Category: PowerFlex
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Introducing PowerFlex File Services 4.0 – Part 5 – Data Protection Overview
Following on from part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4, we covered PowerFlex SDNAS System Features and took a deeper look (and walkthrough) of supported NAS protocols as well file system extension / shrinkage and security. This post will cover the final key feature of PowerFlex that is data…
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Introducing PowerFlex File Services 4.0 – Part 4
Following on from part 1, part 2 and part 3 where we covered PowerFlex SDNAS System Features and took a deeper look (and walkthrough) of supported NAS protocols and file system extension/shrinkage. This post will cover key PowerFlex security features such as, D@re, Secure NFS, Directory and Naming services integration and…
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Introducing PowerFlex File Services 4.0 – Part 3
File Systems Extension/Shrinkage Following on from part 1 and part 2 where we covered PowerFlex SDNAS System Features and took a deeper look (and walkthrough) of support NAS protocols. This post will cover key PowerFlex SDNas File System features such as, File System Expansion, Quotas and Data Efficiency. File system…
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Introducing PowerFlex File Services 4.0 – Part 2
NAS Protocols Following on from my first post which you can read here Most vendors provide similar NAS protocols as PowerFlex File, such as SMB and NFS. However, the support for other protocols, such as Object and HDFS, may vary. Also, the implementation and performance of each protocol can differ…
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Introducing PowerFlex File Services 4.0 – Part 1
Background File services have been in existence since the early days of computing, with the first file service introduced in the 1960s, when computers were still in their infancy. Initially, file services were mainly used for storing and managing files on computers, but they were not suitable for real-time processing…
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VxRail & PowerFlex – When choose one over the other?
The breadth of the Dell Technologies Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) portfolio offers choice to customers, but also sometimes causes the question of when to choose one technology over the other. In this blog post I want to take a deeper look into VxRail and PowerFlex to come up with some…
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Amazon brings you anywhere, EKS Anywhere, with Dell Technologies
With my most recent post, my aim is to bring some insight into our recent partnerships with Amazon that sees Amazon’s Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS) experience being brought from the public cloud, right into your data centre, with Dell Technologies infrastructure. Check it out at the following link:…
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PowerFlex Cloud Storage in AWS – a slice of Dell’s Project Alpine story
Have existing pre-commits with AWS but want to consume Dell storage? Look no further – with PowerFlex Cloud Storage, you can quickly and easily deploy a PowerFlex cluster in the AWS public cloud. Read more about PowerFlex Cloud Storage in AWS at my blog: https://cloudunanutshell.blogspot.com/2022/11/powerflex-cloud-storage-in-aws-slice-of.html
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PowerFlex FTW Tales From the Field – The Service Catalog
Tales From the Field – September ‘21 Imagine working in an environment so incredibly complex that service providers won’t even talk to you about outsourcing the support of it. This was a conversation we had with a customer a few years ago. This specific customer had a literal museum of…
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PowerFlex FTW: Tales From the Field – August ‘21
“The Fraud Detection System” We were approached by an existing Vblock customer in spring of 2017. They were looking for a new hyperconverged system to support their new online fraud detection system, which was imperative to their business since they ingested millions of feeds per day from all over the…
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