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PowerStore provides the option of running workloads directly on the PowerStore appliance as virtual machines or running workloads on external hosts and presenting storage through block or file interfaces.
Before you create objects or deploy workloads on PowerStore, we recommend reviewing the following guides for best practices and tuning recommendations. We recommend applying these changes before deploying workloads because some changes require a reboot of the PowerStore appliance nodes. For resiliency, ensure that external hosts are connected through multiple paths, or multipath, to the PowerStore appliance.