading...Deploying PowerFlex 4.x with co-resident management on three nodes
This post came about after speaking to one of our Telco customers here in Europe. The customer is a long-term user of ScaleIO/VxFlexOS/PowerFlex and as well as having some large...
Continue reading...APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift
Introduction Last week, Thursday 26th October 2023 to be precise, Dell announced the availability of the APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift – which I will often refer to...
Continue reading...PowerFlex & The Implications of Using Fault Sets on Rebuilds
By Simon Stevens, Dell PowerFlex Engineering Technologist, July 2023. Part of my day-to-day role is to help people learn about the product that I have lived and breathed for the...
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