PowerVault ME5 is purpose-built and optimised for SAN and DAS workloads. Connecting the PowerVault ME5 to a Dell PowerEdge server to address the challenges of server capacity expansion or to a SAN for flexibility and scalability ensures that business applications will always get high-speed and reliable access to their data – without compromise.

• Direct-attach to Dell PowerEdge servers
• Consolidate SAN storage
• Intelligent Drive Firmware Updates

Keep your valuable information safe with these PowerVault ME5 features:

• Replication: Replicate data to any global location with either ME4 or ME5 target arrays and support for mirroring and thin-provisioned pools
• Snapshots: Easily recover files after accidental deletion or alteration with Re-direct-on-Write snapshot copies
• Virtual Disk Copy (VDC): Enable quick and seamless virtual disk relocation and disk-based backup and recovery with a full, replicated copy of source data
• KMIP: Provide standardised communication between encryption systems and key management systems
• Self-encrypting drives (SEDs): Render data useless to unauthorised users with drive-level encryption, even if the drive has been removed from the enclosure

PowerVault ME5, with faster Intel^® Xeon^® processors, dual-active controllers and a robust operating environment delivers:

• Up to 800K IOPs performance
• 14GB/s Sequential Read & 11GB/s Sequential Write throughput
• Up to 8PB maximum raw capacity (Firmware is designed to support up to 8PB)
• 12Gb SAS backend for rapid capacity expansion

Simple to navigate and configure, PowerVault ME5 is easy to provision and manage from anywhere, anytime with an intelligent, HTML5 web-based GUI. PowerVault Manager also helps alert you to identify problems and identify and resolve issues quicker.