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...
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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...
Continue reading...You mean there’s a better way?
Until recently, managing your storage and infrastructure was often a lot like this. Inefficient, messy and downright painful. These are some of the examples of what was considered normal for...
Continue reading...MDM CLI logins for the lazy admin
Ever gone to login to your MDM SCLI and come up with this error?: Error: Failed to connect to MDM 127.0.0.1:6611 Normally in this case, you can just use the...
Continue reading...What’s been happening in the world of VxFlex 2019?
Another year down, and another year of incredible things to come. 2019 was an excellent year – but first a quick recap of what VxFlex brings to the market in...
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