What are two primary benefits of the PowerFlex software-defined architecture?

PowerFlex is engineered for high-performance, massive-scale environments.

High Scalability (Option B): PowerFlex utilizes a scale-out architecture. Unlike traditional dual-controller arrays where adding capacity often doesn't increase processing power, PowerFlex allows you to add x86 nodes to the cluster. Each node adds both Storage Capacity and I/O Processing Power. This results in linear scalability—if 3 nodes provide 100k IOPS, 6 nodes will provide roughly 200k IOPS, scaling up to thousands of nodes.

High Performance (Option D): PowerFlex uses a mechanism called Mesh Mirroring. It divides data into small chunks and distributes them across all drives in the storage pool. When a host reads or writes data, it engages the I/O resources of every node in the cluster simultaneously. This parallelism eliminates bottlenecks, making it ideal for high-throughput databases (like Oracle RAC or SQL Server) and mission-critical applications requiring sub-millisecond latency.