
Dell CSM Replication Module – PowerFlex Support
A guest post by Erik Zandboer In the latest release of the Dell CSM modules, “replication” support was added for the PowerFlex storage platform. In this post I’ll be describing […]
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A guest post by Erik Zandboer In the latest release of the Dell CSM modules, “replication” support was added for the PowerFlex storage platform. In this post I’ll be describing […]
As always, we keep updating our CSI and CSM modules, if you are new to CSI, read about it here, if you are new to CSM, read about it here […]
A guest post by Alan NG In the first part of the series, which you can read about here https://volumes.blog/2023/03/06/introducing-dell-powerflex-file-services-part-1/https://volumes.blog/2023/03/06/introducing-dell-powerflex-file-services-part-1/ , we provided an introduction to PowerFlex 4.0 File services, […]
A guest post by Alan NG Background File services have been in existence since the early days of computing, with the first file service introduced in the 1960s, when computers […]
By Kevin Jones Before jumping into the details of Fault Sets, a quick recap on how PowerFlex works (in VERY simple terms). We take servers with locally attached disks, install […]
This post was written as a question I got from a customer, the other day, she was asking if the same CSI interface, will work with KubeVirt. So, what is […]
By Simon Stevens Towards the start of autumn last year, Dell Technologies announced the “Dell Validated Platform for Red Hat Openshift”, a solution that has been jointly validated by both Dell and Red Hat to provide faster time to value for customers (and potential customers) when deploying Red Hat Openshift Cloud Platform onto the modern, flexible, software-defined PowerFlex infrastructure. That […]
A guest post by MATT HOBBS From time to time, we get the question on how can PowerFlex deliver the level of performance and reliability to match that of Fibre Channel fabric. It’s a great question, as in the past there is no doubt that Fibre Channel provided a superior outcome – it was designed for storage traffic! Back in […]
A guest post by Henry Wong & Erik Zandboer I am excited to announce that the PowerStore CSI driver and the Unity XT CSI driver are now available in the Rancher Marketplace. Customers have […]
Before 2022 ended, we released the CSI 2.5 plugins for our storage arrays, you can read all about it here but, as I said before, this was just the beginning.. […]
As usual, we have released, the latest version of our K8s CSI plugins, below, you can see the release notes for each one of the storage platforms CSI Drivers The […]
As part of continuing Dell APEX portfolio momentum, we are announcing that Dell PowerFlex is now available in the AWS Marketplace. This offer delivers customers the mission critical performance, scale, […]
CDM (Copy Data Management) is exploding, analysts predict that most of your data in the data center is derived from copies of your data and as such, we are continuing […]
Our integration with Kubernetes, comes in many ways: vSphere with Tanzu (VCF), Vanilla (Upstream) Kubernetes and, RedHat OpenShift. Each of this platform, represent a great way to deploy Kubernetes, so […]
The foundation of PowerFlex is its software-first design. At the base, it is a software-defined block-storage service enabling a scale-out storage infrastructure using x86 nodes and TCP/IP networking. PowerFlex software […]
In the first part of the series, we covered that ‘Why’ are we releasing the Container Storage Modules (CSM), you can read all about it here and, in the second part of the series, we covered the ‘What’ are we releasing, you can read all about it here. Now, its time to cover the ‘How’, so, as part of the […]