PowerVault

PowerVault ME5 is built for small and medium businesses that need storage to be simple, affordable, and reliable. It’s easy to set up and manage without requiring deep IT expertise, provides enterprise-class features at an entry-level price, and delivers the dependable performance and data protection small and medium businesses can trust to run critical applications every day.

PowerVault ME5 helps businesses grow by being simple to manage, affordable to scale, fast in performance, and reliable for daily operations. It supports all-flash or hybrid storage to handle increasing workloads, scales up to 8PB without complexity, and integrates easily with virtualization platforms like VMware and Hyper-V. This means businesses can start small, expand on demand, and keep critical applications running smoothly without costly or disruptive upgrades.

Dell PowerVault is a versatile storage solution suitable for small to medium-sized businesses and remote office/branch offices (SMB/ROBO). It supports various workloads including data backup, archive, and production environments.

The current PowerVault model families are ME5200 series primary storage and supported expansion closures and MD series JBOD for direct-attached storage (DAS). ME5 is optimized for high performance and scalability.

PowerVault ME5 arrays boast impressive performance with up to 840K IOPS, 14 Gb/s read, and 11 Gb/s write, making them ideal for demanding data applications.

PowerVault uses ADAPT distributed RAID and 12 Gb SAS expansion, allowing for seamless scalability up to 8 PB without disrupting ongoing operations.

PowerVault supports a range of host protocols including 25 Gb iSCSI, 10 Gb iSCSCI, 32 Gb FC, and 12 Gb SAS. It is compatible with the following operating systems: Windows 2025 (including Hyper-V), Windows 2022 (including Hyper-V), RHEL 9.5, RHEL 8.10, SLES 15, SLES 15 SP6, SLES 12 SP8, VMware 9.0, VMware 8.0 U3.

PowerVault includes all-inclusive software such as thin provisioning, up to 1,024 snapshots and asynchronous replication.

Yes, PowerVault ME5212 is Veeam Ready Repository certified as of July 2025, ensuring seamless integration with leading backup solutions.

Differences between PowerVault models are primarily in storage performance and bandwidth.