By Simon Stevens, Dell Technologies Engineering Technologist. May 2023 Regular readers of my previous blogs will know that I focus my efforts on all things to do with Dell PowerFlex....
Continue reading...A Roundup of the Latest PowerFlex Plugins
By Simon Stevens, PowerFlex Engineering Technologist, EMEA. March 2023. Regular readers will be aware of some of my previous blogs, where I have discussed the various plugins that are available...
Continue reading...PowerFlex Fault Sets – what are they and what can we do with them?
Before jumping into the details of Fault Sets, a quick recap on how PowerFlex works (in VERY simple terms). We take servers with locally attached disks, install the SDS (orange...
Continue reading...Ethernet/IP vs FC Fabrics for Storage
From time to time, we get the question on how can PowerFlex deliver the level of performance and reliability to match that of Fibre Channel fabric. It’s a great question,...
Continue reading...PowerFlex appliances… as Appliances!
By Simon Stevens, PowerFlex Engineering Technologist, EMEA. January 2023. Towards the start of autumn last year, Dell Technologies announced the “Dell Validated Platform for Red Hat Openshift”, a solution that...
Continue reading...Why PowerFlex for databases?
Why PowerFlex for VM’s? Why PowerFlex for containers? Why PowerFlex for anything? —- should really be the heading of this particular post. But yes, why? Obviously there are many factors...
Continue reading...Email alerting for PowerFlex
Following up from one of my earlier posts on SNMP traps, I often get asked on how to receive email alerts with PowerFlex? For folks that are on PowerFlex rack...
Continue reading...The value of engineered PowerFlex systems
Have you ever tried to drop a 2022 Ferrari engine into a Toyota Corolla? If so, you probably found out soon after that it wasn’t the best idea going around....
Continue reading...Life after vSphere Plug-in
Automating the deployment and upgrade of PowerFlex SDC for ESXi With the demise of the PowerFlex vSphere plug-in, deploying the SDC with storage-only deployment models can be challenging. Late last...
Continue reading...Latest PowerFlex Ecosystem Updates
By Simon Stevens, PowerFlex Engineering Technologist, EMEA. December 2021. The past year has seen a huge increase in the amount of ecosystem integrations that have been announced for PowerFlex. Our...
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