Design Guide – Consuming PowerFlex Block Storage from Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure

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  Preface

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  What's New?

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  Solution Introduction
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  Overview

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  Architecture Concepts and Requirements
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  Architecture concepts overview
  • APEX Cloud Platform for Azure
  • PowerFlex software-defined storage
  • Data mobility
  • Data encryption
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  Solution requirements
  • MC node and PowerFlex node hardware requirements
  • Networking requirements
  • Deployment model requirements
  • Day 2 operations

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  Verification
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  Lab validation
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  Azure Stack HCI cluster node networking
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  PowerFlex cluster node networking
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  Physical networking
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  Node configurations
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  Management software

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  Summary and additional resources
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  Summary
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  We value your feedback
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  Additional resources