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Dell EMC PowerFlex Rack Architecture Overview
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System components

  • PowerFlex rack contains compute, network, storage, virtualization, and management resources.

    The following table shows supported and optional components of PowerFlex rack :

    Resource Components
    Compute PowerFlex R650/R750/R6525/R640/R740xd/R840 nodes
    Network

    Management switch options:

    • Dell EMC PowerSwitch S4148T-ON
    • Cisco Nexus 92348GC-X
    Management aggregation switch option:
    • Cisco Nexus 93180YC-FX

    Aggregation switch options:

    • Cisco Nexus 9336C-FX2
    • Cisco Nexus 9364C-GX
    • Dell EMC PowerSwitch S5232F-ON

    Access switch options:

    • Cisco Nexus 93240YC-FX2
    • Cisco Nexus 93180YC-FX
    • Dell EMC PowerSwitch S5248F-ON

    Spine switch options:

    • Cisco Nexus 9336C-FX2
    • Cisco Nexus 9364C-GX

    Leaf switch options:

    • Cisco Nexus 93240YC-FX2
    • Cisco Nexus 9336C-FX2
    • Cisco Nexus 9364C-GX

    Border-leaf switch option:

    • Cisco Nexus 9336C-FX2

    Customer access switch (optional ACI switches Dell provided in a dual network installation)

    • Cisco Nexus 93240YC-FX2
    • Cisco Nexus 93180YC-EX
    Storage PowerFlex software-defined storage
    Virtualization VMware vSphere ESXi
    Management PowerFlex Manager software
    Management controller

    PowerFlex management controller 1.0 based on vSAN

    PowerFlex management controller 2.0 based on PowerFlex

    Data encryption (optional) Dell EMC CloudLink or self-encrypting drives (SEDs)