PowerFlex appliance contains compute, network, storage, data encryption, virtualization, and management resources.
The following table shows the supported and optional components of PowerFlex appliance :
| Resource | Components |
| Compute | PowerFlex appliance R650, R750, R6525, R640, R740xd, and R840 |
| Network | Customer supplied switches, or the following switches are also supported:
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| Storage | PowerFlex |
| Virtualization | VMware vSphere ESXi |
| Management | PowerFlex Manager , VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) |
| PowerFlex management controller (optional) | PowerFlex management controller 2.0 based on PowerFlex |
| Data encryption (optional) | Dell EMC CloudLink or self-encrypting drives (SEDs) |