This DVD design guide presented the conceptual and architectural details of the Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure with Dell PowerFlex software-defined storage integration. It first discussed the use cases that are best served by this external storage solution - including running a highly diverse collection of workload profiles. These workloads can be mission critical to your organization and require greater levels of performance and scalability. This solution also supports linear scaling of storage resources independently from Azure Stack HCI compute and S2D.

This guide also contained the steps that Dell Engineering took to test and validate the integration in the Dell labs. The specific compute, storage, and network requirements were shared. For step-by-step instructions for configuring APEX Cloud Platform for Azure with PowerFlex, please refer to the DVD implementation guide.