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PowerVault ME5 Series storage is the new gold standard for entry storage that is purpose-built and optimized for SAN and DAS virtualized workloads. Available in 2U or dense 5U base systems, the affordable PowerVault ME5 simplifies the challenges of server capacity expansion and small-scale SAN consolidation with up to 336 drives or 8 PB1 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 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 Series predecessor, PowerVault ME5 packs a lot of power, bandwidth, and scale with faster Intel® Xeon® processors. The PowerVault ME5 processing power delivers incredible performance gains over PowerVault ME4, plus increased capacity, bandwidth, and drive count.
Connectivity: PowerVault ME5 goes to the next level with robust and flexible connectivity starting with a 12 Gb SAS back-end interface. Front-end interface options include the following:
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 base systems (PowerVault ME5012 and PowerVault ME5024) and the 5U PowerVault ME5084 base system support optional expansion enclosures of 12, 24, and 84 drives. This expansion capability allows you to use up to 336 drives total with the 5U system. PowerVault ME5 also allows drive mixing.
All-inclusive software: PowerVault ME5 software provides volume copy, snapshots, IP/FC replication, VMware vCenter Server, and VMware Site Recovery Manager integration. It also provides an SSD read cache, thin provisioning, three-level tiering, ADAPT (distributed RAID), and controller-based encryption (SEDs) with internal key management.
Management: PowerVault ME 5 includes an integrated HTML5 web-based management interface, PowerVault Manager. Both OpenManage Enterprise and Nagios management utilities support PowerVault ME5.
For more information, see the Dell PowerVault ME5 product page at www.dell.com/powervault.
1 PowerVault ME5 firmware is designed to support up to 8 PB when higher-capacity drives are available for use.