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PowerFlex 4.0.1 software only deployment is performed using the PowerFlex Manager. In this mode, the customer installs the operating system, configures networking, and installs any pre-requisite packages ahead of time. The PowerFlex Manager supports software only deployment for AMD based compute nodes and uses the native operating system method to install the Power Flex software and its dependencies.
The following figure shows the PowerFlex Manager dashboard:
Figure 4. PowerFlex Manager dashboard
A single PowerFlex protection domain and a single storage pool are configured on PowerFlex. The following Figure 5 shows the PowerFlex storage pool topology consisting of four SDSs and ten SSD disks in each of the four SDS nodes in the PowerFlex system. The volumes are created from the storage pool and mapped to three AMD EPYC compute-only nodes where the Oracle 21c RAC database software is installed.