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...
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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,...
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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...Why PowerFlex for databases?
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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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...
Continue reading...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....
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...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...
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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...
Continue reading...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...
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