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PowerFlex software-defined storage offers flexibility of deployment architecture to help best meet the specific deployment and architectural requirements. PowerFlex can be deployed in a two-layer (Independent), single-layer (Hyperconverged/HCI), or a mixture of the two architectures (Mixed).
Figure 3. PowerFlex deployment architectures