Dell Technologies PowerFlex Technical Overview and Product Architecture

PowerFlex is the newest member of Dell Technologies' "powered-up" storage portfolio. This software-defined storage solution empowers enterprises to harness the power of software and embrace change while achieving consistent predictable outcomes. It offers massive performance, unprecedented flexibility, extreme scalability and enterprise performance while significantly simplifying IT operations.

In this session, Dell Technologies exposes the inner workings of the new PowerFlex high-end software-defined storage offering. They discuss data layout in pools of abstracted storage resources, automatically allocating and balancing storage. PowerFlex has a "software-first" architecture, with a storage data server (SDS), storage data client (SDC), and metadata manager (MDM), enabling multiple deployment architectures, including hyper-converged architecture (HCI). PowerFlex achieves high I/O parallelism and resiliency thanks to this architecture while still offering enterprise-class storage features including replication and high availability.

This video was recorded as part of Tech Field Day Presents Dell Technologies: Power Up the Portfolio on June 25, 2020. For more information, visit https://techfieldday.com/event/powerup/ or https://delltechnologies.com/powerflex/