PowerVault ME5212 Resources

PowerVault ME5200 Spec Sheet

Greater performance and scalability for a diverse set of high-value small to medium-sized business workloads

PowerVault ME5 is a block-level entry storage platform with a dual-active controller architecture — optimized for SAN and DAS — ideal for high-performance computing, databases, small-scale VDI, security workloads and much more.

All-inclusive software simplicity

PowerVault ME5 provides features that simplify tasks such as system installation, configuration, and serviceability enabling IT generalists to manage resources more efficiently and focus on the bigger picture.


Intuitive web-based (HTML5) management
Simple to order with all-inclusive software
Configurable in minutes
Easily expandable
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All-inclusive software innovation

PowerVault ME5 storage arrays deliver all the software you’ll need to store, manage and protect your data:

  • ADAPT (Distributed RAID): Improved data protection functionality that delivers faster drive rebuild times
  • Thin Provisioning: Allocate and consume physical storage capacity as needed in disk pools
  • Snapshots: Easily recover data with point-in-time copies  
  • Replication: Replicate data to any global location and PowerVault ME storage system
  • Volume Copy: Enables seamless volume relocation and disk-based backup and recovery
  • SSD Read Cache: Increase execution speed of applications by caching previously read data
  • Auto-tiering: Optimizes data performance with less expense
  • KMIP: Provide standardized communication between encryption systems and key management systems
  • Intelligent Drive Updates: Update drives without interrupting workloads or diverting IT resources to manage upgrades
  • Virtualization integration: Integrate ME5 arrays with VMware vSphere and vCenter SRM and Microsoft Hyper-V

Optimized for SAN and DAS

PowerVault ME5 is purpose-built and optimized 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

Protect your data

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 standardized communication between encryption systems and key management systems.
  • Self-encrypting drives (SEDs): Render data useless to unauthorized users with drive-level encryption, even if the drive has been removed from the enclosure.

Greater performance and capacity

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.

Simplified management

Simplified management

Easily configure, provision and manage PowerVault ME5 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.

Dell AIOps

Dell AIOps is Dell’s cloud-based AIOps application that uses telemetry, machine learning, and predictive analytics to provide PowerVault ME5 proactive health notifications, remediation advice, capacity projections, reclaimable storage identification, and more. Dell AIOps is available with Dell ProSupport and ProSupport Plus services for Dell infrastructure systems at no additional cost.

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Speed data recovery with ADAPT

PowerVault ME5 ADAPT software protects data by dynamically distributing it across pools of drives. In the event of a drive failure, ADAPT will identify the critical data and dynamically rebalance the data so the array can return to an optimal state faster than it would in the typical RAID environment.

Saves time and money
Faster drive rebuilds
Supports up to 1PB capacity or up to 128 drives
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ME5212

• Up to 2.88 PB capacity with 9x U expansion enclosures
• Up to 6.33 PB capacity with 3x SU expansion enclosures
• Multiple SAN/DAS protocols: SAS, FC, iSCSI
• Architecture with two active controllers
• SAS backend with 12 Gbit/s
• All premium software features included
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