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ME5 storage snapshots and storage replication support Hyper-V environments and workloads:
ME5 snapshots are space-efficient as they consume no additional storage space unless they are mapped to a host or VM and new data is written.
For general use cases and best practices regarding the configuration of snapshots and replication, see the Dell PowerVault ME5 Administrator’s Guide at Dell Technologies Support.
ME5 storage snapshots and replication allow administrators to do the following in a Hyper-V environment: