PowerFlex is a software-defined infrastructure platform designed to reduce operational and infrastructure complexity, empowering organizations to move faster by delivering flexibility, elasticity, and simplicity with predictable performance and resiliency at scale. The PowerFlex family of software-defined infrastructure provides a foundation that combines compute and high-performance storage resources in a managed unified fabric. PowerFlex offers multiple platform deployment options such as rack, appliance, or ready nodes, all of which provide server SAN, HCI, and storage-only architectures.
Figure 1. PowerFlex overview
PowerFlex provides the flexibility and scale demanded by a range of application deployments, whether they are virtualized, containerized, or on bare metal.
PowerFlex provides the performance and resiliency required by the most demanding enterprises, demonstrating six 9s or greater of mission-critical availability with stable and predictable latency.1
Providing millions of IOPs at submillisecond latency, PowerFlex is ideal for both high-performance applications and for private clouds that want a flexible foundation with synergies into public and hybrid cloud. It is also great for organizations consolidating heterogeneous assets into a single system, with a flexible, scalable architecture that provides the automation to manage both storage and compute infrastructure.
1 Workload performance claims based on internal Dell testing. (Source: IDC Business Value Snapshot for PowerFlex – 2020.)