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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
PowerFlex 3.6 – Even Better Replication!
In which we discuss how the new features added into Dell EMC PowerFlex 3.6 give customers better outcomes, including more control of their Replication Consistency Groups. A lot can happen…
PowerFlex 3.6 – Behold! Even Better Network Resiliency!!
By Simon Stevens, PowerFlex Engineering Technologist, EMEA. June 2021. In which we discuss how two new features introduced with Dell EMC PowerFlex 3.6 Give Customers Improved Network Resiliency. Nearly every…
PowerFlex – Why your next system should be All-Flash
Flash! Ahahhhhhh – Saviour of the universe! Recently I’ve been working with many customers and account teams who have been making the transition from HDD or Hybrid configurations to All-Flash,…
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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 ?
[…] 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…