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…
Author: Matt Hobbs
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 in 2022.
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.…
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…
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…
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…
PowerFlex and OpenStack
PowerFlex / VxFlex / ScaleIO has a long and rich history with OpenStack – being a natural fit for a scale-out cloud compute architecture, it has been a mainstay of…
PowerFlex + Ansible + Terraform + Rancher & Kubernetes
My colleague Jonathan Asvestis has recently published a 3 part series on putting all of these great technologies together in the most simplest way I have seen to date. Do…
SNMP traps for PowerFlex
“Quick quick, write it down before you forget!” <– What I always tell myself when I’m in the middle of figuring something out. What you will need: PowerFlex Gateway Server…
Historical Reporting for your PowerFlex cluster with Grafana
Ever wished you could drill down back to any point in time on your PowerFlex / VxFlex / ScaleIO cluster? Then please read on! Using nothing but Open Source tools…
Hi Nishith, If there is an API for a certain metric, then yes it's possible to have them queried and…
I saw something like - sdsState (Normal/RemovePending) - mdmConnectionState (Connected/Disconnected) - maintenanceState (NoMaintenance/SetMaintenanceInProgress/InMaintenance/ExitMaintenanceInProgress) https://developer.dell.com/apis/4008/versions/3.6/PowerFlex_3.6_RESTAPI.v1_149.json/paths/~1api~1instances~1Sds::%7Bid%7D/get This can help a great deal…
hi Matt. I was overwhelmed at first when I saw you called out my name in your Blog Post, Thank…
Hi Nishith - excellent question - I've made an unlisted blog post to hopefully address this for you: https://powerflex.me/2023/01/23/powerflex-grafana-sli-extension/
Hi Matt, the appliance works great, I would like to take it a step further and calculate SLI of my…