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As organizations transform to meet the rapidly changing workload demands and ever evolving requirements, they need to consider several critical factors when deciding on deployment options for their workloads. These factors include performance, flexibility, reliability, availability, and scaling.
PostgreSQL and PowerFlex benefit from each other in many ways. PowerFlex can provide all the performance needs of the databases while being able to scale and grow with demand. PowerFlex is a software-defined infrastructure. It enables organizations the flexibility to deploy database workloads on-premises.
On-premises deployments offer greater control and customization options, allowing organizations to fine-tune hardware configurations and optimize performance according to specific workload requirements. By using PowerFlex capabilities, organizations can optimize their infrastructure choices and adapt to their evolving needs.
PowerFlex fulfills PostgreSQL performance requirements and enables organizations to optimize their infrastructure choices. Ensuring data protection is equally crucial.
Data protection is vital in scenarios such as database corruption, accidental deletions, or cyberattacks. Using PowerFlex native snapshots, in coordination with the database APIs, users can create or restore database backup copies in seconds, regardless of the size of the database. Additionally, using PowerFlex native snapshot consistency, users can create ad-hoc or policy-based consistent database copies that can be restored or mounted for test, development, reporting, data analysis, or similar purposes.
This white paper also describes performance best practices for deploying PostgreSQL databases on PowerFlex and it demonstrates the utilization of Dell PowerFlex native snapshot capabilities for streamlined database backup and recovery processes.