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...
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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...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...
Continue reading...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...
Continue reading...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,...
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...
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...
Continue reading...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...
Continue reading...The top 5 benefits you get with PowerFlex performance
Quite often when people see the the unbelievable storage performance that can be extracted out of commodity x86 servers with SSD’s when combined with PowerFlex software — they literally laugh...
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