Why PowerFlex for VM’s? Why PowerFlex for containers? Why PowerFlex for anything? —- should really be the heading of this particular post. But yes, why? Obviously there are many factors…
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The value of engineered PowerFlex systems
Have you ever tried to drop a 2022 Ferrari engine into a Toyota Corolla? If so, you probably found out soon after that it wasn’t the best idea going around.…
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 system.…
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…
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…
A Beginners Guide to REST API Calls With PowerFlex
I recently received a request from the Account Team of one of our major global OEM PowerFlex customers. They were looking for help with integrating PowerFlex into the bespoke Management…
Kubernetes with the PowerFlex CSI – a step by step guide
Pretty much every conversation I am having these days about PowerFlex at some point ends up on the subject of containers – Docker, Kubernetes, CSI drivers, etc. etc… Whilst I…
PowerFlex blogs
PowerFlex blogs are really starting to scale-out….
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…
Hi Nishith, If there is an API for a certain metric, then yes it's possible to have them queried and…
I saw something like - sdsState (Normal/RemovePending) - mdmConnectionState (Connected/Disconnected) - maintenanceState (NoMaintenance/SetMaintenanceInProgress/InMaintenance/ExitMaintenanceInProgress) https://developer.dell.com/apis/4008/versions/3.6/PowerFlex_3.6_RESTAPI.v1_149.json/paths/~1api~1instances~1Sds::%7Bid%7D/get This can help a great deal…
hi Matt. I was overwhelmed at first when I saw you called out my name in your Blog Post, Thank…
Hi Nishith - excellent question - I've made an unlisted blog post to hopefully address this for you: https://powerflex.me/2023/01/23/powerflex-grafana-sli-extension/
Hi Matt, the appliance works great, I would like to take it a step further and calculate SLI of my…