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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Email alerting for PowerFlex
Following up from one of my earlier posts on SNMP traps, I often get asked on how to receive email alerts with PowerFlex? For folks that are on PowerFlex rack…
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.…
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…
PowerFlex Manager 3.7 and LDAPS / Active Directory integration
My colleague Matt Hobbs and I have recently been working on getting this setup working, so without any further ado, here’s what we have learned: Adding LDAP/Active Directory Authentication to…
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…
Installing the PowerFlex SDC into Rocky Linux – can it be done?
The announcement from Red Hat last December that it would be “shifting focus from CentOS” caused quite a stir amongst the open source community, particularly those using CentOS widely. One…
Running PowerFlex Manager on KVM
Anyone that has installed PowerFlex Manager into a PowerFlex rack or appliance environment will be aware that it is supplied in an OVA format and is intended to be used…
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…
[…] up from one of my earlier posts on SNMP traps, I often get asked on how to receive email…
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…