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...Matt Hobbs
Personal Sustainability Engineer, ex-APJ PowerFlex Presales for Dell Technologies - High performance software defined storage. "Enterprise grade storage that can also do HCI". Australian, married, 2 boys, based out of Singapore since 2008 but now back in the land of Oz since 2022. We now have 5 chooks! (Chickens for the non-Aussies out there).
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...The best of times – behind the curtain of PowerFlex.me
It’s not often that I get to travel to the opposite side of the world for leisure, but when I do it’s a case of go big or go home,...
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...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...PowerFlex, Adobe Flash, VMware vCenter and 2021
The king is dead (Flash), long live the king! (HTML5) Flash was never the best technology, but it was the best tool we had at the time and many applications...
Continue reading...Grafana monitoring itself for PowerFlex
Lisa: Dad, don’t you see you’re abusing your power like all vigilantes? I mean, if you’re the police, who will police the police?Homer: I dunno. Coast Guard? Recently my Grafana...
Continue reading...PowerFlex Volume migrations for the lazy admin
Don’t you just hate it when you have hundreds of Volumes to move between your Storage Pools? But at the same time, massively enjoy it since you can do this...
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