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…
Running PowerFlex Manager on KVM
Anyone that has installed PowerFlex Manager into a PowerFlex rack or appliance environment will be aware that it is supplied in an OVA format and is intended to be used…
Managing PowerFlex Using vSphere vCenter
By Simon Stevens, PowerFlex Engineering Technologist, EMEA. August 2021. One of the topics that customers and colleagues regularly reach out to me for assistance with is the topic of managing…
Hi Dipak, For PowerFlex rack, most operations are handled through PowerFlex Manager - however you can also use the Dell…
When a Plugin for PwerFlex Rack will be available?
Can we club this grafana deployment to help us show K8s cluster pod stats too ?
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