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...
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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...
Continue reading...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...
Continue reading...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...
Continue reading...Deploying Red Hat Openshift on bare metal nodes with the PowerFlex CSI driver
When I created the blog detailing the step by step process of deploying Kubernetes with PowerFlex (https://powerflex.me/2021/05/13/kubernetes-with-the-powerflex-csi-a-step-by-step-guide) little did I know that a few weeks later, my colleagues in our...
Continue reading...Oracle Linux KVM with PowerFlex
Earlier this month (June 2021) PowerFlex 3.6 was announced to the world, it includes a number of great enhancements, one particularly feature that has been added is support for Oracle...
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 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...
Continue reading...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...
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