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Part Number: PowerFlex-Series

Dell PowerFlex Software-Defined Infrastructure Platform

Dell PowerFlex is a scalable, high-performance software-defined infrastructure solution designed to power mission-critical workloads. It combines compute and high-performance storage in a unified platform, delivering exceptional flexibility, resilience, and control for modern data center environments.

Product Details

Dell PowerFlex delivers unparalleled agility by disaggregating compute and storage resources, allowing independent scaling and unmatched workload optimization. Whether deployed as an appliance, rack-scale system, or as software-only, PowerFlex enables rapid infrastructure modernization across private cloud, databases, containers, and analytics platforms.

Main Features:

  • Software-Defined Flexibility

  • Linear Scalability of Performance & Capacity

  • High-Availability Architecture

  • Cloud-Ready and Kubernetes Integration

Processor Options

Up to two Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors (4th Gen, model dependent)

High core count for compute-intensive workloads

Operating System

PowerFlex Manager (for orchestration and lifecycle management)

VMware vSphere or Red Hat OpenShift support

Supports bare metal, virtualized, or containerized environments

Memory

DIMM Speed

Up to 4800 MT/s

DIMM Speed

Up to 4800 MT/s

Memory Type

RDIMM

Memory Module Slots

Up to 4800 MT/s

Storage

Front Bays

Up to 24 x 2.5-inch SAS/NVMe (HDD/SSD) — max 368.64 TB

Up to 32 x EDSFF E3.S Gen5 NVMe (SSD) — max 245.76 TB

 

Rear Bays

Up to 4 x 2.5-inch SAS/NVMe (SSD) — max 61.44 TB

Up to 4 x E3.S NVMe Gen5 — max 30.72 TB

Storage Controllers

Internal Controllers

PowerFlex SDS (software-defined storage) — no traditional RAID controller

External Controllers

Not applicable (storage managed via software-defined architecture)

Internal Boot

Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem (BOSS-N1)

Dual M.2 NVMe SSDs in RAID1 configuration

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FAQs

PowerFlex is ideal for organizations running high-performance, mission-critical workloads such as databases (Oracle, SQL Server), analytics, and container-based applications. Its software-defined flexibility ensures IT can scale and adapt quickly.

Unlike traditional hyperconverged infrastructure, PowerFlex disaggregates compute and storage, allowing independent scaling of either resource, delivering better workload optimization and cost efficiency.

PowerFlex can be deployed as:

PowerFlex Appliance (fully integrated and validated),

PowerFlex Rack (engineered system with factory integration), and

PowerFlex Custom Nodes (software-only for flexible hardware integration)