PowerFlex is an enterprise-class, software-defined block and file storage solution that is deployed, managed, and supported as a single system. Highly flexible and scalable, PowerFlex allows you to have a mixture of two-layer (independent compute and storage), single-layer hyperconverged configurations, storage-only, PowerFlex file services, and other mixed architectures within a single deployment.
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With PowerFlex, resources such as storage and compute can be scaled together or separately, non-disruptively, and in small increments. The system can scale from a few nodes to hundreds in a cluster, linearly scaling I/O performance and throughput. In addition, PowerFlex supports a broad set of operating environments that include multiple hypervisors, bare-metal operating systems, container management tools, and PowerFlex file services capabilities (NFS, CIFS, and additional file services offerings).
PowerFlex offers integrated product options. PowerFlex appliance is a scalable system with flexible form factors that comes preconfigured and validated for fast, easy deployment. PowerFlex rack is a rack-scale system that is manufactured, managed, supported, and sustained as one system for single-end-to-end life cycle support. PowerFlex custom node is a validated engineering solution that provides nearly all the flexibility of the PowerFlex software offering.
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