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PowerFlex is a software-defined infrastructure platform, offering unparalleled flexibility, scalability, and performance predictability. PowerFlex offers native asynchronous replication, enriching its overall enterprise storage services. Customers can gain robust disaster recovery capabilities and can leverage replication for various use cases, including resource-intensive analytics workloads.
Replication is used to recover from a physical or logical disaster, migrate or test data at a remote site, or to offload backup operations. Replication can be faster and simpler with PowerFlex.
The cloud native architecture of PowerFlex enables modern applications to take advantage of containerization and orchestration. Kubernetes can manage complex environments with capabilities like autoscaling, scheduling, load balancing, resource monitoring, and managing containerized applications.
Dell Container Storage Modules (CSM) seamlessly integrate with Kubernetes, extending enterprise-grade storage features to cloud-native stateful applications. CSM simplifies the management and grants developers streamlined access to storage services that include provisioning, replication, observability, and application mobility.
CSM replication in Dell PowerFlex empowers robust replication and disaster recovery functionalities within Kubernetes based clusters. This solution highlights the capabilities of the CSM replication module. This solution also describes how CSM facilitates data replication between two datacenter sites that are each configured with two-layer PowerFlex deployment with Red Hat OpenShift clusters as compute, enabling uniform movement of vital applications during planned or unplanned transitions.