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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
Revisiting PowerFlex REST API Calls
By Simon Stevens, PowerFlex Engineering Technologist, EMEA. November 2021. In a previous blog, https://powerflex.me/2021/05/13/a-beginners-guide-to-rest-api-calls-with-powerflex/ , I presented a “beginners guide” on how to issue RESTful API calls to a PowerFlex…
Whats New With The PowerFlex CY21 Q4 Launch?
By Simon Stevens, PowerFlex Engineering Technologist, EMEA. October 2021. We at Dell EMC never rest on our laurels, as we are always constantly trying to evolve and improve our products…
PowerFlex Manager 3.7 and LDAPS / Active Directory integration
My colleague Matt Hobbs and I have recently been working on getting this setup working, so without any further ado, here’s what we have learned: Adding LDAP/Active Directory Authentication to…
Plentiful PowerFlex Plug-ins!
By Simon Stevens, PowerFlex Engineering Technologist, EMEA. September 2021. In my last blog post (which you can find here: https://powerflex.me/2021/08/24/managing-powerflex-using-vsphere-vcenter/ ) I discussed Dell EMC Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI), which…
Installing the PowerFlex SDC into Rocky Linux – can it be done?
The announcement from Red Hat last December that it would be “shifting focus from CentOS” caused quite a stir amongst the open source community, particularly those using CentOS widely. One…
Is there any method to check "consumed capaity" of volume? there is no info in query volume and cant find…
Hello, The link is not working. Does the process work on 3.6 too? https://1drv.ms/f/s!AmWHx24GTF-cuAl5Y8hESDk5YEQm
Hi Dipak, I've been told from others that it still works with version 4.0. The gateway / REST API is…
Can we add PFMP 4.0 to this as there is no Gateway anymore?
[…] up from one of my earlier posts on SNMP traps, I often get asked on how to receive email…