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The PowerVault ME5 is the new gold standard for entry storage that is purpose-built and optimized for high-value SAN and DAS virtualized workloads. Available in 2U or dense 5U base systems, the low-cost PowerVault ME5 simplifies the challenges of server capacity expansion and small-scale SAN consolidation with up to 336 drives or 6PB capacity. It also comes with all-inclusive software, incredible performance, and built-in simplicity with an HTML5 management UI, PowerVault Manager. Connecting PowerVault ME5 storage to a PowerEdge server or to a SAN ensures that business applications will get high-speed and reliable access to their data — without compromise.
Product features include the following:
Simplicity: A web-based management UI (HTML5), installs and configures in 25 minutes, and easily deploys in 2U or 5U systems.
Performance: Compared to its PowerVault ME4 predecessor, PowerVault ME5 storage packs a lot of power and scale with Intel® processors. The PowerVault ME5 processing power delivers incredible performance gains over the ME4 Series, as well as increased capacity and bandwidth.
Connectivity: Robust and flexible connectivity starting with a 12Gb SAS back-end interface, and a front-end interface options including four 16/32Gb FC ports per controller, four 10Gb iSCSI ports per controller (BaseT), four 10/25 Gb iSCSI (Optical), or four 12Gb SAS ports per controller.
Scalability: Both 2U and 5U base systems are available, with the 2U system supporting either 12 or 24 drives and the 5U system supporting 84 drives. Each of the 2U (ME5012 and ME5024) and 5U (ME5084) base systems supports optional expansion enclosures of 12, 24, and 84 drives, allowing you to use up to 336 drives. Drive mixing is also allowed.
All-inclusive software: PowerVault ME5 software provides volume copy, snapshots, IP/FC replication, VMware® VCenter Server® and VMware Site Recovery Manager™ integration, SSD read cache, thin provisioning, three-level tiering, ADAPT (distributed RAID), and controller-based encryption (SEDs) with internal key management.
Management: An integrated HTML5 web-based management interface, PowerVault Manager is included.
For more information, see the PowerVault ME5 product page.