Pre-configured and validated for fast, easy deployment, the PowerFlex appliance offers a turnkey experience in flexible form factors. Customers benefit from massive scalability potential without having to compromise performance and resilience.
PowerFlex empowers organizations to harness the power of software and embrace change while achieving consistently predictable outcomes for mission-critical workloads. PowerFlex is a modern foundation that delivers extreme flexibility, massive performance and linear scalability while simplifying complete infrastructure management and boosting IT agility. It’s the ideal foundation for organizations to modernize their mission-critical applications, consolidate heterogeneous workloads and build agile private and hybrid clouds.
PowerFlex offers extreme flexibility to meet the diverse and rapidly evolving needs of modern enterprises. It offers unprecedented choice for customers to architect their mission-critical IT environments.
Mix and match storage, compute and HCI nodes in a dynamic deployment, allowing users to scale storage and compute resources together or independently, one node at a time, as needs dictate.
The platform can also support a broad range of operating environments – bare metal operating systems, hypervisors as well as container platforms – simultaneously with a unified infrastructure platform and management. By allowing you to flexibly mix these architectures in a single deployment, PowerFlex enables you to deploy, scale, and evolve all your applications to meet your business objectives.
PowerFlex offers a robust toolset for simplifying IT operations for the entire infrastructure with PowerFlex Manager, which automates complex LCM and IT operations tasks, boosting IT productivity and infrastructure predictability. PowerFlex Manager also offers standards-based open APIs and custom Ansible modules, making it simple to integrate with third party tools and custom workflows.
Embrace Change
PowerFlex delivers transformational agility that enables organizations to rapidly respond to changing business needs. PowerFlex offers flexibility to mix and match storage, compute and HCI nodes in a dynamic deployment, allowing you to scale storage and compute resources together or independently, one node at a time, and as your needs dictate. The platform can also support a broad range of operating environments simultaneously – bare metal operating systems, hypervisors, and container platforms – with a unified underlying infrastructure platform and management. With this, you can support heterogeneous workloads with varying requirements on a flexible shared infrastructure platform and modernize your application architectures on your schedule.
Deliver Predictable Outcomes
PowerFlex is designed from the ground up to deliver consistent predictable outcomes at large scales for your most-demanding missioncritical environments. It is optimized for a wide range of validated workload solutions ranging from traditional relational databases and modern cloud-native NoSQL databases to throughput-intensive analytics workloads.
| Chassis | 1 RU |
| CPU technology | 3rd Gen AMD EPIC |
| CPU sockets | Two |
| CPU cores (total) | 16 - 128 |
| CPU frequency | 2.00 GHz - 3.70 GHz |
| RAM | 256 GB - 4TB |
| Maximum storage capacity (raw TB) | diskless |
| Drive bays | diskless |
| NVDIMM + RDIMM Support | No |
| Boot solution | 480 GB SATA M.2 (RAID1) “BOSS-S2” |
| Nvidia GPU Options | A2, T4 |
| PowerFlex network connectivity (standard 4x 25Gb) | Mellanox ConnectX-5 OCP Mellanox ConnectX-5 PCIe Mellanox ConnectX-6 PCIe |
| Management port | iDRAC 9 Out of Band Management |
| Min Nodes Per Cluster (Two-Layer Configuration) | 4 Storage Only nodes minimum (6 or more recommended) 1 to 3 Compute Only nodes (depending on host OS) |
| Min Nodes Per Cluster (HCI Configuration) | 4 HCI Nodes minimum (6 or more recommended) |
| Scaling Increments | 1 Node (HCI, Compute Only or Storage Only) |
| Management Switches | Cisco Nexus 3172TQ, Cisco Nexus 31108TC-V, Cisco Nexus 92348GC-X, Dell S4148T-ON |
| Aggregation or Spine Switches | Cisco Nexus 3132QX, Cisco Nexus 3164Q, Cisco Nexus 93180YC-EX, Cisco Nexus 93180YC-FX, Cisco Nexus 93240YC-FX2, Cisco Nexus N93360YC-FX2, Dell S5048F-ON, Dell S5248F-ON, Dell S5296F-ON5, Dell S5224F-ON‡ , Dell S4148F-ON |
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