By Simon Stevens, Dell Technologies Engineering Technologist. May 2023 Regular readers of my previous blogs will know that I focus my efforts on all things to do with Dell PowerFlex....
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A Roundup of the Latest PowerFlex Plugins
By Simon Stevens, PowerFlex Engineering Technologist, EMEA. March 2023. Regular readers will be aware of some of my previous blogs, where I have discussed the various plugins that are available...
Continue reading...PowerFlex Fault Sets – what are they and what can we do with them?
Before jumping into the details of Fault Sets, a quick recap on how PowerFlex works (in VERY simple terms). We take servers with locally attached disks, install the SDS (orange...
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...PowerFlex appliances… as Appliances!
By Simon Stevens, PowerFlex Engineering Technologist, EMEA. January 2023. Towards the start of autumn last year, Dell Technologies announced the “Dell Validated Platform for Red Hat Openshift”, a solution that...
Continue reading...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...
Continue reading...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...
Continue reading...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 system....
Continue reading...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...
Continue reading...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...
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