The Dell PowerVault ME Series SAN/DAS Storage Series is optimized to run a variety of mixed workload applications - physical and virtual - for small businesses.
Based on the family of Intel processors, Dell PowerVault ME Series storage implements a block architecture with VMware virtualization integration and concurrent support for native iSCSI, Fibre Channel, and SAS protocols. Each system leverages dual storage processors (single storage processor systems are available) and a full 12Gb SAS back-end. Additional storage capacity is added via Disk Array Enclosures (DAEs) while Distributed RAID (ADAPT) delivers faster drive re-build times. And all ME Series arrays are managed by an integrated HTML5 web-based GUI.
Frame loss was observed during testing on the ME platform as tier 1 storage.