EMC PowerVault

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Description

Simple, fast and affordable

Entry storage purpose-built and optimized for SAN/DAS

The, simple, fast and affordable Dell PowerVault ME5 storage platforms are optimized to run a variety of mixed workload applications – physical and virtual – for small to medium size businesses.

Whether you need to consolidate your block storage, support applications without the need for low latency flash and NVMe, take advantage of intelligent data management or scale capacity to keep pace with data growth, then PowerVault ME5 is ready to meet your growing business needs. The flexibility of PowerVault ME5 offers multiple protocols, supports a wide range of drive types and capacities, scales up to 8PB1 capacity, validated with Dell PowerEdge Servers (16G ready) and is delivered to you with all-inclusive software – so you’ll have the needed data services to store, manage, and protect your data.

 

Using fast Intel Xeon processors, Dell PowerVault ME5 storage implements a dual-active controller architecture, 12GB/sec read and 10GB/sec write throughput and uses a 12Gb SAS backend protocol for rapid capacity expansion.

PowerVault ME5 Specifications

Chassis Overview

Chassis format

All-in-one: dual controllers, internal drive bays, networking and with expansion options

Rack size

2U or 5U

 

Controllers

2 hot-swappable per chassis (dual-active) Single/dual controller support for 2U models

Dual controller support only for 5U model

Processor

Intel® Xeon Processor

 

Internal storage

ME5012: 12 x 3.5” drive bays (2.5” drive carriers supported)

ME5024: 24 x 2.5” drive bays

ME5084: 84x 3.5” drive bays (2.5” drivecarriers supported)

System memory

16GB per controller (32GB total)

Expansion Capacity

 

Expansion enclosures

ME412: 12 x 3.5” drive bays (12Gb SAS)

ME424: 24 x 2.5” drive bays (12Gb SAS)

ME484: 84 x 3.5” drive bays (12Gb SAS)

 

Min/Max drive count

ME5012: 2/264 ME5024: 2/276 ME5084: 28/336

 

 

Max raw capacity1

ME5012: 2.40PB (with 9xME412 expansion) | ME5012: 1.89PB (with 9xME424 expansion) ME5024: 2.34PB (with 9xME412 expansion) | ME5012: 1.83PB (with 9xME424 expansion) ME5012: 5.28PB (with 3xME484 expansion) | ME5024: 5.22PB (with 3xME484 expansion) ME5084: 6.72PB (with 3xME484 expansion)

NAS Support

Supported with NX Series Windows NAS appliance

 

 

Storage media

SAS and NL-SAS drives; different drive types, transfer rates, rotational speeds can be mixed in the same system:

·    NLSAS 7.2K 3.5” – 4TB, 8TB, 12TB, 16TB, 16TB FIPS, 20TB

·    SAS 10K 2.5” – 1.2TB, 2.4TB, 2.4TB FIPS

·    SSD – 960GB RI, 1.6TB MU, 1.92TB, 3.84TB, 3.84TB FIPS, 7.68TB RI

·    SDD and HDD: FIPS-certified SEDs

Network, Expansion Enclosure and I/O

Host interface

FC, iSCSI (optical or BaseT), SAS

Max 32Gb FC ports

8 per array (support auto-negotiate to 16Gb)

Max 25Gb iSCSI ports

 

8 SFP+ or SFP28 ports per array

Max 10Gb iSCSI ports

 

8 BaseT ports per array (only support auto negotiate to 1Gb)

Max 12Gb SAS ports

8 12Gb SAS ports

Max management ports

 

2 per array (1Gb BASE-T)

Disk expansion protocol

 

12Gb SAS

 

 

 

Disk interface expansion ports

 

2 x 12Gb SAS (wide-Port) per array (1 port per controller) Up to 9 2U expansion enclosures per 2U base array

Up to 3 5U expansion enclosures per 2U base array Up to 3 5U expansion enclosures per 5U base array

Functional

Array configurations

All-flash, hybrid flash, HDD only arrays

Storage format

Native block-level SAN or DAS

Data Optimization

Auto-tiering

Up to 3 primary (media-based) tiers

RAID support

RAID 1, 5, 6, 10, or ADAPT RAID; any combination of RAID levels can exist in single array

ADAPT RAID

Distributed erasure coding that reduces rebuild times when drive failures occur

Thin provisioning

Active by default on all volumes, operates at full performance across all features

Snapshots

1024 maximum re-direct-on-write snapshots per array

Data Mobility and Migration

 

Replication

Asynchronous replication via FC or iSCSI – ME4 to ME5; ME5 to ME4; ME5 to ME5 Target/source relationships may be one-to-many or many-to-one

Volume copy

Copy complete standalone volumes

Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, Security

Business continuity

VMware Site Recovery Manager

 

Data-at-rest encryption

Self-encrypting drives (SEDs) in SSD or HDD formats Full Disk Encryption (FDE) based on AES-256 Drives certified to FIPS 140-2 Level 2

Key manager

Internal controller key management

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