Dell PowerVault ME5024

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Description
Specifications
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.

Dell PowerVault ME5 base system and expansion models

The two non-dense ME5 base arrays start at 2U and the dense ME5 array starts at 5U. The base models all support dual-active controllers with each controller including 16GB of memory.

Optional ME5 expansion enclosures let you scale up to 336 drives or 8PB. PowerVault ME412 and ME424 expansion enclosures can only be used with either ME5012 or ME5024 base arrays. The ME484 dense expansion enclosure is supported behind any of the ME5 base arrays. A variety of SSD, 10K and NLSAS drives (including FIPS SEDs) are available

Warranty

The equipment and software are purchased through the manufacturer's authorized channel

All purchased IT solutions are covered by the official manufacturer's warranty

All products are eligible for service support and maintenance in accordance with the manufacturer's corporate policies

Shipping

The LWCOM office is located in Dubai, Tameem House Building, Floor 25, Barsha Heights (Tecom)

The company delivers products across the entire territory of the United Arab Emirates

Delivery is carried out at the expense of LWCOM

Rack size
2U
Processor
Intel® Xeon Processor
Internal storage ME5024:
24 x 2.5” drive bays
Syst. Memory per ctrl
8GB for controller and 16GB for cache (24GB total)
Min/Max drive count ME5024:
2/276
Max raw capacity per base ME5024:
Up to 184TB
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, 22TB, 24TB
  • SAS 10K 2.5” – 1.2TB, 2.4TB, 2.4TB FIPS
  • SSD – 1.6TB MU, 1.92TB, 3.84TB, 3.84TB FIPS, 7.68TB R
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)
RAID support
RAID 1, 5, 6, 10, or ADAPT RAID; any combination of RAID levels can exist in single array
Supported host OS
  • Windows 2022, 2019 and 2016
  • RHEL 9.2, 8.8, 8.2 and 7.8
  • SLES 15.2 and 12.5
  • VMware 8.0 U1, 7.0 and 6.7
  • Citrix XenServer 8.x and 7.x