The Dell PowerVault ME storage area network (SAN)/ direct-attached storage (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.
Dell recommends using ME series platforms for:
- Small implementations
- Archive storage as a second tier
- Installations that include noncritical cameras where some video frame loss is acceptable during storage recovery activities, such as disk rebuilds and controller outages that are required for maintenance upgrades or failures
Behavior can vary per video management software product and implementation decisions, such as selected infrastructure hardware, camera setup, and so forth.
The ME5084 was configured using disk groups with a 512k chunk size and with an ADAPT RAID configuration. The storage pool per controller contained:
- 1 performance tier disk group with 6 SSD disk in RAID 6
- 3 archive tier disk groups with 6 NLSAS disk in a group.