The minimal supported configuration for a PowerFlex Manager virtual appliance is the "Standard" deployment size. According to official Dell documentation, this configuration requires 36 vCPUs, 128 GB of RAM, and 600 GB of disk space. This ensures the appliance has adequate computational and storage resources to perform its management, orchestration, and monitoring functions for a PowerFlex environment. Deploying with fewer resources than this specified minimum is not supported and can lead to performance degradation and operational instability.

1. Dell PowerFlex Manager 4.1.x Deployment Guide. (March 2024). Page 13

Table 3

"PowerFlex Manager virtual appliance requirements". The table explicitly lists "36" for vCPU and "600" for Disk (GB) for the "Standard" deployment size.

2. Dell PowerFlex Manager 4.0 Spec Sheet. (December 2022). Page 2

Table "PowerFlex Manager virtual appliance requirements". This document corroborates the requirements

stating 36 vCPUs and 600 GB disk for the "Standard" configuration

which supports up to 64 nodes.