Dell PowerFlex Rack with PowerFlex 3.x Architecture Overview

Introduction

This document describes the high-level design of PowerFlex rack.

The target audience for this document includes customers, sales engineers, field consultants, and advanced services specialists who want to deploy a high-performance, scalable, and flexible infrastructure using PowerFlex rack.

The dvswitch names are for example only and may not match the configured system. Do not change these names or a data unavailable or data lost event may occur.

Dell PowerFlex rack was previously known as Dell VxFlex integrated rack. Similarly, Dell PowerFlex Manager was previously known as Dell VxFlex Manager, and Dell PowerFlex was previously known as Dell VxFlex OS. References in the documentation will be updated over time.

PowerFlex rack architecture is based on Dell PowerEdge R650, R750, R6525, R7525, R640, R740xd, and R840 servers.

PowerFlex Manager provides the management and orchestration functionality for PowerFlex rack. References to PowerFlex Manager in this document apply only if you have a licensed version of PowerFlex Manager. For more information, contact Dell Technologies Sales.

For additional PowerFlex rack documentation, go to PowerFlex rack technical documentation.