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PowerFlex is a software-defined infrastructure that is designed to reduce the operational and infrastructure complexity, empowering organizations to move faster by delivering flexibility, elasticity, and simplicity with predictable performance and resiliency at scale. The PowerFlex family provides a foundation that combines compute and high-performance storage resources in a managed, unified fabric. PowerFlex is ideal for high performance applications and databases, building an agile private cloud, or consolidating resources in heterogeneous environments.
PowerFlex Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver enables seamless allocation of storage for container pods through Kubernetes persistent volume claim (PVC) APIs. PowerFlex can scale seamlessly, combined with Google Distributed Cloud Virtual and PowerFlex CSI driver to provide customers with a hybrid-cloud environment that is highly resilient, highly scalable, and highly performant.
Google has announced Google Distributed Cloud (GDC), a portfolio of hardware, software, and services. Google Distributed Cloud Virtual (GDC Virtual) is a software and services-only solution that unifies on-premises deployments (both virtual with VMware vSphere and bare metal). GDC Virtual is an integrated platform that lets you modernize how you develop, secure, and operate hybrid cloud and multicloud environments across the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and on-premises infrastructure.
Dell PowerProtect Data Manager enables users to protect, manage, and recover data in on-premises, virtualized, or cloud deployments. The PowerProtect Data Manager platform provides centralized governance that helps mitigate risk and assures compliance of SLAs and SLOs through protection workflows. PowerProtect Data Manager enables the protection of traditional workloads including Oracle, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL server, SAP HANA, file systems and Kubernetes containers and virtual environments.
PowerProtect Data Manager enhances the protection by sending the data directly to the Dell PowerProtect DD series appliance to gain benefits from unmatched efficiency, deduplication, performance, and scalability.
Together, GDC Virtual, PowerFlex software defined storage, PowerProtect Data Manager and the PowerProtect DD series appliance, provide a powerful platform for on-premises and hybrid-cloud applications deployment and data protection. This paper describes and demonstrates how these products work together to deploy and protect PostgreSQL databases.